Results 28,241-28,260 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: My party sought a discussion today on Irish Water and our Whip spoke to the acting Government Whip yesterday about the matter. It is completely untrue to say parties colluded to prevent Irish Water-----
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: This is a very important point. From the outset of this Dáil, it was pointed out by the Chair and the Ceann Comhairle's office that independent motions belonging to different parties and groupings were matters to be discussed in Private Members' time. We are in limbo in that a Government has not been formed. It is not accurate to say any party prevented anybody from tabling a motion....
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: Genuine efforts are being made which have not been yet concluded to facilitate the formation of a Government, which I think is the general desire of the people. They want a Government to be formed. It is not so long ago when Deputy Gerry Adams and others were urging the formation of a Government, notwithstanding the illogicality of their propositions.
- Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: Reforming the delivery of mental health services must be central to the agenda of Government and Dáil Éireann over the next five years. Too many people are suffering alone with mental health issues and are not receiving the help and support they need from our health services. In the recent election campaign Fianna Fáil's policy document, Improving Mental Health, which had been...
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: No. What we are simply saying is this, today there are statements on mental health, but at some stage-----
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----and we are not opposed to this and we will work with everybody in the House-----
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: No, not necessarily.
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: There is an obligation on everybody here to decide whether they want a government or not of some form. We have been straight all along. We will facilitate the formation of a government. We obviously sought a sufficient majority of votes for ourselves to form a government and we had a position on water but many people opposed to water charges decided not to support my nomination for...
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: We either give space to enable that to happen or, alternatively, we can have a debate on this in the House at some stage. I am not stopping a debate in the House and I have no wish to do so-----
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----but I want, as a first priority, to try to give effect to the formation of a government that can last, that can be sustainable and that can deal with the major issues facing us, in particular the health and housing issues.
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is false.
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: We support the Order of Business.
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: Comments have been made about our Whip, who hails from Kiskeam. Those from that part of the country, and particularly our Whip, do not do choreography very well. He does not do choreography at all.
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: In other words, we reject the charge and assertion that has been made by Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett. There is no choreography. In the interregnum between the election and the formation of a Government, there have been calls for various debates on a range of issues. Today we are to debate mental health, and rightly so because universally across the country, there has been an overwhelming...
- Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: My final point is that motions, on their own, do not resolve this issue. We are not opposed on this side of the House to a debate on Irish Water in the House. No charge could stand that we are somehow choreographing or involved in choreography; we are not.
- EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: The issue of Britain’s possible exit from the European Union has been raised regularly in this Chamber by Fianna Fáil from the moment Prime Minister Cameron first promised an in-out referendum. The record of the House shows that I and Deputy Brendan Smith were consistent in calling for Ireland to adopt an active approach to the issue. In the past year the Minister for Foreign...
- EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: We will get it back on track.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: We were there.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Apr 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is an important point. The only people who have engaged, despite all the lectures from around the House, in substantive policy negotiations in the past number of weeks are the Independents - Fine Gael with Independents and Fianna Fáil with Independents. It behoves others to stop lecturing those who are engaged and doing the work.