Results 24,581-24,600 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Staff (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is in a letter. On a point of clarification, the Secretary General wrote to me. I received the letter, which details the staffing arrangements for the special communications unit, SCU, yesterday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Staff (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach picked and appointed the director.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Staff (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: What is the problem? I just said 11 and the Taoiseach seems to be-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: This is a Parliament, not North Korea. Come on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is amazing how consultants-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: We will move on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: This is not good enough.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Staff (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department that are working on Brexit specific issues. [47900/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Staff (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. For the last year and a half, we have been arguing very strongly for a step change in the numbers we have working on the Brexit issue, in particular, and the future of the European Union. The Taoiseach has indicated that there are 25 full-time equivalent staff in the new amalgamated unit dealing with Northern Ireland, the European Union and, I take it,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Staff (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: Yes. There are seven already, in addition to an administrator and the director, with four more staff members to be recruited. It illustrates that this is a very rapidly growing unit whereas Brexit is the overriding issue which faces the country. Has the Taoiseach recruited any sectoral expertise to the Department to address Brexit issues of trade, customs, agrifood and economics? In an...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Staff (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: I understand it is fluid, but can the Taoiseach give an indication?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: That was in all our manifestos. All parties had that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: So it is back to normal.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: But all the commentary-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is wrong. We wanted to transfer to a HSE budget.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: We do not agree with-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: Everything is a negative-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is presenting all the negatives.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: Whereas, in principle, the Government says that it is in favour of Sláintecare, reading between the lines, I do not get a sense that the Government is totally committed to Sláintecare at all. The Taoiseach's reply confirms that to me, since he says there is further work to be done on costings and implementation which is code for me for slowing down the implementation of...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: Next year.