Results 13,641-13,660 of 50,151 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this profoundly serious issue. I have read the executive summary of the report - the preliminary section of it. It is shocking and very serious. What happened is unacceptable. It represents a damning indictment of the service. The first principle of medicine is to do no harm. Children were harmed here by a complete failure of clinical performance and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising what I have repeatedly raised in this House, and since I became Taoiseach one year and a half ago, that housing is the single most important social issue facing our country at this time. It is an enormous challenge that goes to the heart of cohesion within society and above all of giving younger generations, in particular, the opportunity to own their homes, to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----that the most recent attempts, which started in 2008 and attempts were made in 2015 to get that project off the ground, was defeated by politics-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----on a consistent basis.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: What the Irish people cannot afford and what the renters cannot afford is Sinn Féin and others - I apply this to everybody - consistently opposing housing projects that will increase supply.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin has opposed the O'Devaney Gardens project. It has opposed developments on Oscar Traynor Road.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is estimated that Sinn Féin has opposed the construction of 6,000 homes. It does not stack up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin's performance on the ground in councils the length and breadth of the country cannot be reconciled with what Deputies are saying in this House. If we agree it is a crisis, and I do-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is a crisis, but the most effective way of dealing with it is to get housing supply in place and to give people strength and capacity in terms of incomes and jobs. At least there is good news this morning in that over the coming years the Central Bank is projecting another 167,000 additional jobs. We are responding well to the Covid recession to an extraordinary degree in terms of the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Cabinet Committee on Education oversees implementation of the Programme for Government commitments in the area of Education, including the management of COVID in schools. This Cabinet Committee last met on 13 May 2021 and will meet again shortly. I have regular engagement with Ministers at Cabinet and individually to discuss priority issues relating to their Departments. In addition, a...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Cabinet Committee on Health last met on Thursday, 9 December 2021.
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: In fairness to Deputy-----
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I just note the difference in language between Deputy Ó Murchú and Deputies Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy, who, to be fair, have called out Russian activity. I do not hear the same sentiments from Sinn Féin's benches at all for whatever reason.
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: Yes, that is good. Good man. I got that out of the Deputy. Deputy Haughey spoke about the Franco-German axis and the more pragmatic approach being adopted by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Ireland accepts Ukrainian territorial integrity. As I said earlier, our principles in our approach to the Russian-Ukrainian situation involve, first of all, acceptance of and adherence to that fundamental,...
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: The President of the European Parliament does not have an executive function in this regard.
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: We know the rules-----
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and I think it would be a very dangerous move in some respects. I think there are other ways to reduce the impact of this on people. That is the key point. I think I have dealt with Deputy Boyd Barrett's points.
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: We are a country with a policy of military neutrality, and that is scrupulously observed by us as a country. It is not inconsistent, by the way, with military neutrality that military aircraft of-----
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I do not think NATO is being aggressive here. As for the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, there is a reality.
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: Countries eastwards have opted to join the European Union; many more want to do so.