Results 27,841-27,860 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: Members could decide on 6 April.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: It either will be conclusive or inconclusive-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----and that decision must be made one way or another.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: We will know on the day. I simply think we should put that on the agenda.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: Everybody has.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: May I raise a point of order?
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: It was unclear today, to be honest, as to who could table motions for today. In fact, Fianna Fáil had advice 48 hours ago that we could not table motions. We did table a motion subsequently on housing. If it was to be known that the next session of the Dáil could entail motions from political parties - I respectfully suggest that Independent groups and political parties could...
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: All Members can start to table motions and if some believe only their motions can be debated on a certain day next week, I respectfully suggest that other parties are also entitled to have their motions debated. We need a bit of common sense as to how the House is to be organised in the interim period.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I have no objection to having two or three days but they should be on the issues of health, housing, water and agriculture, which I believe already is catered for in respect of the Council meetings. I simply make that important proviso.
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is agreed.
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: We are surprised by what is happening now.
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thought that the five Independents who are named in motion 5cwere to encompass, representatively, all of the Independents.
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is motion 5b.
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I would have said consistently all along that the d'Hondt methodology should be used, if we are going to go back to that methodology, but we were asked to accommodate more than the d'Hondt methodology, which we were willing to do, but now it seems it is the d'Hondt, plus, plus. I do not want to get involved in that but I will agree to-----
- Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I did not say that.
- Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: The constitutional-----
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: They are not accountable in the true democratic way.
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt Deputy Pearse Doherty once despite everything he said. He should allow me to make my contribution to the House. It would not be possible, so let us begin our work by holding debates where all Deputies have an opportunity to set out constructive action on the issues that should dominate the proceedings of the 32nd Dáil. I think we have had the agreement of most of...
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I would like to make a contribution on the proposal to adjourn the House, if that is in order.
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I have listened to a good few contributions and I would like to make a contribution concerning the proposals pertaining to the adjournment of the House generally. Last month the Irish people chose to elect a highly diverse Dáil. Each Member of this House carries a mandate and a duty to represent those who elected them and to fight for the policies they advocated when seeking...