Results 36,841-36,860 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is not true. The Government is not doing that.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The respite care grant has been cut.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is sleight of hand. Pensioners' payments are down.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, the Tánaiste has brought politics, in terms of cynicism and public deception, to a new low.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Labour Party Members can smile and heckle all they like, but that is the reality. The Tánaiste's party put up those leaflets before the elections deliberately to mislead people, and we know why that was done. It was done because the party believed power was slipping from it and that Fine Gael would win the election. The Tánaiste made promises and commitments he simply could not keep.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Senator John Whelan has made the point that there is no shame in doing a U-turn in regard to these cuts, particularly in the case of child benefit and PRSI.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Senator Whelan warned that the ultimate shame will be on Labour Party and Fine Gael Deputies if they refuse to change tack and continue to impose unfair and regressive measures on the lowest-income people in this country. That is the reality of this budget; it is those on low and middle incomes who will suffer the most because of the choice the Government has made.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I admire the Tánaiste's commitment to democracy.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Labour Party had choices. It could have chosen to increase the universal social charge for higher earners. It could have chosen not to increase PRSI for low-paid workers.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: This is more deception from the Tánaiste. He is deceiving people with meaningless soundbites.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: What about cuts to VEC funding?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: As chairman Keaveney tweeted last night, the die has been cast. Labour and Fine Gael Deputies have voted, one and all, for some of the most regressive cuts to child benefit, respite grants and child clothing allowances, and an increase in tax for low paid workers. This is despite the fact the Labour Party made extraordinary commitments before the last general election. It has now broken...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: They then go and take €10 per month in child benefit off the first and second child and €18 off the third and fourth child. When pressed on breaking those promises, the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, said the other night: "Isn’t this the kind of thing you tend to do during an election campaign?" - in other words, you tend to make these kinds of promises. This basically means...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste might not like those words coming from me. To be fair, Senator John Whelan has perhaps put it far more succinctly, when he said he was one of the Labour candidates who put up and delivered those leaflets. He said: "We have broken that promise on child benefit, we misled the public and I have been made a liar of by the Budget cuts to child benefit."
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is what Senator John Whelan wrote in yesterday's The Star newspaper. He continued: "The betrayal of the public's trust just adds salt to wound." He then said in a message to, I think, every Deputy in the House, particularly to his own Deputies: "We know in our hearts and souls it is wrong, morally wrong, inequitable and unfair as these budgetary measures penalise ... low-income...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I want to ask the Tánaiste one very basic question. No one forced him to make those promises and no has forced him to break them. Why is the Fine Gael promise not to increase taxes on people earning over €100,000 more important than the Labour Party promise not to cut child benefit?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste did make commitments. We all remember, "It is Labour's way or Frankfurt's way".
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: We all remember that deception. The Tánaiste voted against every measure to correct the public finances in 2009 and 2010. He spoke on budgets from this side of the House-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----saying the Government was going to rob child benefit from people's pockets.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: He was Mr. Angry. Does he not remember Mr. Angry over there? He has now done a U-turn on every single thing he protested about.