Results 181-200 of 1,047,325 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Catherine Byrne OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Neale Richmond OR speaker:Seán Crowe OR speaker:Martin Kenny OR speaker:Thomas Gould) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Bríd Smith: So am I. I am the daughter of a busman.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I came from a working-class community.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Bríd Smith: So what?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputy. I will tell her "So what?"
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Bríd Smith: I am the daughter of a busman.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Order, please. Let the Tánaiste speak.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am the son of a busman who was a founding member of the NBRU.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: Same.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Bríd Smith: So was my da.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I was the first to get to second level education in our family and we were the first generation to get to third level.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Bríd Smith: I was the first to do the leaving certificate in my family.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do not need lectures from the far left, and many from the far left who were educated in far more luxurious schools than I was ever educated in.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Bríd Smith: But do not address the inequality. The Tánaiste can talk all he likes about his childhood but he has not addressed the inequality.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Order, please. Will you let the Tánaiste respond?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I had the good grace to let the Deputy speak but she does not have the good grace to allow me to speak. I am a product of the Fianna Fáil-Donogh O’Malley revolution of free education.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Bríd Smith: God help us.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I participated in it. It was not “God help us” because it brought on a lot of us. It gave me a passion for education. That is why I became Minister for Education, and to make sure every child in this country had an opportunity to participate in education. I do not trade figures across the House. When I mentioned school completion, I mentioned it because I took part in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Bríd Smith: There are 110,000 children with special needs that are not being met.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, will you stop interrupting, please?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is because it matters to me. It is why I am in politics. The Deputy does not have a monopoly on care or compassion on her side of the House. Where she fails is in her understanding. She declared she is a socialist and she is entitled to be, but she has never embraced the Irish economic model that has created enterprise and the opportunity for people to grow and develop in this country....