Results 39,341-39,360 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: What I decided to do, as then Minister for Foreign Affairs, was find an alternative set of savings, reducing in many embassies-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----the numbers of staff but keeping a presence on the ground in many of the smaller eastern European states. There clearly were alternatives. Those who have hyped up this for political reasons are members of the Taoiseach's political party and the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Creighton, who should be supporting the Tánaiste or, at least, acting...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----but she has made all the running in the Taoiseach's party on the embassy in the Vatican.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: When the Taoiseach says "review", what does he mean? Since the budget, there are been ten such reviews of various policies and we have got no concrete clarification or specifics around those reviews.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: It has not happened yet.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: We live in a democracy.
- Written Answers — Constitutional Amendments: Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 606: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether it will be possible to hold the children's rights referendum in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1933/12]
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: Who?
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is smiling, he does not seem to know.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: As part of Question No. 9 I asked the Taoiseach about the intended timetable for the establishment and the work of the constitutional convention, whether one exists and, if so, whether it will be put before the House. As the party that brought in the 1937 Constitution, a republican constitution emulated by others throughout the globe, the challenge facing us is to enhance it. It is an...
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: There is an issue in terms of how many referendums the Government can get through. The timetable of the convention is important because one year of the lifetime of this Oireachtas has gone. The Oireachtas needs reform. If anything, things are going backwards in terms of parliamentary democracy. The Seanad is a separate question but the Taoiseach has stated that it only makes sense if it...
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate that, but my question relates to the work of the constitutional convention. Will it be denied the opportunity to tease out that issue and to put its views?
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made regarding the proposed referendum to abolish Seanad Ãireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8006/12]
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: My question related to the progress made in regard to the proposed referendum to abolish the Seanad, and I did not get much beyond a statement that work is proceeding, which has been the line for the past 12 months. There seems to have been very little work put into this in advance of the election and one could be of the view that this proposal was tabled with a view to electoral popularity...
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: Could the Government produce an interim paper on the challenges relating to any constitutional proposal to abolish the Seanad? The Taoiseach has just articulated some of the challenges in question.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is facing the same fate as many nursing homes.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach was in a dense fog an hour ago.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: Less hyperbole, exaggeration and partisanship might be a wiser position for the Taoiseach to take in the fullness of time. North American investors have realised we are serious for more than 30 years. That is the reason the top ten pharmaceutical companies in the world and some of the biggest names in technology are located in Ireland.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is also the reason we have, across the West, the largest cluster of medical device companies in Europe. Solid industrial advancement has been made in the past 30 years and has stood the test of time. This sector of the economy has proven particularly resilient in the teeth of the worst global recession since 1929. On the amendment on child protection, will the Government consider...