Results 31,301-31,320 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is no answer to the fundamental point I am making about €500 million. We are also paying for the construction of a billing infrastructure which is not needed. We have a regulator that will not be regulating. What was the role of the regulator in all of this over the last month? The regulator was not even mentioned in the newest iteration. The charge on which the Government...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: That was always going to be the case.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: Do not talk nonsense.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: For the tenth time we are looking at Government proposals on this issue, so we have been looking at them time and again. For over six months the Government has been saying it understands the scale of public anger about Irish Water and water charges. There have been near-constant meetings of the Cabinet and Cabinet sub-committees to find a way off the hook. This issue was central to a...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: That has nothing to do with Irish Water.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: He is making it up as he goes along.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Acting Chairman should calm down.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is unbelievable the Minister has left the Chamber. We had the same on budget day. There has been a lot of talk about upholding and underpinning parliamentary democracy, but what the Minister has done is contemptuous of the House. I appeal to Ministers opposite and the Chief Whip in particular to bring the Minister back into the House. Pending this, I propose that the debate be adjourned.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle agree to a suspension in order to protect the integrity and dignity of the House? We will not put up with what is happening. 4 o’clock The least the Leas-Cheann Comhairle should do is to suspend the sitting in order to protect the integrity and dignity of the House. Otherwise, I do not think we are going to hang around here too much longer to be...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is there a copy of the motion?
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is farcical that the content of the motion is not before the Members of the House before the debate starts. The entire lead-up to the debate was farcical in the sense that there was no presentation of any details to other Members of the House which would inform their contributions to the debate, other than what has been leaked to the media. To say we do not have the motion before us, as...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: There have been.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: It panicked a little also.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: That happened between 2011 and 2013. Tell the truth.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: On your watch.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: Last Monday night, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Paschal Donohoe signed the commencement order to the State Airports Act giving power to the trustees of the pension scheme of workers in Dublin Airport, Aer Lingus and SR Technics very significantly to slash the pensions of the members of the scheme, divided between retired, deferred and active. It is the first time in...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: The active members have been bullied into an inferior pension scheme under the new order. The Tánaiste indicated to interested parties and stakeholders that she was working with them to bring about a fairer resolution to the scheme. Did the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, consult with the Tánaiste or did she know he was about to sign the commencement order on Monday night? My...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: The alternative the Taoiseach has put forward is not the only alternative. How would the Taoiseach like it if somebody arbitrarily decided to halve his pension entitlements?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: Nobody represented the deferred pensioners in any of the negotiations or discussions, and they have taken the biggest hit. The Taoiseach can work that out for himself because it is fairly obvious what happened. The pensioners have taken a hit as well, amounting to six weeks' pay. In addition, the pension levy which was imposed three to four years ago has resulted in a 2.5% cut - forever -...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Catchment Areas (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the case that her Department is imposing catchment areas on Educate Together schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44488/14]