Results 101-120 of 51,299 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: You do not care about anything to do with the western hemisphere-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and that is your position. This is a fundamental point that has been raised time and time again. Those opposite say they are against this and against that. They do not believe in an enterprise economy, they do not believe in free trade and they do not really believe in workers' opportunity to develop and grow within their employments under the model we have here. That is a very...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Other issues were raised. To Deputy Ó Cearúil, we will embrace the strategic partnership. We have our position of military neutrality. I do not know whether it was Deputy Murphy or Deputy Coppinger who suggested our relationship with Canada was about militarisation, armaments and so on-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----but it most certainly is not. Other EU member states are entitled to have their positions on defence.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are not part of NATO.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: If you talk-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----to people from Lithuania and Latvia, they have very legitimate existential concerns given their countries' long histories with Russia and the manner in which Russia treated them. Time and time again, it invaded those countries and violated their integrity. If the Deputy was living in Lithuania, he might have a different perspective to the one he has now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 18 to 34, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on housing last met on Thursday 5 June and is due to meet again on Monday 21 July. The committee works to ensure a cross-Government approach to the implementation of our commitments in respect of housing policy. Housing supply has increased significantly over the past number of years, with almost...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am amazed and somewhat shocked at the orientation and nature of the Opposition's presentations, particularly in terms of CETA. Someone said these are legitimate questions about the investor courts. The investor courts were dealt with through the European court judgment and will be dealt with in terms of the legislation. All trade agreements have to have a mediating facility and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Could we-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----eat into the next question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Maybe we could take off-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is what I am saying.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: On letting them play, I am perplexed about this. Deputy Paul Murphy raised this as well. I am slightly worried that there is a campaign under way to try to blame the Government or create this narrative, as Deputy Murphy did, that the Government is anti-Palestinian or is not facilitating Palestinians coming to Ireland. The bottom line is 700 visas have been granted to Palestinian nationals...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: There is no delay in medical evacuations whatsoever. A false narrative has developed around medical evacuation of children from Palestine. I do not know where that is coming from or why people would even want to create that false narrative to undermine the Government..
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The doctor should maybe contact the Minister. We work with the World Health Organization. Some doctors wanted to do it by another route through Jordan. We can look at that but let us do it properly, through the proper channels, because these are serious matters. These are children with serious injuries. We have to make sure their parents are on board. Family unification is there and we...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am dealing with it now but it is an important point. This is a serious matter. You cannot have a group forming in any locality and simply say, "Ignore all your normal regulatory procedures for visa applications". That is not possible. You have to get the documentation right. We have to know who is coming in with the children. We have to know the passports are proper. A lot of that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Just hear me out, please. For the children, additional documents must be verified, including birth certificates and letters of consent to establish the relationship between the child and the adult they are travelling with. Most of the children would not have been travelling with a parent. Then there are all sorts of issues about employment, other ties and indicating that a person has...