Results 30,781-30,800 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will put a number of questions to the Minister of State. One relates to the Government's tendency to wait for other countries to negotiate on debt issues. For example, the substantial reduction in interest rates was essentially the work of the then Greek Government, which sought and secured four times what our Government requested. Regarding retrospective recapitalisation, the...
- European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is why there is a degree of paranoia and anxiety in many of the former states of the Soviet Union that are now free and in the EU. The most overriding consideration that many of them have is to avoid returning to what they experienced. These are legitimate issues. What is happening in Ukraine is not satisfactory and what Russia is doing cannot be ignored by Europe. This is not to...
- European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: What is happening to the Baltic states is provocative, dangerous and unnecessary. Europe must be on its guard. Of course, there is no perfect policy, but the degree of naivety regarding the Russian agenda is breathtaking in how it has been articulated by a number of parties and Independents in the House. Will the Minister of State comment on this point?
- European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is what we are doing. The apologists-----
- European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Events in the past month have made largely irrelevant the outcome of the last European Council. The items which were formally adopted had been agreed in advance and discussions did not move any major issue forward significantly. In fact, the Council did not discuss the major economic and political developments which were in train back in December and have come to the fore since then. ...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has an awful habit of doing that.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach played the game on the back of a truck before the election in Roscommon.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Could I make a point of order?
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Could I quickly make a point of order? The Taoiseach said earlier, with regard to the motion that was scheduled to be taken today on the establishment of an inquiry following the Guerin report, that there had been an intervention by the Ceann Comhairle based on Standing Orders and that that was the reason the debate would not be held today, and possibly not tomorrow. Is it possible for all...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: What is the intention?
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Euro Health Consumer Index has been published and it shows Ireland has slipped from 14th to 22nd in its rankings. By any objective standard, a drop of eight places is dramatic and a damning indictment of the Taoiseach's stewardship over key elements of the health service. I refer in particular to the fact that official waiting list data have lost all credibility among the public and...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is because cardiovascular disease progress started well in advance of the Government entering office, and the same applies to cancer.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Can we have a debate on it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach is up for a debate. Will he be appearing on Vincent Browne's television programme?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach go on Vincent Browne's programme for a debate?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: "Tonight with Vincent Browne" has been waiting four years for the Taoiseach to debate these issues. Is the Taoiseach providing confirmation that he intends to go on television to debate them?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Those were all strategies from before the current Government came to power.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is all from before the Taoiseach's time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: GPs are-----