Results 12,261-12,280 of 50,136 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in respect of climate change. There are win-wins here. The Central Bank of Ireland said there will be 88,000 extra jobs. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae talks about closing the country; a doomsday scenario. For God's sake, during the pandemic, we took measures-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----that rescued this economy and put it on the pathway to a dramatic recovery.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We want to do the same now in the context of this war-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in order to respond intelligently and sensibly to enable us to protect jobs and the economy, but, above all, to protect the quality of life of younger generations yet to come.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, has been very active in engaging with the fishing industry in respect of all these issues and in ensuring a pathway to a more structured relationship with the European Commission into the future than we have had in the past, which has caused many of these difficulties. The Minister is very aware of these issues and is engaging with all concerned to bring...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We are doing everything we possibly can to make sure that the sanctions have effect and that assets that are meant to be are frozen. That is happening in terms of the sanctions we have already introduced. President Zelenskyy was very clear in stating that more needing to be done, certainly in the context of sanctions. The big debate has been on oil, gas and coal. We in Ireland have been...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: In the first instance, I will say that the most immediate focus with regard to this matter at the DAA has been on reducing the inconvenience caused by long queueing for the public at large. The DAA has recruited more than 100 staff and is actively recruiting more. It is responsible for staffing and recruitment and for the terms and conditions of employment of staff. The Minister of State,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate where the Deputy is coming from, but I make the point that, as I said, the hotels, the guest houses and all those facilities are essential. You cannot put hundreds or thousands of people into accommodation without resourcing that. We are very appreciative of the voluntary pledges that came in. More work is needed in the first instance to go through those pledges as quickly as...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We saw that in Belarus last year when it put pressure on Lithuania, Poland and other countries-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. We need balance and perspective in the debate. I fully accept that the cost-of-living increases are having a significant impact on people. These are caused by a war and caused by a pandemic. Without question, the pandemic and the war have caused extraordinary increase in energy prices globally. This is happening now all over the world, not...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in wind energy, for example, and in other issues such as conservation and the preservation of bogs etc. I put it to the Deputy that we have to play our part as a country. The young people of this country want us to play a part.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The implication of what the Deputy has said is that this country should ignore climate change, should let other countries deal with it, that we that should paddle our own canoe and to hell with the consequences and that we should play no part like. Ireland from the foundation of the State believes in the international community. We believe in a rules-based order. We believe in playing our part.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Climate change is existential. I know that the Deputy does not agree with it. He denies that it is happening at all. I think that is his position which he has put forward in the House. I disagree with him. It is existential and we have a duty to the younger generations, to our children and to our children’s children not to stand still now, not to deflect and not to postpone. We...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is nothing to do with Deputy Eamon Ryan. It is nothing to do with the Greens.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It should be the concern of every Deputy in this House and of every Senator.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It should be the concern of everybody.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We must act to protect this planet for our children and our children's children.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: That is what should matter in this House.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Hopefully, by the end of April, there will be a further return to this, with a fuller reform of the market by the end of May.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: There is no point in tackling this with one measure alone. Pay policy is important. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has invited social partners to discuss extending the existing national pay agreement. It should be possible for us, as a society, to work through the different strands of income policy, pay, tax and welfare. The question is whether we can get agreement on...