Results 32,121-32,140 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: This letter illustrates that.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is done in the nicest way possible from the Government’s perspective, whoever put it together. The Taoiseach should please not tell us he is going to do it all in the next five years, or the five years after that because that is the new trick. Whatever the Government could not do in this four years it says it will do in the next five years. It was a con job. The Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: When was that announced?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the unemployed.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: When I asked the Taoiseach a number of questions yesterday about Irish Water, following Deputy Fergus O'Dowd's comments that it has been an unmitigated disaster, an abject failure and much more, the Taoiseach responded that, in his view, Deputy O'Dowd was simply saying it had teething problems. That response illustrated how out of touch the Taoiseach is with the situation on the ground and...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is typical of the Taoiseach that he never answers the questions he is asked in this House but instead makes false assertions and makes it up as he goes along. He is incorrect on a specific point. There never was a proposal for a €400 charge in any document produced by my party.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The central point I am trying to make, and which the Taoiseach deliberately refuses to deal with, was set out clearly by the previous Government in the EU-IMF agreement and the national recovery plan, namely, that water charges would be introduced on the basis of "ensuring that lower-income groups remain supported". The Taoiseach has not done that in the regime his Government is introducing....
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government has not. The new water charges must be paid through a bank account. Did the Taoiseach know that?
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The post office is excluded.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, they have no choice.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Fiscal Advisory Council report is irrelevant.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: On health legislation, I asked the Taoiseach a detailed set of questions on a raft of legislation on the Order of Business some weeks ago that was to underpin the introduction of universal health insurance. I referenced the legislative basis for universal health insurance, when public hospitals would be given autonomy from the HSE, the hospital insurance fund, the patient safety authority...
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is clear that we will not get that opportunity now. There has been no contact to suggest that we will; our Whip has been told that it will be after the budget. Again, that shows the undermining of Parliament and the fact that it is a peripheral body to what is happening in terms of policy formulation. Will the Taoiseach elaborate as to when we will have a debate on the fiscal council's...
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: When will that Bill come before the House? On the universities (amendment) Bill, which deals with the university sector, the latest reports unfortunately indicate that some of our universities have lost their positioning within the top 200 league table. Clearly, university funding is a core issue. Will the Taoiseach indicate when that Bill will be published?
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: You could not make it up.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Question No. 7 on Mr. Alex Salmond is related to this issue. Will the Taoiseach seek a meeting with the British Prime Minister in light of the result of the Scottish referendum? There have been post-referendum suggestions that the constitutional relationship between Scotland and the Westminster Parliament may be reconsidered, as may the entire constitutional edifice between Westminster and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Come on, that is the point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is the politics that is damaging. I will put the question to the Taoiseach, namely, is this not the kind of politics that damages faith and undermines trust? What does having a quasi-referendum in County Armagh - when one knows the result anyway - say to the Unionist community? It is a bit like Crimea and so on, in that we will just have a partitioned one again; we will just have a...