Results 30,121-30,140 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why was there not an independent review and why did the Minister not reveal this information earlier?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: That has nothing to do with it.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Department of Finance appointed a person to IBRC.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have the necessary laws.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government fixed the result before it even started.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach assure us today that the activities on the share register in advance of the sale will be covered by the inquiry and will be embraced by the investigation? Can he ensure that in the interim the Government will ensure full transparency into who was buying shares in a company that was going bust-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and full disclosure in terms of the personnel involved and all the activity? Why will the Taoiseach not-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----establish a commission of investigation under the Act?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: By the way, the Taoiseach voted for the bank guarantee and actually asked that the bank guarantee be extended to other banks. So I ask him to stop the hypocrisy. The Taoiseach mentioned that the Government had no wish to cover up. However, it did cover up. The incredible and fraught relationship between IBRC and the Department of Finance was not revealed to the Dáil for three...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and the Minister refused to pursue that. IBRC has now confirmed that it did not pursue any independent review either. So there was no independent review three years ago despite officials in the Department of Finance articulating-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----their concerns and asking for it to happen. For some reason the Dáil was continually misled over a two to three-year period and there was essentially a cover up.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I would think that is a very serious and grave issue.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: There was a cover up over what was going on within IBRC, not just on this issue, I acknowledge, but also in respect of other big transactions. There were significant concerns in the Department of Finance but they were never shared with the Dáil until freedom of information documents were released.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want to raise the issue of the commissioning of a review and the production of a report on the sale of Siteserv and other large transactions pertaining to IBRC and the decision of the Minister for Finance in that regard. I would make the point that there is a fundamental conflict of interest in allowing KMPG, which advised on the sale of Siteserv, whose personnel were involved with that...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----in defence of the sale but the bottom line is that it was a very strange and wrong decision to allow the company to run the sale rather than IBRC. There was no logic in excluding trade buyers from the sale and the €5 million pay-off proves the point.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The company had skin in the game and that is why it should never have been let near the sale. Yesterday we had a farcical situation relating to activity on the share register and the promise from the Taoiseach that there would be full transparency.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: 346. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department is aware of the delay in appointing the French ambassador to the embassy of the Holy See; his position on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16404/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Labour Court Recommendations (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: 391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that the Labour Court has ruled that the jobs evaluation exercise in the Tyndall Institute, University College Cork, is over, if her Department will now do what is right and fair and pay out as per the Labour Court recommendations outstanding from 2008 (LCR20577), to the Tyndall four; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is more phoney politics.
- Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the Taoiseach said the Comptroller and Auditor General had the legislative remit to investigate the Siteserv deal. Doubts have emerged about whether the legislative template exists for the Comptroller and Auditor General to do so. I raised it on yesterday's Order of Business and the Taoiseach indicated that it did. I understand the Comptroller and Auditor General is not in a...