Results 28,041-28,060 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach did not slap them down at all
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Sometimes you are.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has some very capable spin doctors. Let us give them credit. They are very good and they have a very good habit of doing that kind of thing.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Then the Taoiseach comes into the House and he withdraws.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I will show respect, a Cheann Comhairle, but I think the Taoiseach should show a bit more respect for us as well. We did not all come down in the last shower.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Your people must have been.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Fine Gael has very good ones. I have given them credit. The only thing the Government gets an A mark for is spinning.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I have a number of issues on forthcoming legislation to raise with the Taoiseach. The Taoiseach will agree it is very disturbing to read about how a hospital discharged an 81 year old woman who, following a stroke, is unable to swallow. She was deemed clinically unsuitable for peg feeding and is, therefore, facing the possibility of starving to death. It seems incredible and there must be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. My question is related to Brexit, whether the Economic Management Council has a responsibility for preparing Ireland's plans for a possible British exit from the European Union and asks whether the Taoiseach will make a statement on the matter. I take it that he is aware that the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, has confirmed that the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach send me a note on it, please?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: May I make a brief submission?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is an important point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach mentioned, in response to my question on the nuclear issue, that India was anxious to be part of a new Missile Technology Control Regime. He also said that India is seeking membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group to trade in civil nuclear technologies. These are very serious issues and there is a history there. Ireland, as a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if the Economic Management Council has the responsibility of preparing Ireland's plans for a possible British exit from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40015/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Perhaps the Taoiseach could clarify matters for me. I welcome the visit of Prime Minister Modi to Ireland. I was on the previous trade mission to India with the then Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, when we developed a range of strands of the relationship in terms of the economy, trade, education and culture. The Taoiseach mentioned medical internships. I understand from his reply that he...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am within my rights to make them in Parliament. I am within Standing Orders to say what I have said. I do not like my rights under Standing Orders to be undermined.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Cop on, Taoiseach. He said it is beneath me - what is he talking about?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Who were instructed by government; they represent government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I know how it works, and one looks after one's friends.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of his meeting with the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Damodardas Modi, on 23 September 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33968/15]