Results 32,181-32,200 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: You have no idea. You have no clue why it ended up in there. That is extraordinary.
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: You did not deal with it before.
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: You smirked and looked into the sky.
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has no idea-----
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is in the programme for Government. It is a very serious issue and we do not get any answers in here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach have any comment on that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is rare praise.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the action plan for jobs.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I apologise. My first question was to do with the deflation threat to the Irish economy. There is panic across Europe about the threat of deflation-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----but the Taoiseach has not made a statement about it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his meeting with the OECD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8921/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Eight questions in total have been linked to the Taoiseach's visit to the OECD in Paris. I put it to the Taoiseach that right now, there is something close to panic in Europe about the threat of deflation and its potential dramatic impact on growth. What is somewhat incredible is I have yet to hear from the Taoiseach a single word on the threat the impact of deflation across Europe...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: It was Deputy Dooley who made the comment.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: You should have put Deputy Paul Kehoe on it.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach finished tunnelling?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: This has been the case for the past two years.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is a very serious issue in that the Taoiseach has said 13,000 cards will be restored - the Minister said something similar in his press release, 15,000 - but the bottom line is that if one looks at the HSE performance report of January 2011, there were 80,000 discretionary medical cards. The reply we got at the end of April from the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, with whom the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Too much playing around with the figures is going on. I quoted from official sources - the HSE performance report of January 2011 and Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 10 June 2014. The number of discretionary medical cards reduced from 80,000 to 50,000, which means 30,000 cards were taken back. Will those who lost their medical cards also receive a refund because clearly by restoring them...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the difference between 50,000 cards and 80,000 cards.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but 30,000 cards were taken away.