Results 29,161-29,180 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the justification for allocating only two new special needs assistants for 12 children in a special school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29318/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests for the allocation of special needs assistant that were denied, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29319/15]
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about the sum of €230,000?
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is the point. It is a smart-alec response. Deal with the substance.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed based on the same principle as the opposition to the previous proposal. This again represents a guillotining of a very important Bill, namely, the Children First Bill. The proposal is that Report and Final Stages shall be taken today, but again, there is a very short amount of time to deal with the amendments and the issue itself. Coming after the guillotining of No. 39 it...
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach the fact that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, refused a request to increase health funding to meet the ongoing need of the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, for approximately €1 billion. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, said the sum of €1 billion was a nice, round figure that the Minister for Health...
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about the quality of the Friday sittings?
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop, for God's sake. He has ignored them for four years. He should give us a break.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. We are again witnessing the unnecessary guillotining of debate on important Bills, in this case, the Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014, on which essentially there will be about an hour's debate, followed by the Children First Bill 2014 on which there will also be about an hour's debate this evening. What we have been witnessing is the very bad handling of Dáil...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is that being communicated to the British?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has answered 31 questions together, 16 of which are mine. Three and a half years ago he told the House that he and the British Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, had agreed an urgent set of priorities for Northern Ireland, including deepening economic activity, reviewing institutions and tackling sectarianism. There have since been a number of meetings but no progress. In reality...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does it all the time; he should read his material.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: These are people looking for work. They want to stay here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The numbers never came down.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: There are 1,000 kids in hostels.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, regarding the withdrawal of support by Sinn Féin for the social welfare Bill in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11625/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to meet the First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, and the Deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin McGuinness, following the announcement by Sinn Féin of its withdrawal of support for the social welfare Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11629/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11633/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made, and actions taken, by him and his Department on the March 2012 joint statement, which sought to take Ireland's relationship with Britain further by setting out a vision of what closer co-operation might look like over the next ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16204/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the unique, structured process of engagement, activity and outcomes between the Irish and British Governments, underpinned by a programme of engagement by the most senior civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16205/15]