Results 29,761-29,780 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I said quickly that someone leaked it.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I know the Taoiseach does not leak things, but people do it on his behalf all the time. He just has to read certain newspapers.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fine.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: You said something different the next day. That is the problem.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: That sentence means nothing. It is vacuous and meaningless.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is legislation before the House.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What has that got to do with interest rates?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Over 300,000 families across the country are still being screwed by the banks in regard to standard variable rate mortgages. These are families who have benefited least from the current low interest rate environment across Europe. Their mortgage interest rates have steadily increased while those of others have fallen. The response has been totally inadequate. We are talking about very...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said that, if necessary, legislation would be introduced. The Government is huffing and puffing on this, sending out hints that it will do this and will do that, and that it will threaten the banks with penal levies and so forth.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have put legislation before the House this week. It is constructive legislation which would give the Central Bank the capacity to intervene for those 300,000 mortgage holders and also for the 46,000 mortgage holders who are at the mercy of vulture funds. Will the Taoiseach accept our legislation and move on from Second Stage to Committee Stage, given that the Minister of State, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The pressure is not on because the Minister, Deputy Noonan, said yesterday that the banks have moved and that people should shop around - switch around is what he said. The pressure is off. The Taoiseach or someone leaked the European Commission report yesterday to coincide with the Fianna Fáil Private Members' Bill, saying that the EU is now stating that we cannot interfere and should...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Bill before the House is constructive legislation. Despite the Minister of State, Deputy English, saying that he accepted the principle of it, the Taoiseach intends to vote it down this evening. He will continue to pretend to the thousands of families affected that we mean to do something, that we gave the banks this deadline and, as he said, that officials are now looking at the...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and years on this issue? There has been no action in regard to it - nothing. It is about time that he put flesh on the bone of the spin and intervened. There is legislation before the House this evening and I ask him to allow it to be approved.
- Membership of Committees: Motion (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is this the motion to remove Deputy Michael McNamara from certain committees?
- Membership of Committees: Motion (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed.
- 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.