Results 31,021-31,040 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am not asking the Taoiseach to interfere. I am wondering why the Department of Education and Skills has not responded
- Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will abide by that.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is aware of the case and so I would have thought some direction would have issued to the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to a response to the matter. The letter from Tusla to the parents states:Given the complexity of the relationship between the duties of child and family agency and school management governance relating to the employment of teachers, I would like...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Tusla wants the Department of Education and Skills to co-sponsor the report.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach spoken to the Minister for Education and Skills?
- Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does not need a report from Tusla to get a response from the Department of Education and Skills.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want to raise an issue of some gravity. It concerns allegations of physical and sexual abuse of varying degrees of seriousness in a school in the country and the subsequent Ombudsman's report, which went on for some years, into how the school's board of management, the HSE and the Department of Education and Skills responded to those allegations. I know that the child who made the...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Easter Rising Commemorations (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 502. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the Government's invitation to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, to the 1916 Commemorations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7713/15]
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Sir Humphrey is still alive and Bernard is helping him.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach say that the timeframe for the health (transport support) Bill would become clearer soon?
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is appropriate to condemn the major incident yesterday involving a prisoner from Portlaoise Prison who violently attacked two prison officers while attending a hospital appointment and subsequently escaped. Can the Taoiseach confirm that every support will be given to those prison officers and that they will receive full payment while unable to work and while they recover from this...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government has taken them from CE and VEC schemes.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: On which they receive no subsidy.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Of course, they do, but they also want to mind their children.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: How will they pay the child care costs for a seven year old?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should talk to the groups.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: What does the Government have against lone parents? On 2 July next, lone parents working more than 19 hours per week will lose the one-parent family payment when their youngest child turns seven years of age. Up to 32,000 families will be affected by this measure and in many cases their incomes will be slashed by up to €80 per week. By any yardstick or objective analysis, this is a...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: What is frightening about the Taoiseach's response is the ignorance it displays in so far as he does not appear to understand the issue. The issue is not a reduction of a payment but the elimination on 2 July of the one-parent family payment when children reach seven years. Does the Taoiseach understand that this is what is happening? I cannot understand how he can credibly come into the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: This right-wing attitude has seeped into Fine Gael and, regrettably, the Labour Party.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: No one is standing back and saying this will hit one-parent families by up to €80.