Results 30,801-30,820 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It makes a laughing stock of the Taoiseach's commitment to the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not my question.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the commitment on legislation in the programme for Government. Why was that legislation not introduced? Will it be introduced?
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: He has an obligation to answer a very straight question I put to him. Will he introduce the legislation as committed to on page 3 of the programme for Government?
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I do not want an update. Either the Taoiseach will introduce the legislation or he will not.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Or else, the Taoiseach is guilty of gross hypocrisy in terms of how he has been behaving on this issue. Will he introduce it?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will he at least supplement, from a national perspective, the draconian cuts he has presided over and return autonomy to the local rural development companies?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Government restore funding for Leader groups?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Answer the question I asked.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: He is wandering all over to avoid the question.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: He clearly does not think they are fabulous anymore.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a smash and grab job.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government changed its stance 13 times because of marching feet.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Despite the incredible spin on the part of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, on Monday last and by the Government in the context of various announcements regarding the rural development programme, the reality is that Leader funding for rural communities throughout the country has been slashed in an incredible manner by the Government in its...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: County Kilkenny is going to lose up to 50% of its funding, as will counties Donegal, Meath, Kerry and Tipperary. The Minister, Deputy Kelly, proudly proclaimed on "Morning Ireland" that he has brought €10 million to County Tipperary. Some €25 million was allocated in respect of that county under the previous programme. To add insult to injury, the independence and autonomy of...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----the essential ethos of the programme, which was previously about independent companies empowering local communities, as part of a politicisation of it. That process of politicisation was begun by the former Minister, Phil Hogan, who went off to the European Commission, and continued by the current Minister, Deputy Kelly. The way in which the Government has dealt with this matter is...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach speak up? We cannot hear him on this side of the House.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will tell the Taoiseach what Leader companies in a particular area are saying. I am not going to mention the area in question because the companies that operate there might be punished by the Government. People are afraid of the Government's tendencies in this regard and of how it gets to them in the end.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The allocation of funding to the Leader companies in the area to which I refer is the lowest I can remember since the introduction of the scheme in 1996.