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- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Anybody who knows anything knows it is a real issue. The rent allowance changes are forcing people into squalor and away from their communities. That is the bottom line and the truth.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is the same Government that introduced the property tax and is doubling it this year despite the fact that more than 93,000 mortgages have been in arrears for over three months and 35,314 homeowners have not been able to pay their mortgages for over two years.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Despite this, Fine Gael and the Labour Party, rather than introducing an independent mortgage resolution office, as suggested over three years ago by Fianna Fáil, insist that the mortgage issue should be left in the hands of the banks.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The much heralded insolvency legislation has not delivered tangible benefits. At the end of March, only four insolvency arrangements had been concluded.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: This brings into clear focus the warning made by Fianna Fáil when that legislation was going through the Dáil.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste may well have stored her "Gilmore for Taoiseach" posters in the garden shed, but she has no such alibi for the large and still growing list of broken promises and unfair decisions for which she and her colleagues have been responsible.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: One of the great challenges remains not just the creation of jobs but the creation of decent and sustainable jobs.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government’s jobs policy to date has been about claiming credit for jobs rather than actually making an impact. This is the Government that closed enterprise centres throughout the country so that they could be renamed and reopened with a fanfare.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The same has happened with many enterprise and innovation initiatives. The most recent Government report on action on jobs goes as far as to claim as a new action research centres that have been open for over a decade.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: We need a Minister who puts aside the spin and gets serious about the crisis still faced by SMEs. They have no access to finance, face punitive charges and are tired of a Government that claims everything is fine when it manifestly is not.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The two-tier recovery will be entrenched unless our SMEs are supported, and it is significant that this is not a priority for the reshuffled Government.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Retailers and business in towns across Ireland are in deep trouble and no radical change in direction has been heralded for them.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: I wish the former Minister of State, Deputy Alan Kelly, well in his new role.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: He has already set himself the goal of reorganising and rebuilding the Labour Party organisation and announced his own elevation to Cabinet. Perhaps some of this energy will show itself in his new Department.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party for the past seven years. I am sure she will be looking forward to Deputy Kelly's carrying out his function and providing her with the support on which Deputy Gilmore relied.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The former Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, has every right to be annoyed at being presented as the scapegoat for a health sector which is engulfed in crisis at every level. The policies he implemented, against which there has rightly been a growing public backlash, were Government policies, not his alone, although he must also bear significant responsibility for them. When the campaign...
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Caithfidh polasaithe an Rialtais agus a Airí a bheith mar threoir bhunúsach nuair a dhéantar aon athrú ar mBinse Tosaigh. Is é seo croílár na hoibre inniu. Gan amhras, caithfear a thuiscint agus a chur san áireamh cé chomh tábhachtach is atá an lá inniu do Theachtaí Dála áirithe. Tá sé mar shólás...
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is the pinnacle of a long career. It is absolutely clear that she has benefited from the exceptional support and encouragement of her family. We extend to her our congratulations on her achievement again. It is natural that much of the coverage of today’s reshuffle will be about personalities. The winners and losers will be raked over and undoubtedly stories will emerge of...
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: They think that they may have communicated badly, they may have made a few mistakes, but they do not see what the rest of the country sees, a Government which has been deeply unfair and which has created a two-tiered recovery-----
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----a Government which abandoned most of its promises on the day after the election-----