Results 28,021-28,040 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach just does not care about people who have problems.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: He was politically removed.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach if he had seen the RTE film "My homeless family". I was inundated with calls yesterday from people who were quite shocked by the revelations about the reality of homelessness in Ireland today, and particularly the plight of families in hotels. I do not know if the Taoiseach has seen the programme but it is important that he should do so. Yesterday, he...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It illustrates in one story how this Government does not get what it is like for people to be in hotel rooms all over this city and across the country. There was a great opportunity to do something there with one, two and three-bedroom apartments at €100,000 each, rather than the €190,000 for modular homes. It is time the Government understood the urgency of this crisis and...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The programme was not about those complaints.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: People are fed up with the Taoiseach-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----and the deliberate decision never to answer questions that are put to him. In 2012, there were eight families presenting as homeless. In 2014, that number had risen to 40 under the Taoiseach's watch. In 2015, it went to 75, and it rose to 90 in one month last year. This is on the Taoiseach's watch. Threshold, Focus Ireland, Simon and the Peter McVerry Trust all warned the Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is the point I am getting at, Taoiseach. There were 442 apartments out in Tallaght West which the Taoiseach could have directed and ensured were bought.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach could have done that but he chose not to.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: He chose not to spend €83 million. He goes on about modular homes which would cost €190,000. These apartments were sold for €100,000.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach clearly has not watched the television programme to which I referred but I ask him to do so. He might then get a sense of urgency about this issue. He is out of touch with the reality of what life is like on the ground for many vulnerable families in this country. They do not get fairness in terms of treatment because the Taoiseach's philosophy islaissez-faireand to let the...
- European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I inadvertently consulted the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on this earlier and thought there would be more questions, but that is a genuine oversight on my part. On the summit and the Council meeting and the deal and discussions between the European Union and Turkey in terms of seeking to prevent people leaving the camps to travel to Europe, in the overall context has the Government a position on...
- European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Minister of State answer the question? Is the chapter closed?
- European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I think the Minister of State needs a Garda escort again.
- European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Over the past five years, we have spent an enormous amount of time on statements such as these. In addition to post-Council statements, which have been held for decades, we have had the extra opportunity to each speak for ten minutes before summits. However, if one looks back on the record, one will find that the statements have been defined by the Government’s refusal to...
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, during the Order of Business we can legitimately ask for proposed Government legislation. Given the extraordinary headlines and comments this morning, I would have thought the Taoiseach would be in a position to outline what legislation is being proposed-----
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----particularly if the Minister is outside the House right now, perhaps having done it already. Surely that is very regrettable.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach clarify that he did not say he rebuked the watchdog for spying on journalists? He is saying he did not say that at all and that no one on his behalf briefed the newspapers. Nobody on his behalf briefed the Irish Independentin this respect.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach clarify that nobody briefed the Irish Independent, that he did not say these things and that no one on his behalf said he was rebuking the watchdog for spying on journalists?
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is a very important issue. GSOC was rubbished this morning by spokespeople on the Taoiseach's behalf. Someone briefed the journalists. They did not make it up themselves.