Results 36,081-36,100 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Everybody in this House would, in the first instance, have to commend and pay tribute to Senator Martin McAleese and his team for the comprehensive and substantive report which has revealed hitherto unknown facts about State involvement in the Magdalen laundries. It was the right decision to set up such a committee. It was a good decision. It is a comprehensive and substantive report....
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I wish to have this formally clarified. Can amendments be tabled? In reality there is no point in going through a charade.
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Can they be tabled verbally?
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: As per the Government decision and the Order of the House.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Industrial Relations Issues (6 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions he has held with the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors regarding Garda working conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6044/13]
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is a concern that the country's best performing and most strategically important hospitals are being hit with massive budget cuts. St. James's Hospital is to face the biggest cut of €9 million and it is hard to understand how it will cope with the pressures given the case mix of that hospital. The allocation appears to be more about getting rid of the deficits of existing...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Where do we stand with the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill and the health (amendment) Bill, particularly in terms of the hospitals that will now be cut so dramatically?
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish the criteria by which those allocations are made?
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: It was not done on historical spend, it was done on case mix.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: It was based on case mix.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Do not do it.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Do not do it.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: He will not get it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I accept the Taoiseach's proposition that there is no hierarchy of victims. Will the Taoiseach confirm that it is his view that the murder of RUC officers was completely unacceptable and not justified? I say that because we need honesty and transparency in the current era.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have met former members of Sinn Féin, some of whom were combatants, who would acknowledge that what went on was wrong, in hindsight and who would say that the greatest problem that the Sinn Féin leadership has is that it will not acknowledge that what went on was wrong, for too long. Many RUC officers were murdered in appalling circumstances, in very cowardly circumstances-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of booby trap bombs, in terms of no capacity to defend themselves and so forth. If we are to have any chance of reconciliation into the future, that acknowledgement needs to happen. The idea that, as happened last week, one would try to distinguish between the murder of a garda on this island and the murder of an RUC person on this island was incredible and basically, it was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin cannot, on the one hand, justify the murder of RUC officers and ---
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----in the same week-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----ask for a Border poll. If we want unity between people on the island-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have spoken to people who are relatives of RUC officers and they do not make the distinction between the uniforms, or their uncles and aunts.