Results 31,761-31,780 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met or spoken to Chancellor Merkel recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35618/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met or spoken with Mr. Mario Draghi recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35620/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the discussions at the August EU Council meeting on the ebola virus in west Africa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35625/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed Ireland's retrospective debt with any other EU leaders recently during, before or after an EU Council meeting since June 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35638/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 16. To ask the Taoiseach the position on the discussions at the EU Council meeting in August 2014; if he made a contribution at same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35662/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the discussions on Israel and Gaza at the EU Council meeting; if he made a contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35663/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the position on the EU increasing the sanctions to Russia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35664/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if the Israel-Palestine situation was discussed at the July EU Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35670/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or met President Hollande recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35672/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met or spoken with Prime Minister Renzi; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35673/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: 23. To ask the Taoiseach the bilateral meetings he held when he attended the EU Council on 30 August 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36509/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: In regard to this question, and given what the Taoiseach said earlier in terms of the Minister, Deputy Howlin's announcement today, I point out that we had a similar announcement three and a half years ago. The Labour Party manifesto in 2011 stated it would:...end the system whereby appointments to State boards are used as a form of political patronage and for rewarding insiders. In future,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is the case of the Minister, Conor Murphy, and the appointment of Máirtín Ó Muilleoir to the board of Northern Ireland Water. I believe there were other appointments which ended up in legal wrangles due to the shenanigans that went on. I could say there are many quangos and community boards in Northern Ireland that have the Sinn Féin imprint. I am just making a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: The parliamentary question was asked by Deputy Robert Troy in July last and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has announced the changes today. However, to take his own Department, where I acknowledge there were only 22 appointments to two boards up to July, not one of them was of a public applicant. That is 0% in the percentage of public applicants------
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is from a parliamentary reply. I do not know the boards.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: To continue, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government made 177 appointments yet the number of vacancies advertised was nil and the number of public applicants selected was nil. I do not know what the then Minister, Mr. Hogan, was doing but he clearly did not believe in any of the rhetoric from before the election or any of the principles that both parties announced...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: Therefore, the power resides with the Minister anyway.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but the Government is not changing that fundamental point. I am just trying to get clarity. There is a lot of smoke. All of this was said three and a half years ago and the performance did not match the rhetoric - that is the point I am making. How do we know that now, following today's announcement, it is going to be any different for the next year and a half? Clearly, some...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am disturbed by the Taoiseach's reply in one key matter. He stated that he apologised in his capacity as uachtarán Fhine Gael. Would it not be better and more appropriate to apologise in his role as An Taoiseach of the Government?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: He undermined a key cultural institution by using it as a political tool and insulting it. He owes it an apology, as does the Minister. In the process, he also undermined the Seanad, a key institution in our parliamentary structure.