Results 28,681-28,700 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (22 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: 183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí allocated to each Garda Síochána Division and District in Cork City and County, as of 1 October 2015; the corresponding figures for October 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36818/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (22 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: 320. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's plans to rebuild trust between the five political parties in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32849/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Commemorative Events (22 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: 323. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to commemorate 60th anniversary of Ireland's membership of the United Nations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33972/15]
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want to know when the child care (amendment) Bill will be brought before the House. It seems that we have to decode the budget statements of the Minister, Deputy Howlin, in order to get any clarity. My third point relates to the care of older people in community care. Five years ago, the programme for Government contained a clear commitment that "additional funding will be provided...
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I have asked about legislation. There were social care plan reductions in 2014. Contrary to the commitment made in the programme for Government, additional funding has not been provided each year for older people's services. In fact, there have been reductions. When will the programme for Government be implemented?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Like universal health insurance five years ago.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Dáil sat for only five days in September and is due to sit for ten days in October. On yesterday's Order of Business, the Taoiseach listed a raft of legislation that is required. Maybe he was contemplating a run to the country in November, and hence the diary might have been cleared.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Of course. This relates to the order of the House. Will the Taoiseach allow time for a debate on the report on paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland? I accept the report of the PSNI and MI5. I am not clear whether Sinn Féin has accepted it or whether there is complete denial.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy's organisation would know much more about MI5 than I would. Many of his party members had a lot of collusion with them. I will take none of that nonsense.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is important to have a debate to allow all political parties to put on the record their position on the report and the report of the Garda Commissioner. Within days of the budget, the Minister, Deputy Reilly, clarified that not all children will receive a second year of free preschool education as a result of budget 2016. Deputies will recall that the Minister, Deputy Howlin, had said he...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the Taoiseach's positive response to the basic question I have asked, and I am obviously quite prepared for the talks to consider that and for a proposal of that kind to emanate from the talks process. The peace process belongs to us all. It does not belong to one political party, as has been asserted from time to time. We have all invested heavily in the peace process, none...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is what we are up against in the Republic. The situation has always been one of denial, denial, attack, attack. I have just been called a gurrier by Deputy Mac Lochlainn.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is the type of intimidation-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----that people engage in when they are challenged, and remember-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: If I could put it to the Taoiseach, would he not agree-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is the Chief Constable's assertion, which has been endorsed by this report, that Provisional IRA members were implicated in the murder of Kevin McGuigan, which has created this crisis in the peace process.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was not anything I have said or anything anybody else has said.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The final question I want to put to the Taoiseach is about the 50 individual members of the IRA who have had tax assessments against them arising out of criminal proceeds and so on. I understand the need for in camerarules in terms of tax and so on. However, given the extraordinary nature of this issue and its importance for both jurisdictions-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----is there a need to review, in this specific context, how the in cameraprocedure is being used to protect or hide the identities of many of these individuals whom CAB has assessed as having major issues regarding the proceeds of crime and who are making tax settlements with CAB, but under cover and in a way that is not transparent, so we do not get a picture-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: We do not get a complete picture of what is actually happening.