Results 29,301-29,320 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, was on the radio in the past number of days essentially stating that the universal health insurance policy, as per the programme for Government, is at an end. Meanwhile, the crisis facing the health service continues. In particular, overcrowding in emergency departments is at an all-time high since records began. The number of people waiting on...
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: They are way up in the past 12 months. Waiting times have gone through the roof.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is to shelve the Government's policy.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the programme for Government legislation.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He said he is not going to do it.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a form of jackbootism. It is dictatorial.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State can never resist his impulses to demonstrate how tough he is and-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----how such a man of steel can kick people off committees at will-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----so that the remainder of his backbenchers will be forever in fear of him-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and what he might do to them if they should ever have the temerity to do something that would be adverse to the Government's position and fortunes. In terms of parliamentary reform and the Parliament's future, this is more a relic of the past than anything we should be doing today or in the future. I disagree fundamentally with what the Government is doing in removing Deputy McNamara...
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am amused by Deputy Deasy, who has from time to time-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, I know that the Chief Whip must be concerned, but Deputy Deasy always celebrated his own contrarian and independent streak as a distinctive trademark-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----that distinguished him from other members of the mainstream Government parties-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and has managed to stay on the right side of the Fine Gael law. I oppose this proposal and we will vote against it.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, but it would lower itself to Fine Gael's.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin would be good partners.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: No. The Government has given up.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: We are not accepting this proposal because it represents a guillotining of debate on a very important Bill. As I have stated consistently in recent months, the way in which the business of the Dáil is being organised is shoddy. There was a valley for months during which little was discussed and few Bills were laid before us, only for us now to be running over ourselves in the last two...
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. My understanding is that this motion relates to removing Deputy McNamara from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children and from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. This is due to his voting against the Government on an issue. Four years ago, the Government spoke about a democratic revolution, giving Parliament more independence...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It does not have that power.