Results 39,861-39,880 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: He is.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: I know what the Taoiseach is wishing for.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Sorry?
- Departmental Expenditure (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Defence the capital projects he intends to undertake during 2012. [38691/11]
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The devil was truly in the detail of the budget last week. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, boasted that there would be no cuts to primary weekly social welfare payments. However, the deeper one examines this budget, the more devastating and sinister the cuts become. Despite stating that payments to families at risk of poverty will remain unchanged, it is clear that as a...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am trying to maintain the anonymity of the people who wrote to us. The Taoiseach's answer does not give any sense of understanding the enormity of the impact of this premeditated budgetary change to means test those on family income supplement who are in receipt of the carer's allowance. People are saying they know we have a great deal on our plates but please stand up for them and their...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Government has been aware of this since September yet it took a decision which is having an enormous, devastating and incredibly damaging impact. The e-mails we are receiving on the budget describe it in language such as being "driven to despair" and "over the brink" or being "unable to deal with it". Some of those affected have mortgages while others do not. I cannot get over that any...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: It had choices.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: There are alternatives.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: We proposed alternative taxes but the Government did not agree with them.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is digging a bigger hole.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The problem I raise relates to more than one family.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The e-mails I received were general and will have been received by the Taoiseach also.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: This particular cut is affecting a small number of people in a disproportionate manner.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The DEIS schools have not been protected.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach any idea of what is going on? The DEIS schools have been savaged.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Nine teachers are gone from three DEIS schools in Deputy Coveney's constituency on the south side of Cork.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Government does not even know what it has done.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: If something has the word "disadvantage", the Government goes for it.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: It will happen to a savage extent. I have mentioned the loss of nine teachers.