Results 33,901-33,920 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I listen to the Taoiseach all the time, but nothing comes out of him, only drivel.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy last met. [39242/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. That the social policy committee has met only twice sums up the orientation of Government policy. The social policy committee exists to oversee the broad thrust of the Government's decisions in this area. An objective assessment of the past three budgets by the ESRI and others clearly demonstrates that they have been weighted against the weaker sections...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is a distraction from the mean and petty cuts to health and social supports. In this regard, one should bear in mind what has happened in the budget in the areas of health and social policy, and the lack of any proofing of the budget's measures affecting single or separated parents, for example. The tax credit allowance was taken, which can impose a hit on families in the order of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: This place is becoming increasingly less functional as a place of accountability.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Ceann Comhairle is intervening a bit too much. I am asking a basic question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Ceann Comhairle takes out the right questions. How many questions are being disallowed? Numerous questions are disallowed continually.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Of course. Standing Orders seem to be framed by this Government with a view to suppressing any meaningful articulation of viewpoints.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: No. They were voted through last week again.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Yes, they were.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I will do that and will be very effective. By the way, Standing Orders did affect questions last week very substantially, as the Ceann Comhairle knows. Deputies are already complaining about the limitation on time now. It is all designed to give the Government pre-eminence in the Chamber and to reduce accountability. That is the key point. I am referring to social policy. The committee...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: What about the poverty impact assessment of the budget?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: How many questions is the Taoiseach taking together?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach taking Questions Nos. 1 to 11?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach answering just Question No. 1?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is fine.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is not true. We are talking about six out of every ten people who did not do it that way. That is being dishonest.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is six out of every ten people.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is more than a reminder. It is telling them that if they pay by credit card, they will pay this year. Be honest about it.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is terribly dishonest.