Results 36,141-36,160 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Reilly's late, late intervention.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: The point I am making is that the real emphasis of the Government should be on reducing the need for Members of the House to have to use freedom of information requests in the first place. Freedom of information legislation is used as a delaying tactic by those who want to prevent information from getting out. When the pension fund raid happened, for example, we raised the matter during...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach the number of Freedom of Information requests received in his Department in 2012; the number refused and the number granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50871/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that the strategy of the Government since it came into office has been the antithesis of everything it said before the election, in terms of transparency and the provision of information in a timely manner to Deputies and the public at large. We have repeatedly had to use the freedom of information process to garner information on a whole range of Government...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Law Reform Commission (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach if a programme of law reform has been agreed arising out of recommendations made by the Law Reform Commission as outlined in his Department's Strategy Statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49724/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Law Reform Commission (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: The statement of strategy for the Department of the Taoiseach commits it to drawing up a programme of law reform arising from the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission. How does the Department prioritise the legislation that is to be brought before the House? For example, the Personal Insolvency Bill 2012 took many months to prepare and bring before the House and it is only now...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Law Reform Commission (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: My question pertained to resources for the Departments. One of the issues arising is that while many recommendations will come forward their implementation through legislation could take a long time unless additional resources are allocated to the relevant offices, particularly in the Department of Justice and Equality in respect of cyberbullying and the Office of the Attorney General. The...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Buttimer is outrageous.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle must reprimand Deputy Buttimer. That was an outrageous intervention.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Not true.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach supported Roscommon too.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: I did not say that.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am asking "What are they?"
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am no wiser about the questions I asked. It is time for a little more transparency in terms of what is being asked. People are interested. They have been hearing for some time that a deal is certainly on the cards and will be concluded but no one has any idea what kind of deal is being discussed. Ultimately, when a deal arrives, will it be the real deal the Taoiseach was looking for or...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach keeps saying that but I never said it.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: What did he mean by catastrophic?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Over the past several months, particularly over the past several weeks, we have been led to believe that a deal to restructure the promissory notes was all but done. We on this side of the House support the need for a restructuring of our bank debt. As the Taoiseach said in Paris before Christmas, "Ireland was the first and only country which had a European position imposed upon it, in the...
- Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: On promised health legislation, a serious situation is developing in respect of access universal health care, which is the core aim of the Government in respect of its health policy. More than 40,000 people will have their medical cards taken from them under the health service plan and thousands of people are leaving private health insurance because of the increase in premia. Moreover,...
- Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Two years have elapsed without any governance of health.
- Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: While the Bill pertaining to health governance is being introduced next week, there has been no governance in health for the past two years and it is showing in terms of the management of the service itself.