Results 281-300 of 1,166,804 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Dara Calleary OR speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Joe Flaherty OR speaker:Carol Nolan OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Michael Collins OR speaker:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:Thomas Gould OR speaker:Louise O'Reilly OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:James O'Connor OR speaker:Norma Foley OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Simon Harris OR speaker:Johnny Mythen OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:John Brady OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Seán Fleming OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae OR speaker:Noel Grealish OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Róisín Shortall OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly OR speaker:David Stanton OR speaker:Eamon Ryan OR speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl OR speaker:Thomas Pringle) in 'Committee meetings'
- 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?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I ask Deputy McGrath to withdraw his assertion that I somehow was involved.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: No, I will not. When will he return them?