Results 35,461-35,480 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Yet this is in the programme for Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I think it is about parliamentary accountability.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: No. The decision to table this proposition is a pre-emptive strike to prevent a situation in which the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, would come into the House to be specifically examined about his behaviour in releasing private information supplied to him by An Garda Síochána on the public airwaves to undermine a political opponent. Members on this side of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I referred to the context of the EU-US trade agreement.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Some 25 questions were covered in that reply and I had submitted eight questions. A number of broad areas were covered by the questions and the answer, including the G8 agenda, the undocumented Irish, Mr. Pat Finucane, the Israeli peace process in Gaza, Guantánamo Bay and the EU-US trade agreement. Europe and the US are still caught in what has been the worst economic downturn in 70...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the undocumented Irish with President Obama at his meeting in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13586/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the situation in Syria with President Obama at his meeting in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13587/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the lack of progress made in relation to an independent inquiry into the murder of Mr Pat Finucane with President Obama; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13588/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the bilaterals he attended when visiting the USA in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13589/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the new EU-US free trade agreement with President Obama; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13612/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the issues that were discussed with Mr. Stephen Spielberg when he met him; the actions, if any, that he will take as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15990/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the details of his meeting with Vice President Biden; the further actions that will be taken as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15993/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he met any Republican Senators in relation to the undocumented Irish in his most recent visit to Washington; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17251/13]
- Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is an appalling response. The debate later today will not be specifically about this issue, which the Taoiseach has camouflaged also. I did not say the Minister had said Deputy Mick Wallace had done anything wrong. The Taoiseach is a great man for answering questions that have never been asked and making points about points that have never been made. I never said that. Neither did...
- Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is at it again. I did not make that claim. I asked him a question.
- Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Was it right or wrong?
- Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is leader of the Government and cannot stand up and say whether it is right or wrong for a Minister for Justice to use private information given to him by An Garda Síochána to undermine a political opponent. That is the level he is at.
- Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: As the Taoiseach knows, on 15 May the Minister, Deputy Shatter, received a report from the Garda Commissioner in regard to allegations that were made concerning the improper cancellation of fixed charge notices. That report found no evidence of criminality in that area but, subsequently, on "Prime Time", in a debate with Deputy Mick Wallace, and even though he was armed with the facts of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates Issues (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance his assessment of the benefit to the economy of the recent ECB cut in view of the decision of financial institutions not to pass on the cut to customers with variable rate loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23926/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can foresee any changes to Ireland's corporation tax rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15991/13]