Results 25,161-25,180 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. It is fair to say companies headquartered in the United States employ tens of thousands of Irish people directly and indirectly. They are major contributors to our economy and wider society. That is why it is important that for decades, taoisigh and Ministers have made it a policy to visit regularly and maintain contact with these companies at the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: I generally agree with what is said about the programme for Government in respect of housing, in terms of the language contained therein compared with the actual implementation. The local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, has not worked. I understand only seven houses benefitted from the repair and relief initiative. A series of initiatives over the past two years have had...
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government promises to provide the modern technology and resources necessary to detect and investigate crimes and to provide an effective rural policing plan that enhances visibility. For the past two years, Deputy Marc MacSharry has been raising consistently the appalling sub-standard nature of Sligo Garda station, which is the regional headquarters for the Border...
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: I need to respond. First, on the idea of referring to the Business Committee, there is no commitment from the Government side that it has any inclination or wish to engage in any Dáil debate on the issue or for the Tánaiste to speak in any capacity. It is very clear from the replies that people want to invoke the tribunal to avoid any discussion in the House or any questions. I...
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: One can mislead inadvertently.
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: It will be a very brief intervention. Given the lack of transparency and the fact that we have not really got answers to questions that we asked during Leaders' Questions both last week and this week on the adversarial approach during the O'Higgins commission of investigation and when the Tánaiste and the Department of Justice and Equality became aware of it, a number of us asked that...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: This is very serious stuff.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste spoke to the Taoiseach last week. The point I made was that the Dáil had been misled. There is no question about that. Misleading information was given to the Dáil. I am not saying that it was deliberately misled, but it was misled because we were given clear information that the Minister and the Department only knew a year later regarding a row with the...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach can offer.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach could start with-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----the Tánaiste's response at 1 p.m. today-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----concerning a criminal charge about something that had never happened.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: Far from upholding the integrity of Maurice McCabe and offering the highest level of protection, which the Tánaiste said she would do, by her acquiescence and incuriosity on this issue, the Government essentially remains complicit from beginning to end in this sordid affair regarding the undermining of Maurice McCabe.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: I did not use the word "deliberately".
- Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: Last week in the Dáil I asked the Taoiseach a number of questions relating to the knowledge of the Tánaiste, while she was Minister for Justice and Equality, and of her Department of the adversarial legal strategy of the Garda Commissioner during the O'Higgins commission of investigation. In May 2014, the Tánaiste, who was then the Minister for Justice and Equality, stated...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Seanad Reform (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 91. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's statement of strategy on implementing in full the Manning report on Seanad Éireann; and the status of same. [48744/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 92. To ask the Taoiseach the detail the director and staff in the strategic communications unit sought and were provided with when they consulted with their counterparts in the UK and the Netherlands regarding strategic communications; the format the consultation took; and if meetings took place. [48745/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 93. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the six procurement contracts issued in respect of the strategic communications unit; and the status of same. [48746/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (21 Nov 2017)
Micheál Martin: 94. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee under which the remit of the strategic communication unit falls. [48747/17]