Results 32,921-32,940 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Those officials were not on the team. The Minister is continuing to mislead. He said he did not co-operate.
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: But the Minister did.
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: In my initial question I wish to focus on the confidential recipient, Mr. Oliver Connolly. In the transcript of the conversation which took place between him and Sergeant Maurice McCabe, he stated:Shatter would have read your report in detail, I know he did, he communicated with me and he will have read all of your exhibits ... the only thing I would have redacted was your name. Alan...
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: We are all in that sort of situation.
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I only asked two questions.
- Order of Business (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The protection for the 13,000 IBRC mortgage holders is a key issue. I listened with interest this morning to the chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Ciarán Lynch, raise the possibility of the Government bringing forward legislation to deal with this issue in terms of creating a statutory framework whereby the purchasers of the loan book...
- Order of Business (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might communicate in respect of that.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: He knew that he was not-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: You wrote to him about being interviewed.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: That was after the inquiry was finished.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: He made the charge of non-co-operation.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is very weak.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday in the House the Taoiseach announced the appointment of a senior counsel to deal with very serious issues pertaining to a dossier I sent him. I welcome that and I hope for at least an inquiry. However, I ask the Taoiseach to intervene in one aspect of the saga and try to bring it to some meaningful solution. It relates to the assertion and allegation on the floor of the House...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. The Minister has not dealt with it this morning and, of course, we got a copy of his speech very late in the day during the delivery of his speech - I think for obvious reasons. He said that he relied on material that he received, detailing the content of a direction given to Sergeant McCabe on a related matter. No one has ever said and no one is saying...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: At no stage did the assistant commissioner, Mr. O'Mahoney, say that he did not co-operate. No one ever made that allegation until the Minister stood up on the floor of the House and said it. He is the only person who has made the allegation, which does not stack up at all.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: A whole range of opinions and evidence would suggest the Minister was wrong in saying what he said. Sometimes it is much simpler to simply acknowledge that. I ask the Taoiseach to ask the Minister to withdraw the statement he put on the record of the House which is upsetting the person concerned, is not true and does not accord with the facts.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: He was not invited in any shape or form to be interviewed by the O'Mahoney inquiry team, as the Commissioner said on the record of the Committee of Public Accounts when pressed by Deputies McDonald, Ross and others. It was very clear. This has become an issue because the Minister made a big mistake in saying that in the House. Everybody now has to track all over the place and trawl...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is what this was all about last week.
- Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Then it ended up on "Prime Time" on Monday night with a sergeant in the Garda force, who happens to be a whistleblower, having to issue a statement in contradiction of either briefings or statements from the Garda Commissioner. That should never have been allowed to happen. The only reason we got to that stage was to protect the Minister's hide and to give him some fig-leaf to hang on to...