Results 27,421-27,440 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach his plans regarding the Irish response to the British referendum vote. [17338/16]
- Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: That was Deputy Ó Cuív.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is below the belt.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: That was our commitment to rural Ireland.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to increase each year funding for home care packages and home helps. Some weeks ago, I brought to the attention of the Taoiseach that there appears to be a cap in operation on home help hours nationwide, about which he seemed unaware at the time. Since then, answers have been received on some parliamentary questions tabled that...
- Order of Business (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: We might need time for reflection and have statements later.
- Death of Jo Cox, MP: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: On my behalf and on behalf of my party, I wish to express our deepest sympathies to the family, community and political colleagues of Jo Cox, MP. The murder of a public representative in a democracy is, thankfully, a very rare and shocking event. It is extremely important that we condemn what has happened, but also reflect on it. Quite clearly, the British Labour Party has lost a rising...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach rehearse that?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach say that the hot potato has been handed to the Minister for communications, climate change and natural resources, Deputy Naughten?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is a surprise.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thought that the Minister for housing, planning and local government had been handling this proactively for the past week or two weeks but the Taoiseach slipped it in there that it is now the responsibility of the Minister for communications, climate change and natural resources.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, was adamant that there would be a reduction for 87% of households. The Minister, Deputy Coveney, has not commented on that one way or the other. The bin companies are saying it is a mathematical impossibility. The Taoiseach was in the previous Government with Deputy Kelly. Surely they discussed it and...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: On my behalf and that of my party, I wish to express solidarity and sympathy with the family, community and political colleagues of Ms Jo Cox, MP. The murder of a public representative in a democracy is a very rare and shocking thing. On behalf of my party-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I did not realise that. That had not been communicated to me. Maybe we could work out arrangements for situations like this in the future. I appreciate that, a Cheann Comhairle. I raise with the Taoiseach the anger, anxiety and great surprise at how the statutory instrument introduced by former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, last...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cross-Border Projects (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 47. To ask the Taoiseach his role in working with the Northern Ireland Executive in agreeing and implementing cross-Border projects that can benefit from European Union funding, as per the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13104/16]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cross-Border Projects (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 48. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the next British-Irish Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13106/16]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Overseas Visits (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 49. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for overseas visits for the remainder of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14515/16]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 51. To ask the Taoiseach his role in encouraging Irish persons living in Britain to vote to remain in the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14461/16]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 52. To ask the Taoiseach his views that Border controls will return in the event of Britain and Northern Ireland voting to leave the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14463/16]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to, written to or met with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, regarding the UK's referendum on 23 June 2016 on a British exit from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14465/16]