Results 42,101-42,120 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach get briefing material?
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should answer the question he was asked.
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: It is not for me to attend Committee Stage; it is for the spokesperson.
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach get briefing material from the Department of Finance?
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am not worried about the past.
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Why will the Taoiseach not answer? Did he get advice?
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: It appears to be nil.
- Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach when he intends to personally meet with the newly appointed Ministers in the North. [12835/11]
- Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he has implemented any changes to the Northern Ireland section of his Department; and his views on its role. [12096/11]
- Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any contact with the newly elected first Minister and Deputy first Minister of Northern Ireland; the level of contact he has had to date; and when he will next meet them. [13621/11]
- Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for discussion at the next North, South Ministerial council on the 10 June 2011. [13622/11]
- Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach agree there has been a surprising lack of engagement by Ministers with their counterparts in the North in the three months since the appointment of the Government? One cannot present informal and brief meetings as substantive engagements. It is accepted that in order to ensure we cement the advances of recent years it is important there be regular, formal substantive...
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider allowing joint Oireachtas committees play a greater role in the selection of candidates to State boards other than chair persons. [10466/11]
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will allow appointees to State boards other than chairpersons, to appear before Oireachtas committees to assess their suitability. [10467/11]
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach agree that this is a significant reversal from previous positions he adopted on this issue? It is now very clear that the Government will appoint chairpersons and that a person will only resign if he or she makes a fool of himself or herself before the designated committee. If the Taoiseach believes the system of appointing persons to State boards is wrong, why is he not...
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am not responsible for the pre-election promises the Taoiseach made. He should allow himself to be judged by the commitments he made. He can comment all he likes on previous governments and previous Ministers. He was also a Minister and he appointed in accordance with tradition, friendship, Fine Gael trustees and so on like that. Does the Taoiseach not agree that the system the...
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----when he gave authority to the committee to nominate people. Does the Taoiseach not agree that the Government has rowed back from its pre-election commitment to allow a public appointments service to screen, if one likes, potential appointees to boards and to make those lists available to Ministers? That has all been dropped now. Why has the Taoiseach reversed that commitment he made...
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should have asked the Minister, Deputy Varadkar.
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I believe the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, might be meeting them now.
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should answer the question.