Results 41-60 of 45,942 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputies-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: No, I am not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The old trope of conscription-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and of joining a European army has been in every referendum.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy just asked if I was going to send Irish troops out to fight in colonial wars-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt. I am entitled, through the Chair, to argue and make points to the House and to answer the questions the Deputy has raised. My point is a valid point and I will not be browbeaten by the Deputy just as she tried to browbeat me last year when I had a consultative forum, which is a basic act of participative democracy. She tried everything to denigrate the chair and tried...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and we can only discuss them on her terms. That is the only basis on which she thinks we can discuss issues of neutrality and the triple lock. I believe in military neutrality and we are militarily neutral. The triple lock has nothing to do with military neutrality-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----but it has everything to do with the incapacity and the paralysis on the Security Council around peacekeeping missions. We have a proud peacekeeping record in this country. We are in UNIFIL in Lebanon. There are examples where we were not in a position to help. In 1999, a permanent member of UN Security Council vetoed the renewal of the United Nations preventive deployment force and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Smith knows that I said that time and again yet it is disappointing that she deliberately distorts the truth with her assertions. Anything we do, including the legislative proposals we will bring forward, will be absolutely within the framework of the UN Charter. That has always been our esprit de corps as a country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is a monstrous lie and assertion to suggest that removing the triple lock will facilitate, will be a factor in, or result in young Irish people fighting in wars. The European Union is not a colonial power. This exactly proves my point. The Deputy is denying past campaigns and she has just reiterated the entire campaign-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is not a colonial power. It has no colonies. It is not Russia. The real imperialism of today is Russia.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy just does pro forma. She will articulate a formulation in this Chamber.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have never seen the Deputy march on behalf of the people of Ukraine and she never will----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----because she has presented the Ukraine war and Russia's invasion as somehow a western European neocolonial project.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: She has always attempted to do that
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is a false dichotomy between the colonialism of the past and the sovereignty we have achieved as members of the Europe Union, which has always respected-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I will answer the question. As I have said, it will be completely within the UN Charter. We only want to be involved in peacekeeping missions. We will have to be involved in evacuating Irish citizens and we need to change the frame-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Do not give the Deputy that. Do not give the Deputy that about Afghanistan. What about the people in Afghanistan who were rescued when the Army rangers were participants? What about Sudan?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputies are so dismissive of the reality of what is happening in many parts of this world. We had to get Irish citizens out of Sudan and Afghanistan and that is going to increase. Unfortunately, there will be more war situations so we will have evacuation-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That means in terms of hospital organisation-----