Results 35,761-35,780 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (5 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a higher education grant in respect of a person (details supplied)in County Dublin; when this application will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11525/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (5 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline the actions his Department is taking in relation to tackling youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6830/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (28 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Finance if negotiations are ongoing with the EU and ECB in respect of dealing with loss making tracker mortgages held by the covered banks; his views on the way the issue can be dealt in a way that supports the viability of the banking sector here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10610/13]
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources promised it. He announced yesterday that there would be a broadcasting tax.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: There will have to be legislation to bring it in.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: So the Government is going to cut them. The Taoiseach should acknowledge that what went on in the past ten years was good for disability.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's predecessor, Brian Cowen, was quite effective in this regard.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Brian Cowen was the first Minister for Health and Children to bring any improvements to people with disabilities. If the Taoiseach had any generosity in him, he would acknowledge that and stop playing politics all the time.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Brian Cowen was the first Minister for Health and Children to be acknowledged by people with disabilities to have made improvements for them. The Taoiseach, however, continues to undermine this every day.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is indeed.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is no new scheme being proposed.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should be honest. The scheme is gone.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources confirmed yesterday that there will be a new universal broadcasting tax which will apply to people irrespective of whether they own televisions. When can we expect to see the Broadcasting Bill and the legislation to replace the licence fee and give effect to this new tax? Could the Government provide details of the issues...
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is too late for the mobility allowance.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is not in the review.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is the Government's document - no Department of Transport.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Government has already cut the home help scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is being taken away.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I do not have a brass neck with regard to disability issues. I stand over my record as Minister for Education and Minister for Health in introducing special needs assistants in schools, which was a radical departure for its time and has stood the test of time. I also introduced resource teachers and provided significant disability grants for people leaving second level schools and so forth.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Much of this is now under threat from the Government owing to the lack of an overall strategy to implement a national disability strategy. The key point is that the language the Taoiseach is using and the language the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch used this morning and at the parliamentary committee three weeks ago is telling recipients of the allowance that they will not receive...