Results 16,441-16,460 of 50,297 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I think I dealt with the issue of Moore Street raised by Deputy Tóibín. I will revert to him with a response from the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, in respect of the home of The O'Rahilly and accountability for what was a terrible deed, namely, the demolition of that very important building
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I spoke to the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on the evening of Tuesday, 27 April, and we updated each other on the Covid-19 situation and progress on the vaccine roll-out. We discussed Northern Ireland and the importance of the British-Irish relationship and had an exchange of views on the EU-UK discussions on the implementation of the Ireland-Northern Ireland protocol. We...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: On the key question on Moore Street, raised by Deputies McDonald and Tóibín, there has been a lot of discussion between political parties in this House and various groupings over the past five or six years. My understanding was that a consensus had been arrived at between the various parties and members of parties. Prior to that, the State had intervened and purchased the key...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is not. I am only ten months in office now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I am ten months in office. I do not keep on-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I do not serially object for political purposes and to create political platforms. That seems to be-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----underpinning your latest development on this front. That is all I have to say.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: The State owns the key buildings on Moore Street because it intervened. The Government intervened at the time. It is important to bring the area back to life and to ensure the development will share the history and create an historic trail that future generations can see in a far better way than in the past 50 years. I have been there-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: And on your watch, too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I know exactly what you are about and I know what your movement is about. I am not sure it exists for benign reasons. I have to put that on the record because there is one series after another. There was good, constructive engagement on this, yet, as ever, the Deputy's party seeks to gain partisan political advantage over everybody else on the issue and to name-call everybody else who does...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: On the midlands, I understand the Deputy's point on the just transition being designed to provide alternative employment for people in localities that have suffered as a result of the country endeavouring to reach its climate change targets and the closure of certain generating facilities and other activity as a consequence. There is a need to reinvest, particularly in the midlands. I do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----which will give a more coherent planning legislative process and mechanisms that will both protect biodiversity and the environment but also enable-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----opportunities such as the development based on offshore wind, for example, which is an important part of our renewable strategies. On the wider issue, Coilte and Bord na Móna are two important State agencies along with the ESB in meeting our climate change agenda.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: They will stay as State enterprises. They are not being privatised. Their privatisation is not on the agenda at all. That equally applies to Deputy Barry.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: To Deputy Tóibín, looking at the planning framework in Ireland, there is no evidence that citizens lack any capacity to take on big projects. Individuals object to a whole range of projects. There is a balance here. I will engage with the Deputy further on the points he has raised.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 to 10, inclusive, together. The Government co-ordination committee generally meets in advance of Government meetings to: 1. review the activity of Cabinet committees; 2. review the agenda for that week's Government meeting; 3. discuss political priorities; and 4. review implementation of a specified element of the programme for Government. I am a member...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Question Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change last met on 1 April 2021 and is scheduled to meet again on 10 May 2021. It is chaired by the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan. The committee oversees the implementation of the ambitious programme for Government commitments on...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: As I said earlier, I agree with the Deputy. I will continue to engage with the HSE on this. These are clinical decisions that have been taken from the outset of the pandemic but, given the success to date within the hospital environment in suppressing the virus and the success of the vaccination programme, greater facility should now exist for expectant mothers to be accompanied by their...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: Government has been supportive of the hospice movement, particularly in recent months, and has provided substantial funding to underpin the hospices, given the huge challenges they have faced in terms of various fundraising projects being undermined by Covid-19. I am not aware of the specifics of this case but we will engage with the HSE. I have no doubt we will do everything we can to...