Results 701-720 of 51,889 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The doctor should maybe contact the Minister. We work with the World Health Organization. Some doctors wanted to do it by another route through Jordan. We can look at that but let us do it properly, through the proper channels, because these are serious matters. These are children with serious injuries. We have to make sure their parents are on board. Family unification is there and we...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am dealing with it now but it is an important point. This is a serious matter. You cannot have a group forming in any locality and simply say, "Ignore all your normal regulatory procedures for visa applications". That is not possible. You have to get the documentation right. We have to know who is coming in with the children. We have to know the passports are proper. A lot of that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Just hear me out, please. For the children, additional documents must be verified, including birth certificates and letters of consent to establish the relationship between the child and the adult they are travelling with. Most of the children would not have been travelling with a parent. Then there are all sorts of issues about employment, other ties and indicating that a person has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will come to that. The basic thing that should have happened is that an appeal should have been entered.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: That was today, at 1 o'clock?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: It does not sound right to me that an appeal would come in in that manner given that a week or more has passed since the original decision. The whole thing is somewhat perplexing. That is all I am saying.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I do not know whether GAA Palestine is affiliated to the GAA. Normally what would happen is a sporting organisation would come to the Government of the day and say "We want to organise X, Y and Z" well in advance.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I do not know who is behind the whole thing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, look that is-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Who's campaign is it? Is it the Deputy's campaign or who's campaign is it? What is going on?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: So would I.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, but I do not understand the way the Deputy is dealing with it. It seems to be more about the campaign than the children. I hate saying that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am asking legitimate questions. There was no notification that anyone was coming. You do not just rock up to the Department of justice, ad hoc, and say "Minister, come down here". He might not even have been in the building.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: All of it suggests that something is not right, in my view. I am not saying anything was done wrong by the organisers but the whole thing seems haphazardly organised. That is all I can say.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is strange; that is all I can say.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are talking about children here. I think there should be a greater sense of organisation behind this and-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We want to help.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Apologies. Tibet will be on the EU-China forum. We always raise issues with China. China always responds, by the way, robustly and never has any issue with the matter being raised. We do not get a satisfactory response from our perspective. On the Dalai Lama and so forth, I could not agree with the Deputy more.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 to 17, inclusive, together. Ireland enjoys a deep and strong relationship with Canada, a country with which we share many values. Increasingly, that relationship has an economic focus. In recent times, we have expanded our presence in Canada with consulates opened in Vancouver and Toronto in addition to our embassy in Ottawa. We also have a strong...