Results 29,881-29,900 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is political bluster all along the way.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: He did earlier.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: He did not appear before the inquiry.
- Order of Business (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Four years ago in the section on entitlement to fairness and health service reform the programme for Government stated:A Patient Safety Authority, incorporating HIQA, will be established... The Patient Safety Authority will introduce a national licensing system for hospitals, and will oversee the transition of hospitals from the HSE to independent local control.I have invited people...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----with good reason in some respects because what is never mentioned is that under that guarantee, up to €173 billion in retail and corporate deposits were protected. They had to be protected. That is a net figure for retail and corporate deposits out of the overall amount of €373 billion that was guaranteed. The fundamentals of "no bank must fail" and "no bondholders...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Notwithstanding what has been done - I accept that the officials are working very hard - it might be no harm if the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan, flew to Cairo and met the Administration because these regimes act on a state-by-state basis. I agree with other Deputies who have poured scorn on the quality and integrity of the judicial system that it operates. We know this from even a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes, I was going to come to it. The Taoiseach probably said to Mr. Tsipras-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I understand from where the Taoiseach is coming because I was where he was before the general election. I understand he opposed everything the previous Government did to achieve fiscal consolidation and make two thirds of the correction which was necessary to get the public finances in order. I opposed all of it, too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The former Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, opposed it also.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I understand Mr. Tsipras. Deputy Eamon Gilmore had to say, "It is Labour's way, not Frankfurt's way." I know that Mr. Tsipras had to do all of this too in Greece, but where he and I differ is that, in terms of what happened after the election - as one of our Ministers said, that is what one does before an election-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said to Mr. Tspiras that that was how we had come through it, that we had said what we had to say to be elected but then a new reality dawned after being elected and going into government when we just calmly, nonchalantly and without too much fuss jettisoned everything we had said before the election, particularly about the bondholders and retrospective recapitalisation. It was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I think the Taoiseach might be having an influence because the Greek Prime Minister has sidelined his Finance Minister since his conversation with the Taoiseach and he is in trouble. If I was Deputy Pearse Doherty, I would be a worried man because the Greek Finance Minister has been sidelined in the negotiations. 5 o’clock That is the truth of what occurred. The mirage has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, it has not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not the case.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That was always there.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That was there in 2012.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Boyd Barrett is ahead of me. He is okay to go ahead.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I gave way.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop talking nonsense.