Results 37,661-37,680 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Some time ago the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, announced he would effect a transformation of the system of allowances in the public sector. He stated he wanted to achieve savings of €75 million this year and €150 million next year. There is no question this was one of the big ideas of the new Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. If...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: One out of 1,100. This is an extraordinary outcome of very lengthy examination from a new, up and coming Department meant to cut a swathe through relics of the past. Let us be honest, some of these allowances are relics and belong to a different era. How did the Minister get into this scenario, leading people up the hill and back down again? Will the Taoiseach outline the reasoning and...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: I am trying to be constructive but that was a fairly pathetic response to the situation. A letter was sent last week. What have Ministers been doing for months on the Croke Park agreement?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Everyone was of the view that people were endeavouring to achieve and realise as many savings as possible over the past 18 months. To state that a letter of instruction was issued last week is a rather pathetic response. My point is that yesterday's announcement with regard to squeezing more out of the Croke Park agreement was about approximately €3 million out of €1.5 billion....
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach spoke about front-line services. These are being cut. This is about social solidarity. We are speaking about some relics and outdated allowances while at the same time home help allowances are being cut.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Hundreds and thousands of hours are being cut and across the board services for people with disabilities, as we found out only a month ago, are being cut savagely.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: There is a need-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----particularly in the context of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report, to invoke clause 1.28 of the Croke Park agreement-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----to get people around the table and state that saving €3 million out of €1.5 billion is not a realistic outcome for a serious issue. Surely this lack of success or any sense of achievement or realisation of savings is justification in itself for invoking clause 1.28 to convene a serious substantive meeting of everyone to get them around the table on such an issue. Does the...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The numbers have nothing to do with the Croke Park agreement.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views regarding dissident activity in areas of Dublin particularly since the reported activities following a recent funeral in north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38809/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Location of Victims' Remains (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has met Mr Geoff Knupfer chief investigator of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39021/12]
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is not democracy.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: I would like the Taoiseach to correct the record of the House. During Leaders' Questions, I asked about health and the Taoiseach responded by telling a story that he met with a company in Kiltimagh called Home Care Medicals that stores unused equipment. He gave a misrepresentation of the work of that company that seems to arise from a misunderstanding the Taoiseach had with the owner of...
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is. It relates to a correction of remarks about a third party.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Could it not be published now?
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: So much has been published by the Government, through leaks and otherwise, about this tax. The Government announced something else today. Surely, the easiest thing would be to publish it.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: This is obfuscation again.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is a matter for the Government.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is not a political decision. It is a definitive governmental decision to delegate authority to a Minister of State.