Results 28,141-28,160 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: The third question, if I may, concerns the Misuse of Drugs Act, which I put to the Taoiseach yesterday. This has been going on for quite some time. The main issue on the streets in the north inner city concerns tablets and Z-drugs, as they are called. A change of regulations is required. The signing of regulations is required to criminalise that activity and to give the Garda the power it...
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I point out that, notwithstanding that huge effort - I accept the bona fides of the Garda in everything it is trying to do - and notwithstanding everything the Taoiseach has said, there have been seven murders within 100 days in our capital city. That says it all about the state we are in right now and the degree of power that these people are...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is in the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is very urgent.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is pathetic. I cannot believe it is in two Departments.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I was a little taken aback by the Taoiseach's comment during Leaders' Questions about the murders that are ongoing. He said that he could not stop this. No Government should admit defeat by these criminal gangs, and there is an obligation on Government to do everything it possibly can across the board, involving an inter-agency response, to stop these murders and put an end to them....
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is no way to treat the Opposition.
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am quite disappointed by the Taoiseach's response. It is not just about gardaí and resourcing of the Garda, although the communities are very clear that they need additional policing. What is happening is not working. There have been seven murders in the space of 100 days. It is very challenging for the gardaí. Community groups have been pointing out that there has been a...
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----to allow the citizens to live quality lives in safety, security and in peace which is a basic obligation of the State to its people and to its citizens and which unfortunately is not being fulfilled right now because of these marauding gangs. That is the reality and the Government needs to wake up to that.
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: This morning, in broad daylight, our capital city witnessed yet another barbaric gangland shooting and murder when Gareth Hutch was brutally murdered on North Cumberland Street. Over the past 100 days, seven men have been murdered in our capital city. I condemn in the strongest possible manner the callous and brutal murders that are taking place and I am sure everybody in the House would...
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: In 1996, after the murder of Veronica Guerin, there was a scaling up of the State's interventions to deal with that situation. The fundamental question is whether the Taoiseach accepts that a similar scaling up is required from the State right now in terms of what is going on in the north inner city and this particular gangland feud. An inter-agency targeted response is required to deal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: No, in terms of the EU-UK agreement, there are implications for migrants and consequently-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----for Irish residents in Britain.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: What does that then mean?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: No, they were the first ten questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: We just got in ahead of the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Go away out of that. Put your questions in on time in future and you might get answers then.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: No. It is parity of esteem all the way. I want to thank the Taoiseach for confirming that today is 24 May. One issue that has not been clarified is the implications of the EU-UK agreement as they apply to the Irish in Britain, including with regard to social welfare benefits. At the time of the agreement we were told such matters would be clarified. I have seen no paper on this and the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I understand not everybody in the House wants that. I do not believe in the idea, as Deputy Paul Murphy suggests, that the EU is a vast conspiracy against humankind.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Depending on one's perspective-----