Results 39,121-39,140 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- 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.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: That depends on how well we do in the European championships.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: What of the Connacht final?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: Explain that to Labour.
- Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department availing of the early retirement scheme; the positions they held; if they will be replaced; if services will be affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7779/12]
- Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the way his Department is being decreased in size to transform into a Cabinet office that oversees the delivery of the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9357/12]
- Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff and grades they hold in his Department in March 2011 and in February 2012 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9358/12]
- Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff and grades held that are employed in the Government Information Service and those who service MerrionStreet.ie; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9359/12]
- Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons who will be given the responsibility for the implementation of the 2012 Action Plan for Jobs in his Department; if there will be additional persons recruited or if they will be transferred from other Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9361/12]
- Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the number of speech writers he has that do not normally work in his Department; the way they are paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9364/12]
- Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: I asked six of the questions in this block of ten questions. Rather than spending too much time on this aspect, it is worth noting from the information the Taoiseach has supplied that his promise to slim down the Department of the Taoiseach radically has clearly been abandoned and the same goes for his nine-year promise to get rid of what he used to call the propaganda units in the...
- Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: I would argue that, across the foreign affairs brief, it is vital there would be a coherence and an integration. It is not just about Europe on its own.
- Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is about how Europe interacts with the emerging countries, including in Asia and South America, and European policy is critical to that relationship with other parts of the world. The idea that a section on European affairs stands alone is misplaced in terms of the conduct of foreign policy. On the evolution of European policy and how it relates to other blocs across the world, it is...