Results 33,201-33,220 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach continue to expel free voters from committees?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: He just stated the opposite.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: He just said he was.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: A number of issues arise. During the term of the last Dáil, there was a committee on climate change. I have detected that the commitment to climate change issues has waned since the current Government came into office. There is not the same sense of prioritisation of climate change that may have existed previously. The committee was chaired by the Ceann Comhairle. The current...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I referred to a Dáil committee.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: There was a Dáil committee.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach restore it?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Where is the urgency?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: There have been reports for years.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It was always there.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Local authorities are cash-strapped at the moment and do not know where the next euro will come from. There is a lack of urgency and priority on this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Cork was founded on a marsh by St. Finbar, not Fianna Fáil. Let us get that right.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I accept that climate change is having an impact and the response to the impact of climate change is not urgent enough. We are now told that it will be 2016 or 2017 before any work will commence on schemes in Limerick, Cork or Galway. The programme for Government refers to legislating to give relevant line Ministers temporary powers to take charge of the State's actions in response to...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, said that it is up to the Cabinet. He said he does not have sufficient money and that it is up to all of us to take part in a national debate. I take his point but what is provided for at the moment does not go anywhere near dealing with the severity of what is happening and what will happen next year and the year after.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Our coastal regions, including towns and cities such as Galway, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford and Cork, as well as many others, have endured significant destruction, damage and disruption affecting people's daily lives. Trade and commerce have also been affected, along with farmlands, as a result of the storms and severe flooding of recent days and weeks. I commend public service workers in...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I think he is right.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The sum of €250 million over the next five years is not enough. We know from successful flood prevention schemes in Clonmel, Mallow and Fermoy that they do work. Studies are still ongoing in Cork but I am reliably informed that it will be 2016 or 2017 before any flood prevention works commence. That illustrates a lack of urgency and prioritisation. Does the Taoiseach accept that...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Can he confirm whether the Minister, Deputy Hogan, has visited any of the flooded areas affected by storms? Given that he is the Minister in charge, he should get a first-hand assessment of the situation. A sum of €50 million a year is nowhere near enough. Some €45 million has been allocated this year. The Taoiseach has identified one...
- Seanad Reform Bill 2014: First Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Seanad Reform Bill 2014: First Stage (4 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to reform the method of election of members of Seanad Éireann and to provide for related matters.On behalf of Fianna Fáil I wish to move First Stage of this, the Seanad Reform Bill, and to explain briefly our reason for introducing it. In the last general election, every party and Deputy represented in this House...