Results 36,061-36,080 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach offered 12 midnight.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I understand the Minister may have understandable reasons for bringing the Bill in and I am not questioning his bona fides in that regard. The Dáil is being asked to consider legislation of grave and profound importance that could and will have profound implications for many people. This Bill will be gone through in considerable detail and perhaps subsequently challenged by people...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I would appreciate it if the Government could circulate the arrangements for timing but slots of 15 minutes, ten minutes and a five minute wrap up with no real Committee Stage to allow for any detailed examination of the Bill is unacceptable and I seek an adjournment of the House for us as a party and other parties to consider the legislation.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: My party's finance spokesman has just arrived into the House just having been-----
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is a serious issue.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is legislation being put before us. My party's finance spokesman has just been briefed. We on this side of the House have not read the Bill.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I do not think anybody has read this Bill.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I do not have the schedule from the Whip. There is something fundamentally wrong-----
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----with asking us to pass something that we have not even read for even ten minutes. We must oppose the order. I am seeking an adjournment of the House for a further period to allow for a very preliminary reading of the Bill to allow us to make some assessment of it. At this particular stage, we have not seen the Bill. It is extraordinary that we would be asked to consider a Bill we had...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Not yet.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will it be in the Mayo colours or the Cork colours?
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am almost concluded. I get no sense from the Taoiseach's speech or from Ireland's Presidency that any effort has been made to articulate a broader revision about a budget that still only accounts for approximately 1% of the overall European budget despite this being a time of crisis. The budget will have direct repercussions on the size of the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, and the...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: We will shortly mark two years since the Government took office. This anniversary will see another outpouring of the self-congratulation which has become the hallmark of this Administration. The clear and growing disillusionment of members of the public with the Government is directly linked to its non-stop claims of action and leadership which do not have the slightest connection to...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach may recall that I looked for the paper for months but it never appeared. We now learn it did not exist, although the Taoiseach got a good year out of it in the House. As was written yesterday, Government Ministers have cried wolf on Europe too many times and no one any longer believes their public statements. As the Taoiseach is aware, he and his colleagues produced a budget...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I refer to promised legislation in the context of the traceability of horses. As the Taoiseach is aware, a major scandal is unfolding with deeply profound consequences for the food industry and the beef industry in particular because of the contamination of beef products with horsemeat and with all the consequences this entails. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Are there times for the publication of those papers?
- Death of Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Ar son Pháirtí Fhianna Fáil agus ar mo shon phearsanta féin, déanaim comhbhrón le chlann Shane McEntee, go háirithe le Kathleen, Aoife, Vincent, Helen, Sally agus a mháthair, Madge, agus déanaim comhbhrón le Pháirtí Fhine Gael. Níl aon amhras ann gurb duine den chéad scoth ab ea Shane McEntee. Polaiteóir den...
- Death of Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Is this to happen now?
- Death of Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I received no notification that this was happening.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am not in any shape or form pursuing this in an adversarial way or in an idle way or in a speculative way but, in essence, the report, substantive and comprehensive as it is, does not take away any stigma in its entirety. The only effective way for any stigma to be removed for the women involved is by the State formally apologising to the women concerned, which essentially involves saying...