Results 601-620 of 49,960 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: For all that, the Opposition has manufactured a political row and has raised this issue to heights that are quite farcical given the enormity of the issues we have to face as a country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: If I may say-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Again, I respect-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I respect the rights of every Deputy who is elected to this House. I respect their rights.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I respect their rights to be heard-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----as well as their rights to speak.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: There is an attempt already to frustrate my attempt to speak here this afternoon in response to Deputy McDonald.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: In a more serious vein, the Opposition has been endeavouring to, if you like, direct or dictate a new departure, whereby it becomes the Opposition-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Opposition is now saying that it is up to it to decide who sits where in this House, who forms what group-----
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: During my visit to Washington D.C. for St. Patrick’s Day, I met with representatives from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the American Jewish Committee (AJC). It was a useful opportunity to listen to the concerns of these groups and to discuss how better to combat antisemitism which is sadly on the rise globally. I updated the representatives on the most recent actions taken...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The table below details amounts spent on all goods, services and works for the five years 2019 to 2023 (the last year for which audited figures are currently available) by the Department of the Taoiseach and the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) - the only body under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach. All procurement by the Department of the Taoiseach and...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Section 2 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1974 explicitly provides that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) shall be independent in the performance of their functions. One of the ways that effect is given to this independence is that funding for the Director’s Office is provided through a separate Vote; Vote 5 – Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. While I...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Department did not have any secondments from consulting firms in the period specified.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Neither the Department of the Taoiseach nor the National Economic and Social Development Office - the only body under the aegis of the Department - have awarded any contracts to, or used the services of, the hotel in question from 1st November 2024 to date.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Media (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The information sought by the Deputy in relation to the Department of the Taoiseach and the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) – the only body under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach - is set out in the tables below. Department of the Taoiseach Platform Total Videos* Videos with Speech** Videos with Speech that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commemorative Events (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----was a member of the Labour Party and had a very distinguished career here in terms of equality legislation in particular so there is an honourable and very positive Jewish tradition in Ireland and I think this is something we must protect. It is a small community. That is the context. In response to Deputy Bacik on hate speech legislation, that Act was amended last year. We just...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commemorative Events (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Boyd Barrett attacked Germany. He has never attacked Hamas. He has never condemned Hamas for 7 October.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commemorative Events (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have invited the Deputy on a number of occasions to condemn the Hamas attack on 7 October and he has refused every single time. That kind of moral equivalence is reprehensible, to be honest, because what happened on 7 October was reprehensible, and-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commemorative Events (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 23 to 30, inclusive, together. On Monday, 27 January, I joined other world leaders at a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and to commemorate international Holocaust remembrance day. It was a day where we remembered the unique horrors of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews from across Europe were murdered in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commemorative Events (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the comments by Deputy Daly. We can never forget the exceptionalism of the Holocaust. It is important that we mark it and that is why I was determined, as Taoiseach, to visit Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In particular, it may be the last occasion when we hear the voices of actual survivors. With regard to retaining the right...