Results 33,281-33,300 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he has any concerns regarding the lack of consensus on the recommendations from Dr. Haass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2205/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: 31. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the issue of the disappeared with the First Minister and Deputy First Minister recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3536/14]
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: Who came up with the idea of the transition office only the county managers? Over half the staff come from the local authorities, which is a factor in the €180 million cost element.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: In terms of the charges facing households, it now looks like they could be anything up to €500. Can the Taoiseach shed any light on what people will be paying in water charges in January 2015, particularly in the context of the enormous expenditure in which the Government has engaged? The ESRI report refers to a full cost recovery model in terms of the submission to Irish Water and...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not the case at all. The Taoiseach should read his own Government's economic submission.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is hiding behind the regulator again.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: On 15 January the Taoiseach said to me and the House:This is a public utility in public ownership. Therefore, there is nothing that should be secret about it and there is nothing that will be secret about it.That was in respect of the establishment of Irish Water. It is fair to say that everything has been secret about Irish Water and that over the past 12 to 15 months, the Government has...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----had a point when they said that there was no point in applying because the jobs were spoken for already and that there was an element of an inside track. Does the Taoiseach believe that was right or that it was appropriate and correct? Will the Taoiseach undertake to publish all material now in respect of Irish Water? Will he publish all the service level agreements? Will he publish...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's answer has no credibility and is not correct. Everything we have found out to date has been via the media, not from the Taoiseach or the Minister, Deputy Hogan. I will leave others to judge the statement I have just made. The Taoiseach should not come to the House and try to pretend there has been full transparency from the Government in the past 12 to 15 months in respect...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: 543. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the tendering processes that Irish Water is using. [3930/14]
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: When?
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: When will it come in?
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, when speaking about the health service, the Taoiseach said that, overall, the service provided had not diminished in its impact or effect and that while costs had been extracted from the delivery of health services, there had been no diminution in their quality. He said this on the very day the Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees Association sent a letter to HIQA stating current...
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: He was, yes.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: He did not agree to it.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: Maybe the Taoiseach should have talked to the Minister, Deputy Hogan, about Irish Water.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: I spoke to the Chief Whip. We discussed it and my party opposed it.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: We voted "Níl".
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: We do not agree with that.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach controls everything that goes on in here.