Results 29,001-29,020 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might confirm if that is the case.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Topical Issue debate was taken before Leaders' Questions and it is now 8.25 p.m. It is a serious undermining of the status of Leaders' Questions for us to be asking serious questions at this hour of the evening.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: During the debate earlier today Deputy Shortall said that telling the truth matters. It matters very much to people generally and to Members of this House. In the context of the Fennelly report, there is a disquieting contradiction between the Taoiseach's evidence and the evidence of the former Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality, Mr. Brian Purcell, the former...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----on the former Tánaiste's account of his meeting with him an hour before the Cabinet. Does the Taoiseach agree that is what he said to the Tánaiste?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Sorry.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I do not know what the Taoiseach is saying.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about Deputy Ciarán Lynch?
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want to know if Deputy Ciaran Lynch spoke to the Minister.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: With all due respect-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: All I am saying is that Deputy Ciarán Lynch should speak to the Minister. Can the Minister not tell him that-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I certainly do.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I expected better, to be frank - more than just a bureaucratic presentation by the Minister in terms of Civil Service speak----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fundamentally, there is a fundamental flaw in it----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Cork County Council and Cork City Council worked exceptionally well in the 1970s and 1980s, for example, in terms of the land use and transportation study. Officials in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government confirmed that. It was an exemplar in terms of how to do planning. That was followed by CASP, the Cork Area Strategic Plan, another excellent model in terms...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I agree with Deputy Kieran Lynch on one point. I do not know whether he has spoken to the Minister or not. So far he has absolved the Minister of any criticism but has blamed everyone else. I accept his point that fundamentally there is an anti-politician attitude at the core of this. Let us abolish politicians. It is like that headline that Fine Gael had with regard to the Seanad...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: "Vote Yes - less politicians". Urban councillors are gone----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I said Fine Gael. Urban councillors have been abolished across the length and breadth of the country.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is the myth that better local government means less politics or fewer politicians.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I would like the opportunity to have more time to debate this issue----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: ----because two minutes is pathetic and is not a reasonable amount of time.