Results 11,541-11,560 of 50,136 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but there has to be a liaison with local authorities, sites have to be identified and routes have to be organised.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I do not understand why it has not happened in Galway. We will follow that up-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----with the local authority and the NTA. There should be a park-and-ride facility in a city like Galway. Other cities have park-and-ride facilities. They are not the full answer, but they are important. Above all, other cities have moved faster in terms of pedestrianisation and changing the nature of cities. We need to do that far faster.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: It will be very shortly. The Minister will bring it before Cabinet and we will then bring it to the Dáil. He is adhering to the timeline he has set.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: There is a whole range of targets in the climate action plan across the board-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----including for electric vehicles, retrofitting, riparian schemes in agriculture, which we have developed and will shortly be announced by the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Hackett, in respect of the growing of trees adjacent to waterways and rivers and so on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: A lot of progress has been made.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: A lot of hard work has gone into this in terms of the engagement, Department by Department, with the Department of the Environment in respect of the ceilings each sector will have to achieve.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I said it would be shortly. When we bring it before the Government, we will bring it before-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have not been saying it for a long time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Minister has been very clear in outlining the various steps that have to be taken from the publication of the plan onwards.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I do not know what the Deputy means by my "actions to date". I will park that for a moment. In the first instance, she raised an issue in respect of an individual she identified, Mr. Shane Corr. It is not appropriate for me to discuss human resource issues regarding individuals. There are many aspects to that entire situation that merit an objective assessment. I will say no more than...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I do not have the powers to appoint an independent investigator to a local authority. There are established structures, first of all, within local authorities to deal with this. The Deputy should engage with the council and councillors herself, meet all the parties on the council, if that is her view, and hear what they are saying.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy admitted it was cross-party.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy admitted it was cross-party. I have made it very clear I do not support what transpired.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: It does matter.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: It does matter. If it does not, why is the Deputy raising it?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have responded to the Deputy on the principle of this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: When I went to Wexford, in the presence of the radio station, I made it very clear-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: We will develop a collective response to deal with it.