Results 561-580 of 49,960 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----to accommodate you when you lost a whole range of seats.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am fine.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Let us see what is being proposed. Private Members' business still lasts for 120 minutes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: There is no change to that. Sponsor time is still 40 minutes, no change.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin's time remains exactly as it was in the last Dáil.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: What is interesting is that each other Opposition grouping gains time in this Dáil under this proposal as compared with the last time out.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I can recall a time, when the Labour Party had a calamitous general election result, that we facilitated reducing the threshold to allow the Labour Party to have speaking rights. That is easily forgotten by the Deputy and her party members. There is no change in Ministers and Ministers of State responding to the Dáil. In other words, there is absolutely no change in terms of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: What is farcical is the extraordinary manufactured political row, which is wholly disproportionate to this issue-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: In other words, the change is very modest. It does not in any shape or form justify the level of dramatic action and feigned outrage that we are witnessing on the Opposition side.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I agree with Deputy that there are far more substantive and profound issues------
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----facing this country that we should now be getting on with, such as housing and disability services------
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and perhaps what will perhaps be the most significant and profound economic winds blowing in our direction that we have seen for quite some time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is what this Dáil and Oireachtas need to focus on. We also need to focus on the wars that are raging in Europe and the Middle East with appalling and savage loss of life and slaughter of people. Are we seriously suggesting that giving eight minutes per day-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----to backbench TDs is such a profound change in the Standing Orders that it necessitates the feigned outrage that we are witnessing-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I definitely do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I make the point that the level of change here is so minuscule when you look at it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The 60 TDs will get one chance a year to participate in this forum and that is exciting everyone. There will be one opportunity for a backbench TD to question me, the Taoiseach of the day, and the Opposition is all up to high doh with feigned outrage.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will make one final point. When an election happens, there is a fundamental obligation to form a Government-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----which has been completely lost of sight of-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and the importance-----