Results 34,321-34,340 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is now demonstrating his lack of accountability to the House. This is being done on an ongoing basis.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: He is in good flow.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is coming now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Peter Mathews was not talking about his relationship with the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should not get personal.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not say that to Deputy Peter Mathews when he recruited him for the last general election. He has a different tune now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach deserves a medal for filibustering.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed to. I seek clarification from the Taoiseach. Will he explain the background to this motion? We did not receive the Order Paper circulated earlier. I have just received it and consulted the Chief Whip. Why is there to be no debate on that motion and what is the background to it?
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: From what I can gather, there is a significant lack of accountability to the House on this issue. This is coming in under the radar without debate, for example, on the inadequacies of the 2012 Act, the unintended consequences, as the Taoiseach described them, which, again, precluded the Ombudsman for Children from hearing complaints regarding children in detention. I cannot understand why...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: Was it a meeting RTE could not record?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: How much time is left?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should keep his replies short.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: Those corporations have very good access to Sinn Féin in North America.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: They funded many a banquet there. The list is quite revealing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: I cannot rival Deputy Adams in the United States in terms of the big corporations that finance his party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Adams has a cheek to come to the House and talk about access to the Government for a sector that provides 30,000 jobs.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: Yet in his fund-raising in the United States Sinn Féin has gone to those corporations and received $1.7 million.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am not talking about that. I am talking about fund-raising.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach says it does not involve a new strategy but the minutes indicate that is what his Secretary General and the assistant secretary from the Department of Finance want. Mr. Fraser, the Taoiseach's Secretary General, "noted it was clear that something must be done. He expressed his view that Food Harvest 2020 was an interesting model, with a clear strategy, targets and branding...