Results 181-200 of 299 for 5 million speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: ...of information provisions to Deputy Catherine Murphy and The Sunday Times. The concerns revealed are very grave indeed. I refer to the speaking notes for the Minister's meeting with IBRC on 25 July 2012. In the documents, the civil servants state:We are concerned that IBRC consider the CBI report compiled on the transaction vindicates their position. To be clear we are concerned with a...
- Topical Issue Debate: Airport Promotion (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: ...numbers have fallen by approximately 40%, which is rather dramatic. Last year alone saw a reduction of 6.6% in passengers to the airport. Next year, the airport authority is projecting a 5% decline. Action is required because 2015 will be worse. Aer Lingus and Ryanair have announced the cancellation of routes on top of a reduction of further flights to continental Europe, including the...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: ...mortgage arrears whose cases I have been raising with the Taoiseach for the last month. They do not get paid off when they owe a bank a lot of money. We are talking about a company that owed €150 million. The advisers on the sale of the company recommended that they got the top end - €5 million. Five of the shareholders were clients of this company. This was all going on...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about shareholders getting €5 million from a company that owes so much to the taxpayer?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: ...she was told by the Minister, Deputy Noonan, that he was satisfied that the best interests of the taxpayer were met in the sale of this company. We know that IBRC sold Siteserv at a loss of €105 million. We know that the legal advisers acted for both the purchaser and the seller. We now know that the financial adviser Davy, which was advising the company but whose fundamental...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is no answer to the fundamental point I am making about €500 million. We are also paying for the construction of a billing infrastructure which is not needed. We have a regulator that will not be regulating. What was the role of the regulator in all of this over the last month? The regulator was not even mentioned in the newest iteration. The charge on which the Government...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and it does not justify the yield by any business model or any definition? All of that does not justify the yield of about €150 million. While I am not even suggesting this, putting 5 cent on a gallon of petrol would have raised the equivalent amount of revenue.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: ...and upgrading water infrastructure. In other words, the delivery system remains within the local authorities despite the incredible edifice that has been established at a start-up cost of €650 million. I asked the Tánaiste a very simple question. We have had four ways of assessing water charges. This is the 16th day on which water charges have been imposed and many are still...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: ...could shop around to achieve better value. The overwhelming bulk of cuts, all of which the Labour Party had promised to oppose when it was campaigning, remain fully in place. Child benefit remains €5 below the level which both the Labour Party and Fine Gael stated they would maintain. Because of the failure to give a proper credible free allowance for water charges, the increase...
- Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: ...; one just does not see this in any of the examples. The Government falsely claims that with the sole exception of a family with two children, comprising a stay at home father and self-employed mother earning over €150,000, whose health insurance relief is to be reduced, every other family type presented is due to sail happily through next year with their income unchanged. That is...
- Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)
Micheál Martin: ...to enable] people to stay in their own homes.Will the Minister outline when those commitments will be followed-up and fulfilled? Instead of additional funding for home helps, there have been 1 million home help hours cut. There has been less funding for residential places and fewer home care packages. The fair deal is being reviewed, but only with a view to increasing the charge on...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: ...extraordinary that the impulse of European Union leaders is driven towards reducing the European budget at a time when unemployment is at its highest, youth unemployment is at its highest and up to 115 million people across the Union are at risk of poverty. In that context, the driving impulse of the European leaders beggars belief. Our leaders have conspired with that. In my view, they...
- European Council: Statements (13 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: ...not seen since the late 1920s. No matter how one dresses it up, at a time when the challenges faced by the Union are rising, its resources to tackle them will decrease. There are 26 million people out of work in the Union today. Many live in regions that have little or no access to funding or opportunities to help create new jobs. This is the very moment at which the ideals of the...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is a concern that the country's best performing and most strategically important hospitals are being hit with massive budget cuts. St. James's Hospital is to face the biggest cut of €9 million and it is hard to understand how it will cope with the pressures given the case mix of that hospital. The allocation appears to be more about getting rid of the deficits of existing...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: ...for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, announced he would effect a transformation of the system of allowances in the public sector. He stated he wanted to achieve savings of €75 million this year and €150 million next year. There is no question this was one of the big ideas of the new Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. If one analyses any of the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The deficit of Galway University Hospital is â¬7 million, Drogheda is at â¬6 million, Beaumont is at â¬8 million, Tallaght is at â¬7.5 million, the Mater is at â¬5 million, Cork University Hospital is at â¬5 million and St. Vincent's hospital is at â¬6 million. I am not the only one saying this.
- Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)
Micheál Martin: ...1999 represented a very significant expansion and upscaling of the nature of the relationship between this country and China. I recall that back in 1999, two-way trade was worth approximately â¬500 million. By 2007-208, I understand it was worth â¬5 billion. That is true of many other countries and it reflects what is one of the great stories - whatever way one wants to put it - of...
- Written Answers — EU2020 Strategy: EU2020 Strategy (12 Oct 2010)
Micheál Martin: ...targets. Its purpose is to measure progress in reducing poverty and in ensuring that the benefits of growth and jobs are shared. The June European Council agreed a numerical target to lift 20 million people out of the risk of poverty and exclusion by 2020. The population 'at risk of poverty and exclusion' is defined by three indicators: at-risk-of-poverty; material deprivation; and low...
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Jul 2010)
Micheál Martin: ...an objective of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in 2000. Specifically, the fifth of the eight MDGs is to reduce the maternal mortality rate by 75% by 2015. The 2010 Report on progress towards the MDGs which was launched recently by the UN Secretary General, notes that some progress has been achieved in reducing maternal mortality, with...
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Jul 2010)
Micheál Martin: ...organisations, participating in meetings and shaping and influencing policy decisions, and we are generous financial contributors to their work. In 2010 Ireland has provided approximately â¬9 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, approximately â¬3 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), â¬1 million to the International Partnership for Microbicides,...