Results 12,701-12,720 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: This is a matter of enormous difficulty and challenges for the people concerned and my empathy is with the workers who have been identified as being laid off, which is very tough on the workers concerned. Every effort has to be made and this is a huge shock to the staff. I am not familiar with the details the Deputy has announced about the selection methodology but if the Deputy wants to...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I invite the Deputy to send me a detailed background note to me on it because sometimes things are said here and when I go back and check it is not always the case. I would welcome it if the Deputy could do that. What is important is that we do everything we possibly can for the workers who will be laid off. The State must immediately work with the workers to find alternative employment if...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am glad that the Deputy acknowledged the work of Deputy Ó Cuív when he was Minister and when he brought in that scheme. He brought in a number of imaginative and creative schemes for rural Ireland. I was responsible for bringing in the six-year rule in its first form when I was Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to deal with people of a certain age who were coming off...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: Again, the Deputy is interrupting. I made it very clear that it was absolutely unacceptable for any local authority to try to interfere or editorially control any radio station or any newspaper by dint of the fact that it invests in advertising. That is wrong. SIPO has called that out, and----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----I have made that very clear, but I do not know why the Deputy is trying to twist it and personalise it-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in the manner she has done today, which is not good either.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: Go bunúsach, aontaím leis an Teachta go bhfuil géarghá ann i bhfad níos mó a dhéanamh chomh tapa agus is féidir linn, agus é a dhéanamh níos tapúla, chun déileáil leis an ngéarchéim aeráide atá againn. Tá an dúshlán atá amach romhainn práinneach agus caithfimid i bhfad níos...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: Every city and town in the country has to be a model of sustainability, especially Galway. I know there has been a fairly divisive row in Galway in respect of the ring road that has gone on for a long, long time. By the way, light rail and a proper road system are not mutually exclusive either. I do not know why park and ride has not happened in Galway. That is fundamentally a matter for...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: Other cities have had them for a long, long time.
- 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.