Results 2,081-2,100 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Doherty was not asking the question. It was the Social Democrats.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The point I am trying to make to the Deputy is there were different estimates and so on about targets.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The previous year, the Central Bank underestimated what we would increase by.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: In terms of the individual summaries Ministers get, many were referring to the Central Bank's reports.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Others were referring to EUROCONSTRUCT-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is this-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----the only way you ultimately find out is in the first quarter of the following year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The first quarter of the following year, you get the data.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: In previous years, people said we would not reach our targets.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: We actually exceeded them. Some of the estimates, even from official circles, were wrong-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----for the previous year. There was no-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I repeat this-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: There was no attempt to knowingly mislead the people on any of this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: We have worked extremely hard on the housing question. It is our number one priority. It will remain our number one priority.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The focus has to be on how we get those numbers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy attacks because the target last year was not met. When the target was exceeded in 2022 and 2023, the Deputy's line was that the targets were not high enough. No matter what target gets set in here, the Deputy will always find a way to say that the Government is either not setting a target high enough, or if it exceeds it, it clearly did not set it high enough, and so forth. Now...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: My focus now, fundamentally, is to work on a whole set of policies that can get us more houses built faster for young people in particular, so that they can afford to either buy or rent homes. There is a range of issues we have to examine in that regard and continue to develop. As I said, we have already allocated an additional €800 million in respect of housing in the first two to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Obviously the county councils and the city councils will then have to adopt and change their plans to allow for more zoning to allow more houses to be constructed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I would appreciate if Deputy Bacik would send me a paper on the housing solidarity bond. It is a headline at the moment but if she can send me a paper on it we will examine it. Effectively, through the CREL initiative, for example, and the LDA has effectively been upfronting the financing of a lot of private sector housing. That is de facto what is happening right now through the LDA.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: There is an issue with the cost of financing but the State cannot be the first and last bank of resort in respect of house construction. Probably up to €7 billion and more this year is the totality of State spending on housing.