Results 34,001-34,020 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach cannot in this case hide behind the regulator. Ultimately, this project will be funded by taxpayers' money. The problem is that EirGrid decided on one particular option and then sought to ram it down people's throats whether or not they liked it.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is the problem in terms of this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am asking for an independent international assessment of the options. Grid25 is a big project. Nobody is questioning the need to modernise our capacity in terms of energy. What is at issue is the manner in which this is being done. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, this morning endorsed Fáilte Ireland's concerns. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and...
- Death of Nelson Mandela: Statements (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Laoch den chéad scoth atá á cheiliúradh againn anseo inniu. Tá sé tábhachtach go bhfuilimid bailithe anseo chun ár meas i dtaobh Nelson Mandela a chur in iúl. Ceannaire faoi leith a bhí ann - duine a thug dóchas, fís agus fuinneamh dá mhuintir féin. Fear lách, ciallmhar, stuama, críonna a bhí ann. Is...
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might indicate when the National Treasury Management Agency (amendment )(No. 1) Bill will be published. This Bill is to enable the investment platform of the NTMA to be established on a statutory basis, including NewERA and the National Pensions Reserve Fund investments into the strategic investment fund. Given the developments in Bank of Ireland last week, and so forth,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I put the issue of small rural schools and religious diversity to the Taoiseach earlier. The Government policy on school patronage runs contrary to the maintenance of diversity and pluralism. That is manifest in the policy regarding small rural schools and the deliberate targeting of the pupil-teacher ratios in small rural schools. It began two budgets ago and is progressive. It did not...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Government changed the PTR.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: However, the Government changed it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is another argument, but the Government worsened the PTR.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does not seem to be acknowledging that the Government did that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: We will take supplementaries.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The policies of the past two to three years implemented by the Minister for Education and Skills, which are designed to increase the pupil-teacher ratio for small rural schools in general, has caused great anxiety across rural Ireland and in two, three, four and five-teacher schools in particular. The policy was announced three years ago as a phased increase in the pupil-teacher ratio and an...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the embassy to the Vatican. The issue about small schools is the phased increase in the threshold for the retention of teachers. That was announced two to three years ago but it is having a negative impact on rural schools.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I asked whether the proposal for a multi-faith teacher training college for primary school teachers on the campus of DCU was discussed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met religious leaders recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39247/13]
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Health is aware of the case of Liam Mc An tSaoi and promised two years ago that he would not have to spend another Christmas in Crumlin children's hospital. Liam's family are from Galway and will require the support of Galway University Hospital. Liam's mother Louise is a trained nurse. The issue is one of funding and an inability to put together a package to allow for...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I referred earlier to morale in the health service. I invite the Taoiseach to speak to the nurses and doctors on the front line, those who work in the disability services and to clerical workers. When one meets anybody working in the health service, the message consistently is that morale is at an all time low and that patient safety is and will continue to be compromised if the health...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Four years.