Results 36,741-36,760 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach if he has approached persons to chair the Constitutional Convention and the responses that have been received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45693/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach if he has met the new Chairman of the Constitutional Convention; the areas that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48012/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach the date on which the Constitutional Convention will convene its first plenary meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49611/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I welcome the appointment of Mr. Tom Arnold. On Saturday, it became clear that there is a restricted agenda imposed by the Government on the work of the convention. It has undermined the idea of radical reform of the Constitution. The difference between the rhetoric of the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste and the reality of the agenda was striking. On Saturday, the Taoiseach gave a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The recommendation should go straight to the Dáil, for the Dáil to have an opinion on whether it is good idea. The Taoiseach is proposing the Government takes possession of it and that the Dáil does not see it until the Taoiseach has made up his mind whether it is a good idea. That is the problem.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I asked a question about marriage equality.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I asked a question on whether particular groups would be invited.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: In terms of corporate tax, the issue is not so much our policy, which is clear, in terms of maintaining the rate but that in previous times the Administration did issue documentation suggesting we were a tax haven which it had subsequently to correct. The Taoiseach has contacts with the business community and with American companies. We have double taxation laws with many countries. We are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach if he held any bilaterals on his recent trip to America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45688/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I take it that as Ireland will hold the EU Presidency, the Taoiseach will be invited to participate in the G8 summit. Will the Taoiseach confirm that? Prime Minister Cameron's decision on the location of the summit is important and I welcome it. The positive relations between the US and Ireland are beneficial in an ongoing sense, taking in social culture and economic life in both nations....
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is in very bad form.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I have made no claims or allegations.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I was not at the Labour Party meeting. I asked the Taoiseach a simple question. I know that the Minister, Deputy Quinn, has come out to say he has confidence in the Minister for Health, but did he make those comments at the party meeting or not?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is the simple question I asked the Taoiseach, but he avoided answering it yet again, just as the Minister, Deputy Quinn, avoided answering it yesterday.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: He neither confirmed nor denied making those comments. We know that the Labour Party Deputies agree with opposition Deputies on the Minister for Health's performance, including all those whose home help hours have been cut, the debacle over primary care centres and the attack on people with disabilities. That is why Labour Deputies do not have confidence in the Minister for Health.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Many Fine Gael Deputies and Ministers do not either.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: We are on the cusp of yet another major health Estimate that will wreak further damage on health services. I just want to ask this simple question: did the Minister, Deputy Quinn, confirm to the Taoiseach that he made those comments at the Labour Party Parliamentary Party meeting, "Yes" or "No"? Did the Taoiseach talk to him about it and did he confirm it?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: What does the Taoiseach mean by that?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Neither the Taoiseach nor the Minister, Deputy Quinn, has denied it, so it must be the truth.