Results 37,261-37,280 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (18 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to tackle drug driving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45186/12]
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: We are not getting any information.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: May we have the documentation on the primary care centres?
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is not.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is wilful and deliberate withholding of information.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is a serious issue.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is uncalled for.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will the Minister outline the legislative timeline for the establishment of the strategic investment bank and for the legislation on the promised amendment to the Official Secrets Act? Despite the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach giving a clear commitment that all of the documentation in respect of the selection of primary care centres would be made available to the House and despite the...
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Everything gets referred to freedom of information. When will the legislation be before the House?
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: There is nothing transformational about the current practice.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: They are not doing that. That is the point. The Taoiseach's response is that the Government would like the banks to sit down with their customers but they are not doing so. That is what Fiona Muldoon, the head of banking regulation at the Central Bank, and the Secretary General of the Department of Finance clearly said yesterday. The Taoiseach wrote last year to the regulator and notes...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: As a follow-on, it is causing immense damage to and is a huge drag on the domestic economy.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is time for action and to change the orthodoxy of the Taoiseach's approach which has not worked to date. It is not I who is saying it has not worked but the Secretary General of the Department of Finance and the head of banking regulation. I ask the Taoiseach to look again at the Personal Insolvency Bill 2012 and to remove the veto he proposes to give banks in terms of resolving...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: They are happy with the Bill.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It gives banks a veto.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the head of banking regulation at the Central Bank, Ms Fiona Muldoon, made a very frank and honest statement in which she outlined what was not being done about the mortgage crisis. We have raised this issue on a continual basis for the past 18 months. Yesterday, it was confirmed that half of the 168,000 owner-occupier mortgage holders in arrears have no formal arrangement in...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: What would be completely unacceptable would be to repeat what happened this year. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, came into this House without notice to announce a supposed breakthrough in regard to this year's repayment. All that actually happened was that a promissory note which could be restructured with little difficulty has been converted into normal sovereign debt. It took...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach about that earlier at Question Time but he did not reply to me.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: The ECB would like the entire debt to be converted into normal sovereign debt but we should absolutely refuse to do this. After a year and a half of false dawns, non-existent technical papers - we have never been able to get a hold of that technical paper between the troika and the Taoiseach because it probably never existed - and distractions, it is time for the Taoiseach to actually...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Since the leaders of Europe last met they have yet again failed to show the urgency or vision required to tackle this unprecedented economic crisis. Having announced that they had made a "decisive" breakthrough, they then entered into three months of backtracking by some countries and inaction by others.