Results 28,061-28,080 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Not half.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is not my fault. I was quite brief in asking my question. The Taoiseach, as usual, went down a cul-de-sac on a separate issue to deliberately waste time, as he always does.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach a straight question. Did he lobby on behalf of the German Government on the carbon dioxide issue? I did not make up The New York Timesreport.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The New York Timesreport reads:In the summer and fall of 2013, Ms Merkel pressed Brussels and succeeded in overturning an already concluded agreement on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, postponing some regulations until 2021. Ms. Merkel was said at the time to have worked with Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, on the lobbying effort. The Taoiseach is missing the point I am making about...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Other countries also told them where to go. Sometimes principles have to be asserted in discussions such as this. The bottom line is that, even from the Taoiseach's replies, notwithstanding the long, convoluted cul-de-sac he went down, Germany essentially got its way in cutting carbon dioxide emissions and having the directive delayed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Yes and if he would make a statement on the matter.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It would have been better if the Taoiseach had been far more forthcoming when he was asked in public about this issue because his Department had no comment to make on it. A more comprehensive response earlier would have been far more advisable. The critical point is that there is no question but that the German Chancellor was lobbying on behalf of the industry, an industry which had serious...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: A statement is fine.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Which one?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Why was it sought?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is not why it was sought. The Taoiseach knows the realities. Who does he think he is codding?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am showing the Chair respect.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Who does the Taoiseach think he is codding? Of course, it was lobbying.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is Parliament.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am not making accusations; I am making serious points.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is the only guy who is saying it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he received a call from Chancellor Merkel of Germany, on the European transmissions directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33920/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: This is a very serious issue. The Taoiseach has been reported as having been involved in lobbying with Chancellor Merkel in working to delay cuts to car carbon dioxide targets. This is happening in tandem with the Volkswagen scandal that emerged when vehicular emissions were deliberately misrepresented to the public and it turned out that there had been interference with and manipulation of...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is driving people into homelessness.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: They are not social houses.