Results 11,881-11,900 of 50,136 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: We cannot have a debate on everything we might want to debate in the one week. That said, on the point the Deputy has raised, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has engaged with the transport operators.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: My understanding is that he has and that he will continue to do so. He has connections in Tipperary. He has connections in Cork. He has connections in a lot of places, apparently.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: He is far more in touch with rural Ireland-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----than the Deputy gives him credit for, given the broad tentacles his family reach out there. Deputy Boyd Barrett raised the same issue with An Bord Pleanála, and the same reply applies.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: No.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: My reply to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan applies to Deputy Boyd Barrett's question as well.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I want to pay tribute to the Carbery Group on winning the overall award for Cork company of the year. Maybe the Deputy should take its example because one of the issues the company champions is net zero-emissions farming. It is way ahead of the game in respect of that. That is west Cork leading and a great west Cork company leading. Perhaps the Deputy should discuss that with the company...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: If we get into all sorts of high doh about very minor issues relative to the enormity of what is coming our way in respect of climate change, it is quite frightening.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I do not mean that in a way of apportioning blame or anything like that. I am saying that, collectively, we need to get a grip here and we need to move.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. As regards the broader picture around energy supply and security of supply, the very strong focus is on renewables and the entire agenda over the next decade or so will be to develop very significantly offshore wind across the east, west and south-west coasts. I believe the next decade will witness transformative investment in wind energy in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The purpose here is to build a maternity hospital, not any other hospital. The purpose of this exercise was never to buy out St. Vincent's. That was not the objective when Holles Street and St. Vincent's originally decided to co-locate. Let us not mix up the agenda. The agenda was to build a modern national maternity hospital with co-location of expertise in terms of maternal and neonatal...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy should stop accusing members of the Government, who are entitled in a democracy to their points of view on other issues. They are entitled to their views, but the Deputy seeks to blacken people-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy just did in her contribution, so she cannot have it both ways. I respect people's views irrespective of what they are. We are in a democracy and I always respect people’s views, particularly in a Parliament. If the Deputy does not trust me, that is fine, but maybe she will trust the clinicians, senior midwives and directors of the hospital, including Mary Brosnan, Martina...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The previous agreement, by the way, had a much lesser lease period. There was very little shouting and roaring about it, actually, after the Mulvey agreement.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: There was very little shouting and roaring. The Deputy was in opposition too.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy will jump up and down when it suits and when the pendulum swings from opinion poll to opinion poll. That is the modus operandi of Deputy Carthy. Deputy Bacik asked a question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I want to make the point that reference was made to the €850,000 and so on. That only applies if the building is sold or turned into something other than a maternity hospital. The whole purpose of seeking the lease was to build a maternity hospital. The whole idea behind going to St. Vincent's in the first place was co-location, which derived from medical expertise which said the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I was not in government in 2017.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have been in the Government for the last two years and I am determined to get things done-----