Results 39,101-39,120 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Do not worry about my election document, that is all it was.

Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Do not worry about commitments or promises. They can ignore them.

Official Engagements (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the comments the Taoiseach repeatedly made in the United States to the effect that the 2011 budget has been central to restoring international confidence in Ireland. I accept that it would be too much to expect the Taoiseach to acknowledge the fact that he voted and then ran an election campaign against that budget. Does the Taoiseach agree the deep connections which have been...

Official Engagements (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: On skills availability and the 800 placements in the institutes of technology - a matter to which reference has been made for the past five or six months - there are a number of ready-made solutions. It is time for a more hands-on approach from the institutes of technology and the Department of Social Protection to match people with skills. There are people with qualifications who cannot...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: I wish to raise a number of items. Maidir le Bille na Gaeltachta, tá sé ar intinn ag an Rialtas deireadh a chur le toghcháin Údarás na Gaeltachta ach cathain a mbeidh an Bille sin ag teacht ar an bhfód? Bunaíodh comhchoiste Chomh-aireachta na Gaeilge anuraidh ach níor tháinig sé le chéile ach faoi dhó. Is oth liom é sin a rá mar léiríonn sé easpa thiomántais don Ghaeilge...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Cén fáth go bhfuil an Rialtas á dhéanamh sin? Nach droch scéal atá ann, i ndáiríre?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Ní bheidh aon chumacht ag an ghnáth dhuine.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: An féidir leis an Taoiseach an Bille sin a chur ar ceal? Bhéadh sin i bhfad níos fearr do mhuintir na Gaeltachta. Tá siad ar buillle faoi seo.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: For his Labour Party colleagues?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach explain to the Minister Fine Gael's long-term commitment to this in its policy? Does the Labour Party understand and realise this?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Ar thuig siad gur Era Nua a bhí i gceist ag an Taoiseach féin?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Tá sean-taithí ag an Teachta Byrne ar páirtithe nua. Bhí sé chinn is dócha, ó Sinn Féin the Workers Party go dtí Democratic Left, go dtí the Workers Party, go dtí Páirtí an Lucht Oibre.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Gabh mo leithscéal.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Did he issue a leaflet on it?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Tuigeann an Taoiseach all right.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government has announced the legal requirement to hold a referendum on the fiscal treaty. The legal advice, however, has not been published and I would like the Taoiseach to tell the House if he intends to publish that advice. It is my belief he should and that it would be helpful. The public fundamentally need the most comprehensive form of information possible on this treaty, a...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for bringing clarity to some elements of this issue, particularly to the comments made this morning. I suggest some Ministers, whether they mean it, are adding to the sense of heightened expectation in relation to the promissory note.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: I refer to various comments, predictions and hints emanating from Ministers. In some respects, more remarks are coming from the Labour Party side than from the Fine Gael side.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: That seems to be what is happening. The more important part of the Taoiseach's reply was his suggestion "no timeline" applies to the negotiations on the promissory note. Is the Government not working to a timeline, in the light of the imminence of the first repayment that has to be made? European mechanisms in terms of banking issues which were not in place at the time are now in place....

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government has not yet put anything to the central banks.