Results 24,501-24,520 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Strategy (23 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if officials in her Department have a role in monitoring developments on the concentrated effort of China opening its markets and dominance in world trade; and if there will be increased resources allocated to Ireland's agencies in China. [45044/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staffing vacancies in his Department. [47899/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the number of advertisements for staff recruitment his Department has. [49417/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. In June last, he informed the House that he intended to study staffing and roles in the Department before taking decisions about priorities. Will he indicate what happened to that process? When we discussed this topic last week, the Taoiseach indicated he did not know how many staff were assigned to specific policy areas. I hope it can be assumed that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: Go away.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: In June, the Taoiseach stated he would carry out such an examination.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: There was no controversy surrounding the strategic communications unit in June.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister Rajoy recently. [48168/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the latest British-Irish Council meeting. [49072/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the group includes questions on the British-Irish Council meeting, engagement with the British Prime Minister and engagement with the Prime Minister of Spain. It is very difficult to take all those together. I do not know what logic possessed someone to group them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is difficult to take three separate questions in one follow-up question. On the British-Irish Council and the division between Governments on core objectives, the mounting evidence is that we are in the middle of an unprecedented crisis. Over the past week, it has become absolutely clear that there is no effective working relationship between the two Governments. The extent to which...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: About two years ago, after the general election of February 2016 there were many talks about different policy issues. The Independents were talking with various parties and we met with the officials in the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten's Department, to discuss the roll-out of broadband. That followed a general election in which Fine Gael made...
- Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is a very serious issue.
- Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: I do not accept the Taoiseach's reply. No one has ever said the Tánaiste had a part in the legal strategy. We do not know who sent the email or to whom it was sent. Was it sent to the Secretary General? It only turned up last Thursday. Why the top of it was sheared off and why references to individuals were pulled from it I do not know. It states in the last paragraph "and I...
- Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: I also spoke to Maurice McCabe. I referred to that yesterday. The content of what he is saying should alarm the Taoiseach even more because what is at the heart of this is a terrible vista: that an appalling set of actions were afoot to undermine this man's credibility and character. It is simply not good enough to say a Minister in charge of a portfolio relating to the most explosive...
- Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: May we have the full list of recipients?
- Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: Last evening the Tánaiste answered questions on her knowledge of the adversarial approach of An Garda Síochána against Sergeant Maurice McCabe at the O'Higgins commission of investigation. The Tánaiste also published the email of May 2015. That email is damning. The Tánaiste was notified by email in May 2015 of this adversarial legal strategy. That email should...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts Data (22 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 97. To ask the Taoiseach the external contracts his Department has. [49418/17]