Results 921-940 of 49,960 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. What is frustrating here is that the money has been allocated it seems to me. The officials on both sides, those in the local authorities and Uisce Éireann, should apply common sense and pragmatism and get this sorted. I ask that this would happen and I will ask the Minister. I met with Uisce Éireann some time back. The Government has...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: In terms of lay-offs, our thoughts have to be with the workers in the company or those who may be laid off - from our perspective, in Ireland - and we have to do everything we possibly can to make sure they can secure alternative employment. We have a strong industrial relations framework and strong employee protection rights in Ireland, along with legislation. We will do everything to...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have noticed, since the Government was formed, there has been a deliberate attempt at trying to present the Government as somehow rowing back on climate change and this is going to be the narrative now, whether it is true or not. The Deputy is articulating that idea, even though the Government and the programme for Government commits very strongly to the legal framework governing climate...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am. The Deputy-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----prefaced his remarks-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Thank you. There has been no resiling by Government from the climate change objectives of this country and the climate plan will be published - my understanding is that it will be in the next number of weeks. We did not deliberately not publish it. The outgoing Government and the Green Party did try to railroad a whole load of things through before the interregnum period; that would not...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----is something for the entire Oireachtas to give due consideration to and have a genuine debate about it, not something that is rammed through at the death of a Government.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: We have not. There has been good, constructive engagement with the Scottish Government, to be fair, over the last number of years on this issue. Actually, it was the last British Government that did not facilitate an agreement on research and so forth that had been arrived at between the Scottish Government and the Irish Government. We have reactivated that with the new British...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a very good idea from the Deputy and there are issues, as he has described, in Glanmire this week. Across the country, we have had appalling conditions of animal cruelty, particularly in respect of horses and that needs to stop and the agencies need to get stronger and be more effective. The idea of appointing an equine officer in every local authority makes absolute sense to me....
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a very good idea also. The methodology for the appointment of State boards changed some years ago; there is a greater reliance on the PAS system and I am not sure that has been ideal either. We need to look more broadly at experiences and expertise that would add a certain competence or discipline to a board, such as cost control or accountancy. There was an article written this...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: You have it right throughout every debate. There is not enough examination of how the existing resources are properly spent or allocated. I agree with the Deputy's broader point.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I agree with the Deputy and that is why the last Government in the last number of months proposed structures to reform the Road Safety Authority, in terms of dividing work particularly in terms of the operational issues like driver testing, so there will be a more focused approach on that which is separate to the broader work the RSA is engaged in with respect to road safety. A new CEO for...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The immediate issue is primarily the allocation of resources and also working through what we mean by public health model and how we integrate it with the school-based model for children from the age of four and a half or four years upwards. That is the big question. We then have to ask about the funding implications of that and identify how much would it cost and how we would plan, in...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I understand what Deputy Doherty is at here. Deputy Michael Lowry is an independent TD. He is not one of ours.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will say one thing. Sinn Féin needs to reflect. A funeral happened this week. While I have great time for the victims and for wife and those who have lost a loved one, the truth is that Deputy Doherty's party called somebody who murdered five innocent people in a bar and injured 16 more and who was involved in the murder of a trainee garda and a member of the Defence Forces in...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: What Michael Lowry did-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----pales into insignificance in terms of what the members of your movement did. Please-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I would ask Deputies Doherty and McDonald-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----to ask members-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----of your movement what they did. Do not be so judgmental. I will not be getting involved in what the Moriarty tribunal.