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- 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-----
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and a Government which has put politics first in everything it does. According to them, they are unpopular because of tough decisions. This is nonsense.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: They are unpopular because so many of their decisions have been unfair, have caused avoidable damage and have been about managing the news cycle rather than shaping a better future for all parts of our society. If we look back at the budgets and major announcements of this Government, we find a constant effort to make claims which were the direct opposite of the truth. Every one of them...
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The people who claim to have delivered a democratic revolution while at the same time actively and significantly tightening Government control over the Oireachtas are not being listened to by a public which has grown cynical of everything it says.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The long list of issues which the Taoiseach and Tánaiste have sought to claim credit for in their speeches is yet more of the same. As the OECD recently reported, the overwhelming reason for improvements in the economy has been a combination of international circumstances and the long-term strengths of the Irish economy, particularly the skills of our people. Public finances have...
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----that it could not point to a specific effect the Government’s jobs plans have had on employment.