Results 35,221-35,240 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It has been filibustered.
- Order of Business (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: According to the latest figures from the Health Service Executive, more than 5,600 patients in Limerick have been waiting for four years or more for an outpatient appointment. Of those, more than 4,000 have been waiting four years or more for appointments at the orthopaedic hospital in Croom, while 1,400 have been waiting for appointments at the nearby Mid-Western Regional Hospital in...
- Order of Business (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: When is the gas regulation Bill due, given the Bord Gáis Energy sale?
- Order of Business (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach keeps saying that, but he is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy does not have the statistics. The opposite is true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Five or six questions have been tabled. Deputy Adams asked what could be done to get more timely answers to the questions that were tabled before the last summit. I suggest we go back to the two-day arrangement that prevailed in previous Dáileanna, when the Taoiseach of the day took questions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. That might give us a bit more time. It seems to me from what...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might discuss it with us before it becomes a fait accompli. We have been here for two and a half years now but no one has discussed a thing with me.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach wants to discuss it before he makes it a fait accompli.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: This should be about jobs.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will be distributing any documentation prior to the March EU Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12331/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he held any bilaterals when attending the EU Council meeting in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14639/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to or held a bilateral with President Nicos Anastasiades of Cyprus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15985/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or written to Mr Mario Monti since the recent election in Italy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16006/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to or had a bilateral with Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18350/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he circulated any papers at the most recent EU Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18354/13]
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The problem is that those policies are not working across Europe. That is the point. They are simply not working. Millions of people across Europe are unemployed and the levels of unemployment across the main European economies are unprecedented. Commentators from the IMF, Paul Krugman, the economist, and other distinguished statespeople have identified part of the problem as simply being...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The agricultural budget is being cut by 10% for the first time in the lifetime of Common Agricultural Policy. That money cut from that budget would have put funding into rural economies and the wider economy. The youth employment guarantee fund represents about €122 per unemployed young person across Europe. It is not a question of abstract economic theories that people are spinning...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The budget has been cut, the banking union has been delayed and downscaled from what was originally envisaged and there will be no discussions on reforms until the end of next year. I do not get any sense of leadership emerging from Europe. In particular, I believe there needs to be a radical rethink of where Europe is going and how it is going about coming out of this crisis. I ask the...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It should have been expanded at this time when we are in a recession.