Results 33,481-33,500 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Tá sé ag caint mar gheall ar tuarascáil a bhaineann leis na scoileanna beaga.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: In his reply the Taoiseach said he had met certain people. I seek clarity on whom he met. Will he confirm he has not met the ICTU formally as a body?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Has he met SIPTU or Mandate?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is clear that he does not want to return to the old partnership model, which is fine. Nonetheless, one of the biggest issues facing us which involves the social partners is pensions. ESB management, for example, did not cover itself in glory in how it approached the issue with workers, particularly how it managed the accounts and changed smartly from defined benefits to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: If the Taoiseach kept the channels open with the ICTU and others, it would help.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: When will the White Paper on universal health insurance be published? I note from the programme for Government that universal health insurance is to be introduced by 2016, but the legislative and organisational groundwork for the system is to be completed during the Government's term of office. We have not had a White Paper yet. Will it be published before the end of the session? Universal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with the social partners recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39248/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The question I asked was whether the Taoiseach had met with the social partners recently. What he seems to have outlined, in essence, is that he has not, but he has attended a number of conferences and launched an initiative for small firms. In view of the situation in the health service, I am anxious to ascertain to what degree meaningful dialogue is going on, either between the Ministers,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might laugh, but everyone else around here would say that everything possible is being done to camouflage and prevent any concentration on the deliberations about the health service plan. The Taoiseach is not beyond a bit of cynical media management and news management. I respectfully point out that with only two days to go, we have not yet seen the health service plan. I...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: They gave the power to the banks.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Actually, come to think of it, the Taoiseach voted against the troika.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is not happening.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said to me in July that repossessions would be the last resort. He said "that has to be the last resort" and that families would be offered solutions that did not involve house repossessions. Is he comfortable with a figure of approximately 20,000 family homes being repossessed? What will the Government do to intervene to provide for those in mortgage distress? He...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Words no longer mean anything in here. The Taoiseach can keep on denying whatever he wants to deny but it does not strike a chord with the reality on the ground. He spoke about the Central Bank targets. Does he know the figure for the threat of legal repossession under those targets? Sixty per cent of the sustainable solutions offered were with the threat of legal repossession. Those are...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: They are out of control. Deputy Mathews is correct.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The point is that these figures-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: We will take this on just the substance and the facts, Deputy O'Donovan, not smart alec comments about individuals or personalities. I put it to the Taoiseach that the bottom line-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: At least Peter is here.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: These are official figures in terms of court proceedings issued during the quarter. In quarter two of 2013 the Taoiseach was looking at a figure of 270. In quarter three of 2013-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----he was looking at a figure of 1,830. Those are facts; they are figures that I did not make up but that are on the official record. Whatever record the Taoiseach wants to take officially, it is telling a story that repossessions are dramatically on the increase and that he has sat on the sidelines on this issue. The most he can say in a much hyped televised address to the nation is...