Results 31,801-31,820 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste did not answer the questions that I asked.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: If, indeed, the economy is doing as well as she was saying-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----why is the Government then charging families with two adults up to €594?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is excessive for any family with one or two 18-year olds in full-time education. The Government now has the leeway to do something about it - that is my point. The fundamental question I asked concerned the ability to pay.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I met a widow the other day who is on €183 when the property tax is taken out. She does not know where she is going to get the money to pay. That is the question I asked her. She is the Minister for Social Protection. This is why I asked about people on the lowest incomes because the system conceived by Fine Gael in its NewERA document in terms of utility, regulator and full cost...
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I welcome the calling of these by-elections. I have no doubt that they will mark another wake-up call for a Government which is more and more out of touch with the reality faced everyday by families throughout this country. From its first moments in office, this has been a Government obsessed with putting spin ahead of substance. Fundamental election promises were abandoned overnight and...
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: It was in this constituency that the sheer cynicism of Fine Gael's 2011 campaign was first exposed. The party started by distributing leaflets pledging to protect services, specifically accident and emergency services in the hospital in Roscommon. The Taoiseach then stood in a market square and said at great volume that Fine Gael could be trusted to protect hospital services and accident...
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: In fact soon after the Government took up office, Roscommon Hospital was put on a priority list to have services closed down, particularly accident and emergency services, and this was rushed through at maximum speed - so much so that the locals put a tape out for ages afterward containing the song "All The Lies That You Told Me".
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach know the tune called "All The Lies That You Told Me"? That played for a long time in Roscommon.
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I will not do what the Taoiseach did. I will not stand on the back of a truck and tell a bare-faced untruth to the people in any knowing fashion. I am not going to do what the Taoiseach did. I will tell him one thing about accident and emergency services. I delivered the accident and emergency department to Roscommon - the one the Taoiseach took away.
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I did much more than that in terms of cardiac rehabilitation, the coronary care unit and the refurbishment of the surgeries in Roscommon Hospital. As Minister for Health, I delivered all of that for Roscommon Hospital.
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am not finished. I am being interrupted. The Taoiseach, who is developing a record for his lack of candour on health, first denied that there had been any promise. This fell apart when a journalist produced a tape of him making the promise. From the day he made the promise to the day he broke it, the fiscal situation of the country had not changed – a fact confirmed by his own...
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I have been to Fettercairn in Dublin South West. I was at the community centre last week. One of the people who has been working there for ten years told me that "this Government has abandoned us and has abandoned our community". That is how they feel on the doorsteps in parts of Tallaght and Fettercairn. I was there myself last week.
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach do something about the beef crisis across the midlands that is affecting farmers in a very profound way and about which the Government has done nothing? Will he stop the discrimination? We should be getting more time for this by the way. This kind of a debate with five minutes-----
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is about time we got a bit more democracy. The Opposition should not be taking it from each other. I am simply making the point that five minutes for this type of debate is not good enough. We are entitled to make-----
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach ask his councillors to make sure that they stop actively undermining efforts to reduce property tax by 15%, which was Deputy Gilmore's promise before the local elections?
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am looking forward to the by-election. I hope the Government does not use the budget as an excuse to avoid getting down and meeting with people?
- Issue of Writs: Dublin South-West By-election and Roscommon-South Leitrim By-election (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should go down to Roscommon, spend some time down there and listen to what people have to say because in Ivan Connaughton and John Lahart, we have people who will listen, who are rooted in their communities and who will make a difference for the better.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: What about the health reform Bill?