Results 241-260 of 1,097,243 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Johnny Mythen OR speaker:Matt Shanahan OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Pat Buckley OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Aindrias Moynihan OR speaker:Christopher O'Sullivan OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:John McGuinness OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Fergus O'Dowd OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:Colm Brophy OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív OR speaker:Maurice Quinlivan) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: You were. The facts are-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Will the Deputy allow the Tánaiste to respond?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I want to make the point that-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: You allowed it to go through-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: -----on a wink and a nod.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: It was 2014.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Check the record. Yes.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: There was no confidence and supply in 2014.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: No.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Cormac Devlin: That was in 2016.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: None. The Deputy is right. The then Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin, acknowledged it. The Labour Party brought it in and Fine Gael agreed to it at the time.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Will you-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Howlin acknowledged subsequently that he felt it was the wrong move. At the start of the last Government, Deputy McGrath refused to back this Government-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: You did not want us in government.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----even though I want to restore urban councils. We have a policy in Fianna Fáil to restore urban councils.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: When?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I believe they are essential to progression of towns the length and breadth of the country. I thought they were a very good exercise in local democracy. I believe urban councils are a very good exercise in terms of local people coming together to do what is right for their locality.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Cormac Devlin: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Government restore the borough councils?