Results 27,581-27,600 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach heard me at my very first Ard-Fheis, in 2011, on national radio. I was the only party leader who went on national television to debate the issue, with Vincent Browne, during the referendum. No other leader-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: No other leader was taken on. RTE would not allow me to go on air except for one interview on "Morning Ireland", and I protested against RTE-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----and it would not facilitate me. That is a fact. There is no point in Deputy Coveney interrupting me-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: People in different parties have different views, but we took a position at an Ard-Fheis to go forward on the issue after 2011. The Labour Party was clearly in favour of it-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin was in favour of it. I do not want to remind the Taoiseach of the flowerpot incident, when he ran away from journalists before he answered the question-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The famous incident when the Taoiseach fell over a flowerpot-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I do not want the interruptions-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach was wrong in what he said. I was very much to the forefront of the campaign. What he has said is wrong and inaccurate and he should withdraw it. I was the only party leader-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----who debated it on national television-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----courtesy of "Tonight with Vincent Browne", a journalist, of course, whom the Taoiseach has never facilitated with a debate-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Coveney is wrong. I am the only party leader-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----that went on national television. The Taoiseach did not debate anything to do with it on national television-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am not. Does Deputy Coveney accept that as a fact?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The point I want to make about the citizens' assembly is that I do not pretend that it was the Constitutional Convention that led to the referendum.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: It was not. It was a party political decision, and it took the Taoiseach longer than most to go with it. He was the last party leader, two years on, to eventually agree with it. Fine, he did, and I am happy that it worked. I do not want any divisive comment about it. It was a great day, and many people voted for it. Some had their views about it, to which they are entitled. People in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Regarding the eighth amendment, let me again state that the idea of a citizens' assembly is very curious. It should not be left to a citizens' assembly at all. It will take six months to establish. That is my point. Given the complexity of the issue, I believe that it is not clear at all how a citizens' assembly could work on an issue so dramatically more complex than anything examined by...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt Deputy Coppinger and I would appreciate if she would respect my democratic right to make my points. Freedom of conscience will apply, and the Oireachtas has dealt with this before through Green Papers that considered all the scenarios and options. I believe a judge-led commission initiative would feed into an all-party Oireachtas committee and would be the best route...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when he will establish the citizens' assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12873/16]
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Again this week we have had a very tragic situation. I refer to the deaths of two babies in the same maternity unit in the space of a week and to the news of the tragic death of a mother who lost her life in Holles Street on 8 May last. It has to be said that the vast majority of pregnancies in Ireland are safe and uneventful. Nonetheless, the recent deaths will create further uncertainty....
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is the Taoiseach's telephone.