Results 29,361-29,380 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding discussions on Northern Ireland with the President of the United States of America, Mr. Barack Obama; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12769/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the bilateral meetings he attended while in the United States of America in March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12770/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the business leaders he met while in the United States of America in March 2015; if double taxation was discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15196/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he met groups representing the undocumented Irish while in the United States of America; if progress has been made in relation to the undocumented Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15199/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach the names of the Senate representatives in the United States of America with whom he met to discuss the undocumented Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15200/15]

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----stitching up this deal as far back as 2010, the ultimate goal being to get it into one bundle, after which people would use contacts to interest investment funds and so forth.

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Mr. Watters said that "at this point I felt assured that £7.5m would be paid to Cadogan Futures LLP." He talks about a meeting on 4 July 2013 at Tughans. This letter was sent to Mr. Frank Cushnahan with a cover letter. Mr. Cushnahan was a member of the Northern Ireland advisory committee to NAMA. The more that unravels regarding this deal, the more genuine concern is generated....

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The same sets of solicitors were involved with Cerberus too. The bottom line is this: why is the Government ignoring this issue and essentially giving comfort to NAMA to put up a wall and not to engage fully in the investigation in Northern Ireland?

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Why is the Government determined to try to make this go away? All I would say is that the evidence suggests that it is not going to go away and the Taoiseach has a responsibility to follow it up.

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows that the Northern Ireland Committee for Finance and Personnel and the Committee of Public Accounts are not going to get to the bottom of this. The letter I referred to earlier was written by the same gentleman who said, with regard to the Northern Ireland inquiry, that "Unsupported testimony provided yesterday at Stormont claimed I was due to receive a fee from monies...

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----which were clearly of such concern to all involved that the original successful bidder, Pimco, had to withdraw. NAMA's defence at the Committee of Public Accounts was that people could not expect it, notwithstanding those concerns, to have pulled the deal, which could have undermined the price. In other words, the price justifies whatever happened. NAMA is under the Taoiseach's...

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach approve of NAMA not giving an oral public testimony to the Northern Ireland inquiry? He should not give me stuff about it sending documents up. Why will it not go up there?

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is like the European Central Bank's sort of leithscéal - we are not answerable to the Irish Parliament but to the European Parliament and we will not turn up to the Irish banking inquiry. NAMA borrows from the ECB's book and says it is not liable in Northern Ireland and is not under that jurisdiction. I do not think that is tenable. Does the Taoiseach think it is?

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The same does not apply.

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach set up a commission of investigation?

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Can I get a reply to that question?

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: I asked if the Taoiseach would set up a commission of investigation.

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: I will be as topical as I can.

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: As the Taoiseach knows, since last July we have been raising serious concerns about the Project Eagle deal, which involved the sale of the Northern Ireland portfolio by NAMA. Deputy Wallace has been very persistent in asking these questions as well. I put it to the Taoiseach in July that there is an ethical consideration here because it is not good enough for NAMA to say that everything is...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (6 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 165. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff employed in the Government Information Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34055/15]