Results 29,281-29,300 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: We would have wanted to committee to report. The Taoiseach is treating us like fools.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Hang on a second, a Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: We do not know whether there will be-----
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Of course it is a matter for the Order of Business. It is very basic. What is going on is outrageous.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I should table a Parliamentary Question about whether the banking inquiry will report? Are you serious?
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: We cannot be told that much. Is that correct?
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is entirely separate.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I know them only too well.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Thank you very much, Taoiseach. We are all very reassured by that.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: They are responsible to the Minister for Finance as well, and the Taoiseach knows that.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, we voted through a request from the chairman of the banking inquiry, Deputy Ciarán Lynch, to extend the date for that inquiry to report until the end of January. I then asked the Taoiseach what I thought was a very reasonable question - to confirm if the House was to be dissolved before the end of the year. If a general election is called, the banking inquiry will never...
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach aware of the depth of distress caused and the dissatisfaction articulated about how the independent panel of barristers is going about its work, which the Government oversees? Is the Minister of a mind to make a full report to the House in relation to it? Is the Minister or the Government prepared to set up independent inquiries into a number of these cases?
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has gone from McEnroe to Paisley.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is staring the Taoiseach in the face.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach used the word "fraud". The only thing that has been fraudulent is the premise upon which Irish Water was established. If the Taoiseach will not take my word for it, take EUROSTAT's word.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: EUROSTAT recognised that this was fraud. It stated that this was no commercial entity. It stated: "Considerable government control over Irish Water, in particular over board appointments and operations, including broad pricing parameters such as price caps for non-domestic users."
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: It struck Irish Water down, stating:The fact that Irish Water merely re-organises previously non-market activity carried out by local government, with local government assets being transferred to Irish Water and a large majority of Irish Water staff remaining local government employees. Significant and continuous government funding and support to Irish Water, mainly in the form of...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that, by any objective yard stick, the Government has sunk €550 million in water meters that will never be used for the purpose for which they were originally contracted, that is, a payment system based on usage.