Results 27,501-27,520 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The allegations are about the deal. That is the point but the Taoiseach keeps almost deliberately ignoring it. The allegations are about the entirety of the deal, its ethics and its rightness or wrongness. Surely, when people heard that there was up to €7 million in an offshore account, it raised eyebrows. Surely, the deal should have been called off when PIMCO alerted NAMA to...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is what has come back to us in regard to this. It is the sense that has come from Ministers, the Taoiseach and NAMA in a very defensive mode. Instead of saying that if something is rotten in the state of Denmark in regard to this deal, it is in our interests to tackle and deal with it.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Did it ever occur to the Taoiseach that we should have set up a commission of investigation when the National Crime Agency, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and others were pursuing this? The Taoiseach mentioned the Northern Assembly. There seems to be a sense of a connection and a nexus between politics and all of this in the North as well. That may emerge in the coming weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I put to the Taoiseach the question of whether he ever asked the Minister of Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, the question as to why the shutters were not pulled down on this deal when PIMCO gave its information to NAMA in regard to third parties.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: All of this could have been avoided if the Government had not decided to sell such large blocks of assets under NAMA and to force the pace in terms of accelerating the disposal of assets at steeper discounts than were necessary.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I did not know that.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Could I quickly take the opportunity to articulate my deepest sympathies and those of the Fianna Fáil Party at the appalling mass murder in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando last Saturday night? Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who have been bereaved and with the victims. It was an assault on the entire LGBT community in the US and globally. It represented a fundamental attack...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance his involvement and interaction with the fiscal council. [15602/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 445. To ask the Minister for Health his role in formulating a cross-government policy on drugs. [15314/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Responsibilities (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 605. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her role in formulating research and innovation policy at Government level. [15313/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 626. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the European Commission's plan to reinvigorate the Mercorsor talks; if Ireland has an official position on these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9982/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 627. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the latest developments at European Union Council level on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10685/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (9 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 193. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding nursing homes (details supplied). [15265/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (9 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if it is appropriate for health service managers to relocate nursing home residents against their will and without the consent of their families. [15291/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (9 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which health service managers take into account the impact on the health of nursing home residents when they are being transferred to other residential units without their consent. [15292/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (9 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if health service managers are planning to have single gender residential units. [15293/16]
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Turf, is it?
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: In the programme for legislation this session, which was published this morning, and in the confidence and supply agreement to facilitate a Fine Gael-led minority Government between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael it was very explicitly stated: "The Government will, within six weeks of its appointment, introduce and support legislation in the Oireachtas to suspend domestic water charges for a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach told me for five years it was.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach actually stated he was going to take over health.