Results 34,681-34,700 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am entitled to speak. Deputy Stagg is not the Chair.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Stop acting with the bully-boy tactics.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg is not the Chair. There is enough of a power grab going on now. He wants to run the whole show.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: This is the standing, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am entitled to speak. This is a very important Bill. We all have people coming to us who are in mortgage arrears and who are worried about the power of the banks and the attitude of the banks to them.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: David Hall has said that up to 50 new repossession cases are coming before the courts every month.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: He has said there is an increased frequency in the level of approaches of that kind to people in mortgage arrears. No conditionality is being attached-----
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is no independent------
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am endeavouring to make my contribution but, in line with the authoritarian streak evident in this Government, all we get is Deputies of the Government parties trying to shout down Members of the Opposition when they raise legitimate questions on the Order of Business about the guillotining of Bills, unnecessarily.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is no necessity to guillotine this Bill. The spokespeople should be allowed proper time and space to table amendments, to discuss and vote on them. There was no need to guillotine the last measure either.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I know that and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, knows that as well. However, it is being done for the convenience of Government and for the convenience of the Government backbenchers.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is a disgrace. It is treating the House with contempt and treating the programme for Government with contempt as well.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: This is very important legislation that essentially gives carte blanche to the banks to repossess family homes without any conditionality attached. When this is combined with a dilution of the protections of the code of conduct to unravel the protections that existed for people in mortgage arrears, we have a new landscape. People in mortgage arrears are now much more vulnerable as a result...
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The purpose of today's Order Paper is almost exclusively to guillotine debates. During Questions yesterday, the House was treated to a presentation by the Taoiseach in which he stated he wanted to have a chat with me, Deputy Adams and others about Dáil reform.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: We have been hearing this message every week for the past year and a half. I have never had a discussion with the Taoiseach about Dáil reform because since taking office he has not volunteered to have one. The guillotine is increasingly being used to ram legislation through the House without proper debate.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: This practice is totally contrary to the specific commitment made by both parties in the programme for Government in which they signed up to ensuring that non-emergency legislation would not be guillotined. The social welfare Bill, legislation on the property tax and other Bills were guillotined before and after Christmas and the practice is being continued in the case of the Houses of the...
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Perhaps the Minister would outline the purpose of the motion.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Minister outline what is involved?
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I would like the Minister to set out what committees will be affected.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Minister name the committees involved?