Results 33,781-33,800 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- European Council: Statements (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach opposed it. I asked him for it, but he has persistently refused to provide the documentation on another figment of his imagination.
- European Council: Statements (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should not go on too long now-----
- European Council: Statements (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----because he has been the least accountable Taoiseach to the Dáil I have ever come across in terms of what he is prepared to make available to us.
- European Council: Statements (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Every Cabinet committee the Taoiseach establishes is designed to avoid people getting their hands on information for months and years afterwards.
- European Council: Statements (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: What has been agreed to so far is not a banking union. The single supervisory mechanism, the single resolution mechanism and the deposit guarantee directive under discussion will not create a genuine banking union. Risk will not be shared across the eurozone and there will be no uniformity in regulation. The biggest problem with this is not that it will precipitate a new financial crisis...
- European Council: Statements (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The latest meeting of the European Council was largely a formal affair. The Council had many important topics on its agenda, but it reached no decisions beyond what had already been well flagged and predictable. For all of the Taoiseach’s repeated claims that job creation and growth are the absolute focus, nothing agreed at the summit will make a major contribution to dragging Europe...
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Next year will be too late.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It will be published this session.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Therefore, the Government is going to proceed with the introduction of water charges.
- Retirement of Head Usher (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I would be worried if you were.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The severe water shortage in Dublin over the last two weeks has highlighted many significant issues and difficulties, but in particular it raises the issue of the wisdom of introducing water charges in late 2014 in the absence of being in a position to guarantee large sections of the population timely access to water. There are increased pressures on the system, in particular demographic...
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: People want quality water and a proper service before they are asked to pay for it. In that context, the Water Services Bill, which deals with the establishment of Irish Water, is coming through but the Government has also committed to providing Irish Water with the necessary powers-----
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is legislation on the schedule which seeks to provide Irish Water with the necessary powers to deliver water services, including through service level agreements with local authorities, to define the relationship between Irish Water and local authorities and the economic and environmental regulators, to set out the legal basis for domestic water charges and to extend the water...
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Climate change?
- Retirement of Head Usher (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Ba mhaith liom i dtús báire mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le Tom McGrath as ucht an tseirbhís atá tugtha aige don Dáil agus don Oireachtas i rith na blianta. Ba mhaith liom freisin comhghairdeas a dhéanamh leis as ucht an méid atá bainte amach aige sa Teach seo. Táimid go léir buíoch de. Tá súil agam go n-éireoidh go...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Is that a belated acknowledgement of the progress we made?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I never said that. It is an issue.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have the letter here.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach just did. He is still doing it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Government had to bail out hospitals last year.