Results 32,781-32,800 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Moreover, I do not believe these changes will be adequate to deal with this crisis because the fundamental objectives of Government health policy are not meeting. On the one hand, the Government seeks universal mandatory health insurance but, on the other, it is implementing policies that are driving people out of the market, such is the incoherence of the policy approach. Very few people...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: These are working people who have given up.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government was warned about this in January.
- Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Too much celebrating.
- Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: I welcome the opportunity to speak about the Guerin report. It is important that significant steps are taken as a consequence of the report in terms of reforms in the oversight of An Garda Síochána, its management structures and a fundamental review of the force. This review might, perhaps, be similar to the 1970 Conroy review or the review of the nursing commission over a decade...
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, the 90%.
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: With regard to the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, the terms of reference of the Fennelly commission were announced by the Government on 8 April last. In a recent letter to the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality, Mr. Justice Fennelly stated that the commission does not yet have telephone or Internet facilities. Will the Taoiseach confirm that this is no...
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The matter was raised by Mr. Justice Fennelly in a letter to the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality.
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will legislation be forthcoming?
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister made a promise. I do not know how long he will retain his position, but that is another day's work.
- Order of Business (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: That was not actually the case.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: I never mentioned it; I just want the truth.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, but the Taoiseach did so.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: He was; he had written to the Minister three weeks earlier about it.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Why not give that information to the House?
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality will be before the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality this afternoon answering questions. However, when accepting the invitation, the Secretary General wrote to the committee on 13 May to say that while he would answer most of the questions, he is not in a position to answer any questions about the mysterious set...
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The matter that came to the attention of the Taoiseach and caused him such great anxiety was brought to the attention of the Department and the Minister some weeks earlier by the Commissioner. That does not stack up. It is bizarre. Is the Taoiseach saying that all Mr. Purcell was told was to go to the Commissioner and tell him that the Taoiseach was filled with anxiety, and not to say any more?
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: We are now being led to believe that he said nothing else. He did not tell him he would not survive the Cabinet meeting or that he was going to be sacked; he just told him that the Taoiseach was filled with anxiety.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: This concerned something the Taoiseach had learned on that day, of which the Commissioner himself had informed his Minister two to three weeks earlier. We are not getting the full story. There is an extraordinary silence on the substantive question, namely, the removal of a Garda Commissioner. It was not for the Taoiseach to take that initiative under the legislation. If the Taoiseach was...
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach give a full statement? The Taoiseach knows the story. He knows what happened and I ask him to tell us what happened fully and without any equivocation.