Results 30,101-30,120 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----the autonomy of the Leader companies and local development funding.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government removed their autonomy.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: In Cork county alone, the Government cut Leader funding by 71%. Go there and heckle the people of west and north-west Cork - they are outside my constituency - and east Cork if the Minister of State thinks it is so funny.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is the reality.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: No. The Government politically wanted to take control of giving out grants at local level away from Leader and cut it to the bone.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: On page 27 of the Spring Economic Statement, the Government claims to have set out its vision in Food Harvest 2020, but the Minister of State should, like the Minister, Deputy Coveney, did when he started, remember and acknowledge that this strategy was prepared and published by Deputy Smith in July 2010. It provides the blueprint for all developments in the food and agriculture sector,...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Today trust levels are even lower than they were. It is the bloated, complacent and arrogant claims made in debates such as this which have caused this.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The economy has been experiencing significant growth. Its medium and long-term growth prospects are good, especially when compared with many other countries. However, this recovery was not delivered by Fine Gael and the Labour Party. It was delivered by the Irish people. It was delivered by the skills, expertise, resilience and commitment which they developed over many years. If the...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The spring economic statement was intended to open the next stage of the re-election campaign which has always been the Government's main concern. As the Taoiseach was honest enough to say in the past, its primary purpose was to allow the Government to announce tax cuts and spending increases well beyond anything it could implement during its current term. After six months of an increasingly...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach stand by his civil servants?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Who had access to that?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is being dishonest to the Dáil.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The election will prevent that. The Taoiseach knows that will never happen. Do not be dishonest and say legislation will be enacted before the autumn.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer my questions at all. It is not good enough for him to say he assumes issues are being covered. The relationship between the Department of Finance and IBRC is not covered by this inquiry. The inquiry is ring-fenced to transactions and deciding whether commercially unsound decisions were made or material deficiencies existed. A commission of investigation would...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am making inquiries and I am finding out things. The William Frye report will be important because it will examine the way in which IBRC dealt with its wealth management unit. People could not buy it for one reason or other. Why was that?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the shares. The Taoiseach did not answer my question on that yesterday and he has not answered today either. Will the share issue be covered? Who was buying shares in a bust company and why were they doing so?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Billions of euro were involved. Does the Taoiseach stand by his civil servants it he Department of Finance? Cliff Taylor summed matters up well in his article in The Irish Timeswith the following observation:[T]he extent of the tensions revealed in the FOI documents ... is striking, and cause for concern when so much money was at stake. Was it a case of an over-controlling government...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not what I am asking about.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach never listens, he just obfuscates.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday I asked the Taoiseach if the inquiry initiated by the Government into the IBRC and the Siteserv deal would cover the buying and selling of shares in the period in advance of the sale of Siteserv, and if we would have full transparency over who bought the shares and who benefited from the €5 million pay-out. I also want to deal with the relationship between IBRC and the...