Results 37,701-37,720 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is back to adversarial and partisan politics.
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Fiscal Advisory Council has published a weighty and substantive report on the current situation of the economy and, in particular, on debt sustainability and policy regarding consolidation of the public finances. It makes serious, if somewhat unpalatable, recommendations. What concerns me is that the only response from the Government to date has been to the effect that it is not bound...
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is somewhat disconcerting that there has been an almost nonchalant dismissal of the report because it raises serious issues in regard to our current trajectory. Whatever one's perspective, we need to discuss it. Will the Taoiseach indicate when he will publish the Thornhill report on property tax? The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government confirmed that it has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Both.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: We were in a modest location. There was no Carton House for us.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach's position?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach support the Commission's view or the German view?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach want all banks to be supervised?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach in favour of the Commission's position that all banks be supervised by the ECB or of the German position?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: What about the technical paper between the troika and the Government? Does the Taoiseach remember the famous technical paper?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach got approximately six months out of it on Leaders' Questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: So it has disappeared.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is one of the best at spinning. He got half a year out of that technical paper which never existed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Was it shredded?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach mentioned hallucinations in referring to other Deputies but it was his own party and the Labour Party that dramatically raised expectations before the last election. It was said that bondholders would be burned and such reckless comments were made during the election; the year and a half since has been a long journey but it is extraordinary for the Taoiseach to use a phrase...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: May I ask a supplementary question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: I have approximately five questions on this issue and the Taoiseach covered them all in his opening reply. Over recent months, there seem to have been very intense discussions taking place across Europe on actions to tackle the eurozone debt crisis. Prime Ministers have been crisscrossing the Continent holding meetings to promote their national positions and to seek agreement. It seems the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but it is not in line with the principle as agreed in June. We do not seem to have any sense of movement in this regard. Deputy Adams asked the Taoiseach about Chancellor Merkel's comment, as reported today, that she will not countenance any change for quite some time and her statement that Greece and Spain are her highest priority. I refer also to the comment that the banking union...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: I accept that.
- Constitutional Referendum: Announcement by Taoiseach (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----