Results 27,501-27,520 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: You do not want to condemn Russia in Aleppo. That is your problem.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: You would never condemn Russia.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: You guys are incapable of condemning Russia.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Absolutely. Always dilute the Russian contribution to the slaughter and genocide in Aleppo.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am glad I have excited some bloody activity on it at some stage.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: There you go again.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am doing my best not to be provoked by the pro-Russia alliance on my right, extending right across to Sinn Féin, which has been a consistent theme of this Dáil.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I will not withdraw it. There is a commitment in the programme for Government on mental health and on the confidence and supply agreement. Many people in the mental health community want the Government to be very clear on the investment of €35 million annually in terms of the implementation of the recommendations of A Vision for Change. In recent times, the €35 million has...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Ó Snodaigh just said he was totally happy-----

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Micheál Martin: -----that did not involve divisions.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: It was raised.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: It was raised consistently. Many Members have been raising this consistently and I have been saying it for a long time. It is just not sustainable. I agree with the suggestion that the attack on Aleppo be debated on Thursday afternoon.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: It can change.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, that Dáil reform committee is not formed under the D'Hondt system and its representation does not reflect the various strengths in the House. We have a situation-----

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: You opened this matter, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Large parties in the House-----

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----do not get fairness in the allocation of speaking time. We will have a pre-Council debate tomorrow and a party with five Members will have the same amount of speaking time as a party with 44.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am resuming my seat. You raised the issue and I am responding to it with a point of order.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: What is happening at present is not satisfactory. I do not know how many times we have to communicate that.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Yes, before everything else was agreed.