Results 37,701-37,720 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: I know all that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is the point we have been making for the last 12 months. I give some credit to Mario Draghi, in contrast with his predecessor.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The troika paper has disappeared into thin air. Apparently it does not exist. It was meant to set out various scenarios. Everyone in this House-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----would be supportive in terms of debt sustainability but the position of not answering any questions in the House, not sharing information with the House-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----is not helping an honest debate in this country or across the eurozone in general. That is the basic point I have been trying to make.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: He is back at it again.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach accepted on the record that Europe made a mistake.
- 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.