Results 33,181-33,200 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is unprecedented how you come in to protect certain situations. You made it clear to the Taoiseach that he dare not reply to a very fundamental question.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: If you would allow me to finish, I would finish, but you do not. I want a simple answer. It is on the record of this House since last Thursday that a whistleblower-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----was told by the Garda confidential recipient that the Minister for Justice and Equality will "go after you" if this material goes into the public domain. I can think of nothing more important-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am raising it, but you are trying to stop me raising it-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and you are trying to stop the Taoiseach from answering it.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is a very simple question. Is the Taoiseach aware of it? Has the Taoiseach sought confirmation from the Minister? Is it because, and I do not want to cast any aspersions on the individual-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, because the whistleblower will say-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The whistleblower will say he told him the truth, because the whistleblower will say that the Minister did come after him. That is what the whistleblower will say.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Oliver Connolly was correct. Oliver Connolly was close to the Minister, he was a good supporter of the Fine Gael party, as he is entitled to be, but he was appointed to a very sensitive office.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The last while has not been good for the administration of justice. We have had the saga of the whistleblowers at the Committee of Public Accounts, the revelation last week by Deputy Mick Wallace, which he put on the Dáil record, of an alleged transcript of a conversation between the garda whistleblower, Maurice McCabe, and the confidential garda recipient, Oliver Connolly, and now we...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: This concerns the administration of justice, which I stated very clearly at the outset.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I made it very clear at the outset that it has been a bad couple of months for the administration of justice and I am entitled to raise that topic.
- Other Questions: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (6 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: 25. To ask the Minister for Defence his views regarding the recent decision made at the European Council in relation to drones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4836/14]
- Northern Ireland: Statements (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is Deputy Adams serious?
- Northern Ireland: Statements (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Over the past three years there has been a growing and increasingly dangerous complacency about the situation in Northern Ireland. On the rare occasions that Northern issues are now addressed in the Dáil by the Taoiseach, we hear statements that everything is in hand and lots of meetings are taking place. We also hear Deputy Adams express his general support for a Government policy...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: When?
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach know at what stage it is at the moment?
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: What I asked was whether the Taoiseach would agree to the re-establishment of the previous Dáil committee on climate change.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: That committee has a very wide-ranging brief.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Climate change is not a priority for the Government.