Results 42,081-42,100 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Every time the Taoiseach is asked a question and is caught breaking a promise, he avoids answering the direct question asked. It seems his commitment to change has lasted about as long as the pledge of the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, on student fees. The Taoiseach will, I hope, have seen the detailed briefing on the damage done by the comments of the Minister for...
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am sure he would agree with that. This is what is being said in public analysis; I am just making the point.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach my question. The Taoiseach should put an end to the theme emerging in public discourse following the comments of the Minister, Deputy Varadkar. I acknowledge he has gone some way towards doing so.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach ought to clarify, to the country and wider international community, whether the positions he expressed publicly yesterday and on which he was quoted in respect of the bailout programme, which is to run to the end of 2013, to the effect that Ireland has sufficient money in all circumstances to deal with it its obligations and that there will be no need for a second bailout...
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: We are well on track according to the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is fairly normal.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: No. 23 on the Order Paper is the Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011. While I welcome the publication of the Government's Bill on corporate donations, it abandons the commitment to a complete ban outlined in the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: That programme stated that the Government will introduce necessary legal and constitutional provisions to ban corporate donations to political parties. The outline of the Bill that has been published will allow corporate donations to continue and confirms that there will be no constitutional ban put to the people. There will be no complete ban on corporations. In the light of the...
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Not at all.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Government voted down our Bill.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I would just like to make one point. Deputy Shatter's party has raised more in corporate donations in the last few years than any other political party in this House. That is a fact. His party has not been subjected to the same scrutiny.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Many of Deputy Rabbitte's people have been doing it as well for a long time.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: There has been agreement across the House for every party to commit to banning corporate donations. There is a Bill on the Order Paper and will the Taoiseach accept that Bill to give effect to the commitment that he himself made to ban corporate donations?
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The memory chip has been removed in the context of the Moriarty tribunal.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: No. 23 on the Order Paper deals with the constitutional issue. That is the point.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is avoiding the issue.
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the question I asked in regard to the jobs initiative. I refer to the analysis in regard to the impact of the pension levy on an already fragile pensions industry and sector. There is much concern about pensions provision in the public and private sectors.
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach a basic question. Did he receive advice and briefing materials on the impact of the pension levy? If he did, will he please make them available to Members of the House and publish them?
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Did the Department of Finance give the Taoiseach any briefing material?
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach. He should be upfront for once.