Results 28,661-28,680 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Staff (15 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 489. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is concerned for the safety of Irish civil servants working in Brussels and in other missions, if extra safety measures have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42293/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 490. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if attacks on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria were discussed with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42292/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 491. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the comments by the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, on how safety and security depends on degrading and ultimately destroying the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41154/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (15 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 492. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding dealing with the legacy of the past element of the agreement on the North; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41157/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Consultative Group (15 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 558. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish the minutes of the weekly meetings held in Government Buildings regarding Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44709/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Negotiations (10 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 202. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the Conference of Parties 21 in Paris in France; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43469/15]

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is after five years.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach keep them in for the summer?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed to. It seems extraordinary that we are dealing with Supplementary Estimates involving hundreds of millions, if not billions, of euro while the plenary session of the Dáil is not in a position to have any serious debate about them. One Supplementary Estimate alone involves €665 million for the health service, which was disgracefully treated in the past, but a...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: They may not have the opportunity.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: We are talking about €1.6 billion of taxpayers' money being rushed through in 20 minutes. It is a disgrace. This is some democratic revolution. There will be five minutes for each spokesperson.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Parliament is being consistently undermined by Government.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is not the point. I would like to discuss them. Are we to abolish the plenary session of the Dáil?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is about every Member of the House having the opportunity. Does the Taoiseach understand Parliament?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I know that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, laid out the red carpet for Donald Trump recently in County Clare, but I take it the Government will not lay out the red carpet for the disgraceful and inflammatory remarks Mr. Trump made in the course of the American presidential election about banning Muslims from coming into the United States.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I am coming to that. That is incitement to hatred and it is important that the Government formally make it clear to the Republican Party in the United States that such remarks are viewed with abhorrence in Ireland and are something we would not tolerate in our democracy. In that context, when does the Taoiseach believe the criminal justice Bill will be brought forward? The remarks warrant...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I have gone through the chapter on commitments in respect of health but, although year after year and month after month the Taoiseach assured me they would all be implemented, the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, came along and said we were not implementing universal health insurance at all and, what is more, it will never happen.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Teachers in schools hate the Croke Park hours. They call it detention for teachers, as they have to stay in school for an extra couple of hours.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I do not think they realise there is a paragraph in the programme for Government that states that teachers do not have to do this at all. Instead, the Government will allow schools to set their own staffing needs, automate routine processes and adapt work practices to local staff and customer needs. When is that going to be implemented?

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: They did, but they were refused.