Results 36,901-36,920 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Meetings (12 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has met representatives from the drinks industry recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50877/12]
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Get off the stage.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Was it really?
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government issued its materials after the writ was moved.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: A disgraceful performance.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: He changes the story all the time.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should acknowledge that he was wrong.
- Tributes to Staff Member (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: On behalf of my party, I thank Barry for his unfailing courtesy. I ask him to avoid watching "Oireachtas Report" every evening.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Today saw the publication of the Chief Justice's judgment on the competence of the Government in its handling of the children's referendum, particularly with regard to the booklet, website and advertisement published by the Government. The Chief Justice said that all three failed the test of being fair, equal and impartial. They failed to be neutral, failed to hold the scales equally...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I know that, but this is a serious issue-----
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----that goes to the very heart of our Constitution. It is the question of who decides how to change or amend the Constitution. It is a serious judgment, and I ask the Taoiseach, in line with commitments in the programme for Government, to provide special time, early in the new Dáil session, for a full debate on this judgment. I ask that the Minister concerned come before the House...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----and incompetent approach was adopted by the Government, in which it broke every rule in the book in terms of the material it published.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: We have been fobbed off before. When the initial judgment came out we had no debate. In the Seanad they had a special notice question immediately on the publication of the first judgment. There has been no meaningful discussion in the aftermath of the referendum about what was a serious breach by the Government-----
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----regarding the holding of the referendum and the material it published.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: There is nothing done through the Whips.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: It does not happen. The Chief Whip-----
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Chief Whip is not consulting anybody. It is his way and no one else's.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. We are opposing the Order of Business today as a protest against how the House is being dealt with and organised this week. There is an extraordinary attempt to suppress any meaningful articulation of issues around, for example, the Social Welfare Bill. It is being rammed through the House utilising the guillotine approach. On Friday we will have a property tax Bill....
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government wants to ram this thing through this week, suppress dissent and use the guillotine until it gets this thing safely through by Friday evening.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: It can be changed.