Results 24,361-24,380 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I take the point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: So it is a partisan view.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Tomorrow there will be statements on Europe and we can go into the issue in more detail then. However, as the Council President, Donald Tusk, noted, the first phase was the easy part and those who say the key issues are definitely settled are clearly fooling themselves as there is much work to be done in phase 2. Does a definition of "frictionless border" exist? Will the Taoiseach indicate...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but the Good Friday Agreement underpinned the rights of people to Irish citizenship, which in turn underpinned their European citizenship rights, which facilitates what was agreed last Friday. It could be argued that had the Governments in which the Taoiseach served showed half as much interest in Northern Ireland, then we might not have the deadlock and lack of co-operation we...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: May I speak?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's notes will probably tell him that last year his predecessor informed the Seanad that the parliamentary liaison unit had been established as a "catalyst" for improved communication between Ministers and Opposition spokespersons and their teams. That was the original idea of the parliamentary liaison unit and the Taoiseach's predecessor, in the context of the confidence and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Harty. Are they the Independent Members who are being helped or assisted by the liaison unit? We know that in recent weeks other Deputies did not get the information they looked for in parliamentary questions. If this parliamentary liaison unit was working effectively, as originally intended, to help communications between the House and the Executive we might not have had all the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I thought the Taoiseach had announced that he was doing a review.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Should the Departments not be doing that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Would it be possible to devote 30 minutes to those questions?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Yes because they cover Brexit and Northern Ireland and many other things in between.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he has written to Prime Minister May since he requested a written commitment by the British on the way in which trade would continue here after Northern Ireland has left the customs union and Single Market as a result of Brexit. [50533/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister May regarding Northern Ireland recently. [50534/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister May since 29 November 2017 in respect of the Brexit divorce bill and the upcoming European Council meeting. [51710/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if there were discussions regarding the future of east-west relations post Brexit when he was speaking with Prime Minister May. [51994/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the contact he or his officials had with Prime Minister May of her officials over the first weekend in December 2017 prior to the time when the EU-UK deal was nearly finalised. [52907/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he or his officials blocked the DUP from seeing the final texts of the EU-UK deal. [52912/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversations between Prime Minister May and DUP leader Arlene Foster since 4 December 2017 on the draft EU-UK deal on phase 1 of Brexit talks. [53225/17]
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am glad somebody spoke to him because he did not turn up last night.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Last night's edition of "RTÉ Investigates" outlined how the criminal justice system, particularly in the District Court, is very poor in terms of dealing with drink-driving offences, particularly regarding the progressing of warrants and summonses, the number of loopholes that are contained in the 22 different Road Traffic Acts and the number of people who get off completely and people...