Results 28,421-28,440 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: He is a decent guy. Regarding taxation-----
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate it. I am nearly finished. Can the Taoiseach clarify when the taxation and certain other matters (international mutual assistance) Bill will be published and whether it will allow for an extension of the maximum period of four years over which a taxpayer can reclaim any amounts he or she has overpaid to the Revenue?
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is hardly credible that the Taoiseach would say that.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: They have ditched those Bills too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach is not seeking it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It was €8.9 billion. The Department of Finance stated it was €8.9 billion.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is getting ready for the manifesto.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Potentially, we are heading into perhaps the last week of this House. The date has been in the Taoiseach's head for quite a long time. I merely want to commend the Taoiseach and the Government on their capacity for self-assessment. The prospect of the chapter in the programme for Government dealing with fairness, in particular, in dealing with the health service, will rank as probably the...
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Five years ago, the following was stated in the programme for Government:This Government will introduce Universal Health Insurance with equal access to care for all. Under this system there will be no discrimination between patients on the grounds of income or insurance status. The two-tier system of unequal access to hospital care will end. The Universal Health Insurance system will be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: In Question No. 9 I asked the Taoiseach whether he had spoken to Chancellor Merkel at the European Council meeting and whether he had discussed retrospective debt forgiveness for Ireland with her or with any other European leader. He said he did not. In his reply, he is now saying that the investment in AIB and Bank of Ireland and so on, which the previous Government made, was effective....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: They were always there. What I am speaking about is separate from those.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That was always the case.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: No, that is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: AIB and Bank of Ireland were always going to be realised. I am talking about the debt outside of that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: We are talking about the retrospective debt outside of AIB and Bank of Ireland, which the Taoiseach said he would get back.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am sorry. The Taoiseach never answers the question he is asked.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach. He took 14 questions on the European Union together. In his reply he said he had not raised the issue of retrospective recapitalisation with German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the European Council, despite the fact that in 2012 he and the then Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, were very clear that a game-changer of a meeting had occurred and that retrospective...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Does that mean the issue will not be raised again?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he had any bilateral meetings at the European Union Council meeting on 29 November 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43474/15]