Results 21-40 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: First of all, I am not shamefaced.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am not. That is all I will say for now.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy said a few things that are wildly inaccurate and wrong. She deliberately conflated trade with Israel with trade with the occupied territories, as did an earlier speaker. We need to be clear on what we are talking about. The occupied territories Bill is about the occupied territories.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: You are not clear.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: No sort of-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I do not need----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Standard practice is not to afford members of Government the courtesy of being allowed to respond.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I make no apologies for challenging the false assertions that have repeatedly been made in this house by those on the far left who are consistently trying to create-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: For examples, no airplanes are being facilitated to transport weaponry to Gaza or the Middle East. How dare people make the assertion that they are when they are not?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have condemned-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy said "airports".
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: That was deliberate. People have said that publicly as well. Deliberate attempts to create a misleading narrative on all of this are being made all over the place. Ireland has done more on this issue than any other country within Europe but we unfortunately do not have the power to stop Israel. We want Israel to stop. We have asked Israel to stop. We have asked the European Union to...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: She is trying to drive a wedge between the Irish people and Members of this House. That is wrong and regrettable.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, Deputy McDonald, why is what I said pathetic?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has not spoken to me about this case before now. Perhaps he can send the details to me. I am not clear whether the local authority has been approached in respect of this case and whether Jennifer was on the social housing list. It should be very possible to accommodate an 88-year-old in a council house. I do not know the background but it seems to me there is an obvious solution.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which he has raised with me previously. I certainly am open to doing as he proposed. The Government would be very positively disposed to working on such a proposal.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. I fully subscribe to his analysis of the importance of this programme. I will liaise with the Minister for Health, who is sitting beside me, and other Ministers to see whether we can free up some resources to commence the development of a team in the midlands.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: First, I did not strip Monaghan hospital of anything. It was the North Eastern Health Board that was in place at the time.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin had members on it. I cannot believe in one sense that the Deputy is back again at this-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The thing that should unite us all is the safety of patients and the people who go through our hospitals.