Results 28,361-28,380 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): School Enrolments (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. He is very fond of talking about some anniversaries. As he is aware, it will soon be five years since the first Minister for Education and Skills in this Government announced that 50% of schools would change patronage in 2012. That is another example of a government that has rushed out with announcements irrespective of what was prepared or agreed. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach never came up with a paper. He said he bring a paper to me and Deputy Adams.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach never proposed anything.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach talked his way through it for five years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is very confident.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach closed the Irish Embassy in Iran. That was a bad mistake.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: It had nothing to do with sanctions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: I refused the option to close it when it was presented to me.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: This is an important topic and my question, No. 3, relates to it. However, as this is the last occasion we will have questions to the Taoiseach in this session, we should note that this Question Time demonstrates again how the Taoiseach has ensured over the past five years that it is months before our questions are answered. It is two and a half months since these questions were tabled. At...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is a fitting testament to the Government's approach to the Dáil. There is a lot more talk, but a lot less consultation and accountability. I hope the failure to deliver on the promised democratic revolution will be a major issue in the weeks ahead. In November, all parties joined together to express support for the French people and opposition to the groups involved in these...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is not true. There are more fundamental reasons Daesh and ISIL have come to the fore. It is not because of western interference. Nothing justifies the nihilism or fundamental callousness involved in these attacks on ordinary citizens in democracies across the world. Even in states that are not democracies, innocent civilians are being targeted and murdered and armchair generals are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the President of France, Mr. François Hollande, since the horrendous attacks in Paris, France on 13 November 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42290/15]
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: Ryan was not a commission of investigation; it was separate legislation. I set it up in the first place.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is only five minutes, for God's sake.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: But the Ministers will not answer questions in the plenary session. That is what should happen.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: Last night on the "Claire Byrne Live" television show, a whistleblower gave her account of how she believed an intellectually disabled child called Grace was left in a foster home, in which she was constantly and consistently abused, until 2009. It is known that this foster home or household to which children were sent for summer respite services was so engaged from 1983 to approximately...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: They were placed there by the South Eastern Health Board, by the Brothers of Charity and by private families. The Government and the Minister have indicated they are to recommend a commission of investigation into this entire scandal. Has the Taoiseach taken legal advice and is he satisfied that a commission of investigation can run in parallel to the Garda investigation that currently is...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: I ask this because it is clear from the proceedings of the Committee of Public Accounts that the Health Service Executive, HSE, is stating it cannot publish the Devine and Resilience Ireland reports because of that selfsame Garda inquiry. The point I make to the Taoiseach is Members must be clear in this House that a robust mechanism is available to have a comprehensive inquiry into this...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: Finally, in respect of any civil cases-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----that may arise, my understanding is the State will not defend them. Has the Government given consideration to a redress scheme or some system of compensation for the families involved? The bottom line is that 47 children or adults - highly vulnerable adults with intellectual disabilities - were left in a home about which many people had huge issues-----