Results 28,521-28,540 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: We are fed up. We had it with the Fennelly inquiry, and we are fed up with not getting straight answers on Leaders' Questions at the beginning of a process.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is all this obstruction and obfuscation going on time and again.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: This House is being dismissed on an ongoing basis by that type of obfuscation and it is not good enough. I said at the outset I want the simple truth. When did the Department of Finance know?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach this yesterday and he could not tell me and he refused to tell me.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach would not tell me yesterday.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I have to come in again today to ask him and, of course, he then says it knew but there were Chinese walls and they cannot even dare talk about it.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The claiming of privilege by the Department of Finance is not-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is answering questions he has not been asked and this is his classic trick. He answers questions he was never asked.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but the Taoiseach could not tell me yesterday.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Waiving privilege is not breaking the law.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach a number of questions about the inquiry into the sale of Siteserv and other State-owned assets by IBRC. He did not answer the very basic question I put to him, namely, why the Department of Finance refused to waive its rights regarding the documents it sent to the commission of investigation. I asked the Taoiseach if it was his position that no officials in...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Incredibly, it was also originally asked by the Minister for Finance to lead the investigation. Is the Taoiseach not now thoroughly embarrassed by the decision to ask it to investigate, given that it has emerged as the main obstacle in the progression of the investigation and has claimed that the public interest does not override the necessity of the utilisation of these documents by the...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: No; I am asking about the Department of Finance's knowledge.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: People in the private sector argue about Chinese walls, and that is the KPMG argument. It claims it can be adviser to and investigate the sale, as well as taking steps legally to say the investigation cannot go ahead under a different aegis. It is incredible that the Taoiseach of the day would claim there is a Chinese wall syndrome at the heart of Government in regard to an investigation...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----on the workings of the Lindsay tribunal. Many people will remember that well, because we were asked to waive legal privilege, something that many people, including those in the Law Library, did not like. Many people did not want it to happen, but I took the decision. It is inconceivable that the Department of Finance would lay claim to confidentiality without the Minister for Finance...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken to address failings with the treatment abroad scheme (details supplied); and if he is aware of the great distress suffered as a result of these failings. [39708/15]
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has not dealt with it.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is asking a question.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is no need to do that now. Deputy Buttimer should not be so self-deprecating.