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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...to 90% of homes and businesses by 2015. It is now 2018. At the general election of 2016, again, it was said 100% would have it by 2020, and we know what has happened. People out there are very impatient and frustrated at the lack of real progress in terms of getting this issue and the national broadband plan implemented. We then fast-forward to last week and the resignation of the...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...seventy days before Brexit takes place, the overwhelming majority of our businesses have not been helped to be Brexit-ready, and their fears of what lies ahead continue to grow apace. This is a €5 billion threat, yet all we get is the same pattern of over-claim and under-delivery. The scale, ambition and implementation of Brexit measures are nowhere near what are required. We...

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...with the people outside of this House who are genuinely wrestling with this issue in mind. Many in this House have also wrestled with it. I invite people to watch the powerful testimony of Pat and Mary Lyons on joe.ieabout their daughter's journey to Liverpool in the context of a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality and about the very difficult and unacceptable nature of that journey....

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State might check with Deputy Pat The Cope Gallagher who is an acknowledged expert.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: The statutory instrument has been laid before the House. I ask the Minister of State to consult Deputy Pat The Cope Gallagher.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...Government has undertaken a U-turn on this issue. The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection has announced that the allowance will be doubled. It is worrying that the issue was not anticipated earlier in the week. We know that on occasions like this, cold weather and deep freezes can affect the elderly most of all. I ask the Government to consider advancing additional...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: People will have been concerned to learn that the assistant commissioner of the Dublin metropolitan region, Pat Leahy, has advised that no overtime is to be incurred other than in respect of Operation C-Port and Operation Hybrid. In his instruction, he declared in very stark language:No other overtime is authorised and any operations intended on an overtime basis are hereby cancelled ... The...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Micheál Martin: ...to project manage, execute and deliver a plan of this nature. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, confirmed this as far back as 2015 when he said the Government has lost patience with the pace of the roll-out. The procurement process has been ongoing for a considerable length of time. There have been many commitments. In 2012, the then Minister, former Deputy...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: ...with reassurances that they will be considered for a position as Minister of State. Given the number of promises that appear to have been handed out during the leadership race it will be interesting to hear what will be told to the five Fine Gael Deputies not on the list and left without a portfolio. The use of the superior junior Minister, conceived many years ago to facilitate former...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: This question is very apt given Pat Leahy had a very interesting article in today's The Irish Timeswhere anonymous but very real sources say that the poor legislative record of the Government to date has now become very poor and that it is paralysed. There are two reasons: one is the current issues within Fine Gael; and the second is that the Government is very worried that if it produces...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: ...the issue is how we mitigate the economic damage which will be caused by the UK's exit from the Single Market and customs union. This is the central question that faces Ireland. There has been a pat answer focusing on the common travel. The core issue is trade and how we will limit the damage which Brexit will cause. Will the Taoiseach tell us when he intends to outline proposals on how...

The Arts: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: .... The fact is that our artists have always looked outward - it is the Government that has turned inward. I recall the very first Global Irish Economic Forum at Farmleigh, at which several major ex-pat chief executive officers from all over the world who had made it to the highest levels of the corporate world came back and told everyone at the gathering - policy makers and decision...

Election of Leas-Cheann Comhairle (2 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I move:That Deputy Pat The Cope Gallagher be elected Leas Cheann-Comhaire. Is pribhléid an-mhór domsa an Teachta Pat the Cope Gallagher a ainmniú mar Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Fear cumasach éirimiúil é atá clú agus cáil air ní hamháin ar fud na tíre ach ar fud na hEorpa chomh maith. Is fear é a oibríonn go dian...

Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: ...of their loved ones. The British Government remains in clear breach of its commitments in the Weston Park Agreement to allow the open and independent investigation of crimes, such as the murder of Pat Finucane which traces to collusion by British forces, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings and many others. Equally, the provisional movement has continued to deny basic justice and closure to many...

European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: ...by Germany and which has been referred to the Court of Justice. The Taoiseach's refusal even to argue for a set of real reforms to EMU is representative of a policy which has emphasised photo opportunities and pats on the head over genuine substance. The summit is also due to hear further details about British proposals for the renegotiation of parts of its membership of the Union. The...

Order of Business (26 May 2015)

Micheál Martin: ...It is an extraordinary and breathtaking breach of a promise the Taoiseach made to the people. It transcends even Deputy Ruairí Quinn's promise about third level fees. The former Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, said that is what tends to happen during election campaigns but I find this extraordinary. This is one of the Government's pillar policies. A white paper on UHI was published...

Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)

Micheál Martin: ...no wiser at the end of the Taoiseach's reply. My opening question raised a very serious issue, revealed in the e-mail of December 2012 from the national incident management team to the director of patient safety. It states that, "The NIMT is aware of numerous sad and serious cases occurring at all HSE sites". Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister for Health to come before the Dáil...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: ...and their contribution to getting the deficit below 3%. The four-year plan that the former Minister for Finance, the late Brian Lenihan, produced was done without any EMC. The full Cabinet participated in it without any emergency fiscal council. The funding arrangement with the troika, which provided the funding for three years of the plan, was done and dusted before any EMC had been...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, recently regarding the Pat Finucane inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6615/15]

Appointment of Minister of State (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: Pat Spillane said that.