Results 2,101-2,120 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Whatever way we look at it, we do have to look at the cost of financing and I have mentioned here that the commercial banks have to do more in respect of lending at sustainable rates to builders to build in the private sector. We will continue to focus on that work.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: As of now the State is already in the space of facilitating acting as a catalyst in terms of the private sector, with State underpinning essentially or back up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am always open to new ideas, to concrete and substantive ideas. I was not particularly impressed with what the Labour Party put forward in the general election campaign. Establishing a new national building agency would have only delayed things. It would take years to establish and it is a kind of rowing the clock back to earlier eras and to models that simply would not work now in terms...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: There was no clear blueprint, no paper in respect of how this agency was going to be established.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: If the Deputy has other ideas, that is fine, but they have to be focused on getting more houses built and getting them built faster, which I have said consistently over the last while. From about 2020 onwards about 130,000 new homes were built, which is more than anything in the previous decade or more. Momentum did switch. There was a turn and a significant shift in momentum in terms...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Two and a bit months-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is two months in office, despite Deputies' best efforts. An extra €800 million on top of the outturn last year has been allocated to housing. There is €450 million for 3,000 new homes and also funding to fund substantial numbers of tenant in situ homes under that particular programme. The State's investment is enormous relative to historic norms in respect of housing in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I think that is pathetic. The Deputy accuses me of spoofing? Get off the stage. No one was sniggering at any housing problem. The Deputy knows that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is pathetic - the protestation and the Deputy's attempt to exploit that particular moment, completely oblivious and refusing to reference the actual substance of what I said in terms of housing being the number one priority in Ireland. The Deputy can criticise our policies as a Government but she should not try to say she has a monopoly of concern or empathy on the housing question....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----on many an occasion for Sinn Féin, but when it comes to putting the party fist as opposed to the country first, Sinn Féin will always put the party first.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is why Deputy McDonald did not go to the US-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: On spurious grounds, she did not go to the US.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: No one is convinced-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----about your false assertions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ní aontaím in aon chor leis an Teachta as ucht an méid a dúirt sí. Níl aon amhras ach gurb é an t-ábhar is tábhachtaí agus is práinní sa tír seo ná cúrsaí tithíochta. An phríomhaidhm atá againn mar Rialtas ná níos mó tithe a chruthú agus é sin a dhéanamh chomh tapa...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and discuss those issues with them. On the housing issue, if I could comment for a moment, there were several projections throughout 2024 in respect of completions. We have exceeded targets, particularly in 2022 and 2023. We exceeded Central Bank targets and other targets that suggested we would come in lower. That is the position. The first quarter of the following year is when the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are retaining the Child Poverty and Well-being Programme Office in the Department of the Taoiseach because we know we need to continue to build on the work to break down silos between departments and drive delivery. We will not be able to make a decisive impact on child poverty without a whole of government and whole of society response. From Poverty to Potential: A Programme Plan for...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are retaining the Child Poverty and Well-being Programme Office in the Department of the Taoiseach because we know we need to continue to build on the work to break down silos between departments and drive delivery. We will not be able to make a decisive impact on child poverty without a whole of government and whole of society response. From Poverty to Potential: A Programme Plan for...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Government has recently agreed to establish a number of Cabinet Committees including a Cabinet Committee on the Economy, Trade and Competitiveness, a Cabinet Committee on Housing, a Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure, and a Cabinet Committee on Climate Action and Energy. Transport-related issues, including the delivery of MetroLink, are likely to arise at each of these Committees, but...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Government has recently agreed to establish a number of Cabinet Committees including a Cabinet Committee on the Economy, Trade and Competitiveness, a Cabinet Committee on Housing, a Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure, and a Cabinet Committee on Climate Action and Energy. Transport-related issues are likely to arise at each of these Committees, but in particular the Cabinet Committee...