Results 42,321-42,340 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (11 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the difficulties with drafting legislation but a schedule would be useful. There is a sense of filling space in the business of the House over the past several weeks with various statements. I must add that Fianna Fáil has drafted a comprehensive and sound political donations Bill. If the Taoiseach accepted it, it could be moved to Committee Stage and by the summer recess...
- Order of Business (11 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I did not, I said the opposite.
- Order of Business (11 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Our Bill covers all the Moriarty tribunal report recommendations.
- Order of Business (11 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, but there was no admission of any inadequacy. I do not know from where the Taoiseach is picking that up.
- Order of Business (11 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is wrong. He should accept the legislation. Amendments can be made on Committee Stage. It is politics as usual.
- Electoral (Amendment) (Political Donations) Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
- Electoral (Amendment) (Political Donations) Bill 2011: Second Stage (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to share my time with Deputy Niall Collins. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on the Electoral (Amendment) (Political Donations) Bill 2011 and to urge its acceptance by the House. This proposed legislation puts forward a structured, comprehensive and legally sound basis for transforming how politics is funded in our...
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Earlier today, Commissioner Rehn made it clear that he expects Ireland to receive a reduction in interest payments relating to the support loan. He all but announced a reduction earlier today and it has been clear since the beginning of the year that this would happen. As expected, it appears from his statement to form part of a wider restructuring of support programmes for Greece and...
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The EU-IMF programme states that anything realised from the sale of State assets would be used to pay down the debt, but my question was about the reduction in the interest rate, the savings arising from that and how they will be used. Problematically, confusion is developing about the clear statements in the programme for Government and the revised EU-IMF agreement. In terms of the...
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am asking one in light of the matter raised. Given that there has been no change in the fiscal situation to force a change in the policies agreed ten weeks ago, will the Taoiseach explain the current status of the coalition's tax promise? The programme for Government states clearly that bands and credits will be maintained, but the Cabinet published a document last week stating that the...
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Is this a straightforward-----
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: It is a straightforward contradiction between two documents agreed by the Government.
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: This is another U-turn and broken promise.
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Which?
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I was not asking about the interest rate.
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: That was not the supplementary question at all.
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Government is saying that the figures are ahead of target and better than expected. The Ministers, Deputy Noonan and Deputy Howlin, have stated it.
- Adjournment Debate Matters (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Richard the Lionheart.
- Order of Business (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I seek leave to introduce a Private Members' Bill entitled the Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011.
- Order of Business (10 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: In the week that the Moriarty tribunal report was published the Taoiseach informed the House that a comprehensive programme of legislation in response would be announced within four weeks. That deadline passed a fortnight ago. When is it now proposed that the list will be published? I ask the Taoiseach to consider supporting the passage of the Bill on corporate donations that we will...