Results 2,701-2,720 of 49,960 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Senator is showing a latter-day-----
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Perhaps it is from in his days as Attorney General. I do not either; there is no point. There is no issue with the principles.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: There has been a very sensible discussion of these issues. I refer to creating the position of the CHOD and joining the three services together in terms of a joint services approach with each having its head or chief of service. Then, we would have a vice CHOD as well in terms of the upper structure. The issues that will ultimately remain to be determined, which is the edifice,...
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Senator will see that when the Bill is published.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is an executive function to draft a Bill. Senator McDowell knows that as well as anybody.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Senator does. Come on.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is exactly the point. It is far more transparent today.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I told the House what we agreed. In fairness, I outlined the broad direction of travel. Everybody knows it. The Commission on the Defence Forces was not the Legislature but it gave the broad outline of what would transpire. The Government must have the capacity to draft the Bill. As we know, the pre-legislative scrutiny process allows for very wide discussion. Some of the...
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is an interesting question, which plays to a certain agenda. The hostility to the Department that comes across in some of Senator Craughwell's presentations worries me at times. That is genuinely the case.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Department represents the civilian wing of the Government. I have met the Chief of Staff separately on occasion. He would be the first to say we need a de facto collaborative approach in real time. I am not clear on the rationale for writing out the Secretary General, whoever that may be at any time, if Senator Craughwell accepts the primacy of the civilian authority.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not say the Senator is, but I get a sense of that though.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Senators for the amendments, which relate to sections 11 and 24. I make the fundamental point that section 11(1A)(a) contains the phrase "while in uniform or otherwise making himself or herself identifiable as a member of the Permanent Defence Force". If a member of the Defence Forces turns up at a school as a parent and does not indicate that he or she happens to be a member,...
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am not sure about political controversy, because one person's mundane political matter is another person's political controversy. It is not clear how that would add clarity. People did listen to Senator McDowell about the issue of independence. It was noted. I am informed that it has been reflected upon and it is believed that the term "political organisation" covers and will be...
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Paragraph G of section 2A of the Defence (Amendment) Bill states that the provisions on the making of public statements or comments are without prejudice to the purpose of an association of representing members. In other words, we have clarified it now, and can go back to the Attorney General prior to going into the other House. Nothing can prevent the members identified there, members of...
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes, paragraph G of proposal in 2A.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: To be helpful, on page 9 of the Bill, this is what we are debating at the moment: "Section 103 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1): “(1A) Without prejudice to the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990 and any regulations made thereunder, a member of the Permanent Defence Force shall not— ". The Defence (Amendment) Act 1990...
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: A member of an organisation is in a position to work out its policy positions.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: They have annual general meetings.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: No, the representative body can represent its members and its advocacy is in respect-----
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: It does not do a wide canvass on every single issue.