Results 38,421-38,440 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach serious?
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: What did you say to Chancellor Angela Merkel on the telephone?
- Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any contact with politicians in the United States of America in relation to a full public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12195/12]
- Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he highlighted the need for an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane during his recent visit to the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12196/12]
- Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he attended in Chicago, USA; the groups that he met; the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16197/12]
- Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he had meetings with those who attended the New York Stock Exchange with him on 19 March 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16198/12]
- Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: The grouping contains 17 questions covering anything which may or may not have been raised during the Taoiseach's St. Patrick's day visit to the United States of America. This is a wide range of questions with no real link to each other, which is very unsatisfactory and stems from the fact the Taoiseach is very determined to reduce the amount of time he must spend answering questions in the...
- Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----and hence should explain his subsequent comments. Did the Taoiseach raise with President Obama the intervention of the Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, and his complete opposition to the burning of bank bondholders? The Taoiseach's election commitment was to burn bank bondholders. It is reported that Mr. Geithner steadfastly, strongly and robustly opposed it. Did the...
- Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: If we had the normal two days we once had.
- Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not see it.
- Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (7 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he discussed the Europe China Trading Hub suggested for Athlone, County Westmeath, with the Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping during his recent visit here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23749/12]
- Written Answers — Croke Park Agreement: Croke Park Agreement (6 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 251: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on any meetings he or his officials attended on the Croke Park Agreement recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21420/12]
- Written Answers — Croke Park Agreement: Croke Park Agreement (6 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department has in relation to implementation of the Croke Park agreement both internally and across all other Governments Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21302/12]
- European Council: Statements (6 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach organise the distribution of an up-to-date text of his speech because there were a number of significant insertions, in particular in the middle after he said there were no conclusions to the summit? I know we can access the speech later but it would be useful if it could be sent to us. Clearly, the Taoiseach's speech illustrates how quickly the situation is moving....
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: I seek clarification from the Minister for Education and Skills on a specific point. I understand that today we are debating the European Communities (Amendment) Bill, which is an amendment to Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: I will speak, if I may. I did not interrupt anyone. Tomorrow we will have a discussion proper on the ESM Bill. I welcome the establishment of the ESM because this country does need to have potential access to a fund of that scale and size. We all criticised the European Union for the absence of mechanisms to respond to the type of crisis it has experienced in recent years. The...
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: I suggest to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the Minister that we could discuss, through the Whips, whether there would be an opportunity to have a longer debate on the ESM tomorrow. I do not wish to guillotine anything. More time should be provided. It is a serious subject. We have spent recent weeks discussing Europe in general on the hustings and the House should be in a position to...
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: I note the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is on his way out of the Chamber. I welcome him back.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Minister was missing in action for several weeks and his reappearance on polling day was telling. He more or less said to people, "I have not gone away; I will be back." Today there are thousands of students sitting the junior and leaving certificate examinations. Our best wishes go to all of them. Students who will sit the examinations next year, however, will not have the benefit of...
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Micheál Martin: Despite the provisions included in the Education Act which underpin and support the provision of a professional career guidance service in the education system, the damage of this budget cut is serious and will undermine the capacity of career guidance teachers to help students in the most challenging times of their lives in the latter half of their second level schooling. Will the Minister...