Results 32,021-32,040 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Seán Conlan knows all about it. That is how you guys run it. You might run the Fine Gael operation like that but do not think you are going to get away with running the Oireachtas like that.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I want an assurance from the Government that Irish Water will come before the relevant Oireachtas committee to answer questions that many people have. As regards the forthcoming finance Bill, there has been a considerable lack of detail in the health budget for 2015. The HSE deficit could hit €500 million. The comprehensive expenditure report published on Wednesday by the Minister...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg is not the Chair.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is legislation and I am coming to that. The bottom line, however, is that we are facing a similar situation this year. Health budgets have been produced that have no credibility at all. Last year we were given false figures. We know that now because through a freedom of information request we obtained HSE documents to the Minister at the time expressing alarm about safety. When...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Operations are being cancelled and operating theatres have been closed. That is what is going on right now. There should be far greater transparency for the health Estimate than has been provided to date, including last year. Such transparency was committed to by the Government a long time ago but it has not been realised in the context of the health Estimate.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Or the Oireachtas.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: With the Oireachtas.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, with the Oireachtas.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Does the Tánaiste not think Irish Water should come before the Oireachtas?
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste is acknowledging the changing weather vane.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government might have, but the Dáil did not.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Liverpool.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is a lot of worry among Labour Party Deputies.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I did not say that.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Back in 2009 the Fine Gael Party, in a policy document entitled NewERA, said it would bring all of Ireland's water assets under the ownership of one State company, Irish Water. Its document goes into considerable detail as to how Irish Water would be a super-lean and efficient operation in terms of organising the Irish water supply. Yesterday, we saw and read that the Fine Gael Deputies are...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is Deputy O'Dowd not right in many respects that the whole execution, implementation and establishment of Irish Water has been an unmitigated disaster-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and it does not justify the yield by any business model or any definition? All of that does not justify the yield of about €150 million. While I am not even suggesting this, putting 5 cent on a gallon of petrol would have raised the equivalent amount of revenue.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: There are many ways to raise funding and many ways to do things. The Fine Gael Party, not in any context of the prevailing situation, believed in establishing a whole range of utilities. This was in its NewERA document, which the current Minister, Deputy Coveney, developed at that time. I do not know who worked with him to develop those ideas, but they were very strong and bullish about...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the EU-USA trade agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35203/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Staff (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has met the new chief executive officer of IDA Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35669/14]