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Micheál Martin

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Cork South-Central · active 2020-02-20 to 2026-09-30
19,180Contributions
516Votes cast
98.6%On prevailing side
369Tá
147Níl

On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 509 of 516 decisive votes (0 abstentions excluded). Read it as a government-or-opposition indicator rather than a measure of influence — the figure is near 100% for members supporting the government of the day and near 0% for those opposing it.

Party over time

This is the point of the site: contributions keep the party held on the day, not the one held now.

PartyRecorded asContributionsPeriod
FF Fianna Fáil 19,180 2020-02-20 – 2026-09-30

Membership spells on record: FF 1989-06-15–1992-11-05 · FF 1992-11-25–1997-05-15 · FF 1997-06-06–2002-04-25 · FF 2002-05-17–2007-04-30 · FF 2007-05-24–2011-02-01 · FF 2011-02-25–2016-03-09 · FF 2016-03-10–2020-01-14 · FF 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · FF 2024-11-29–present

Record

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

I resent that completely.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

I accept that but comments were made to which I feel I have to respond. I have no issue with the Minister for Education and Skills speaking to the Dáil. A marking scheme has been devised and there is an idea of grades instead of exams. No individual Deputy is going to organise how the grading system is going to work. I have been in education and I understand how complex marking schemes are, even for the leaving certificate proper as we knew it. A non-leaving certificate examination is going to be complex, difficult…

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

It means I am open to debate.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

It is up to the Business Committee.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

I kept going until 6 o'clock this morning. I invite Members to follow suit.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

I do not organise the schedule or business of the House. That is a matter for the Business Committee. I am conscious, though, that there is a huge volume of legislation going through this month and I appreciate that all parties are co-operating with the passage of what is, from my memory, probably the highest volume of legislation in any one month. Obviously, it is related to Covid and trying to protect jobs for people, but if something can be facilitated, it will be. I do not know how long it will be delayed. Is i…

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Is that the difference?

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Is that earth shattering? Is that huge?

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

What I mean-----

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

I do.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

That does not appear to be acceptable to Deputy Cullinane. Could I just make the point that we are first and foremost legislators? The legislation is in the Seanad and I take it that it is important that we get the legislation right and that enough time is given to the scrutiny of the legislation itself, particularly in what is a high-pressure situation in terms of legislation going through the House at the moment. I am just not clear whether deferring it to Monday is something that could not be accommodated, but I…

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

In relation to the €15 billion to €7.5 billion, which was in the recovery and resilience fund element, there were two tranches on that during the talks, which were extremely difficult talks. The first would have resulted in a reduction of €124 million for Ireland over seven years. The second cut of €2.5 billion, which makes up the rest of the €7.5 billion, would have brought it up to somewhere closer to €200 million over seven years. I went back to the President of the Council and made it clear that was not accepta…

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

I do not propose to get into detailed calculations now.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Of course, they always do that but I am not going to jump in now with specifics.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

So do we. There were three key elements for us, the Common Agricultural Policy, which we have protected; a special Brexit reserve fund of €5 billion to be used-----

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

That fund is important to farming.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Farming will be one of the areas affected.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

I apologise.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

There are two issues. The Government will decide on that this evening. I have said from the outset that we have postponed this. The publication of a green list was articulated some time ago. In terms of the challenges of living with Covid-19 and getting the balance right, the Government will decide on the matter.

FF 2020-07-21 · Dail
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

The Government will decide. In terms of testing, on other occasions Deputy Kelly will advocate adherence to the advice of NPHET, public health and so on. It is not in favour of a systemic testing regime at airports. It believes it could do more damage than good. We might have different views on the matter but ultimately Government has to decide. From a layperson's perspective it might appear obvious to test but there are all sorts of implications and complications arising from that, such as false positives, false n…

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