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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: There are tens of thousands of people in this country working in cafes and restaurants throughout the length and breadth of the country. They are workers. It is an industry under pressure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: Studies show-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: Studies show that increased labour costs did impact on those businesses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: Deputies should not be so dismissive of the hospitality sector, as they are in their commentary, and likewise in terms of housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: We do need to narrow the viability gap. The Deputy is all bluff and bluster about housing-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----but any time there is a solution that can contribute to housing-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----Sinn Féin just knocks it and condemns it and sloganises it by saying it is a tax break for developers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: What it is about-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the leader of Deputy Doherty's party-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and he should stop heckling and shouting and being Mr. Angry all the time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is this-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: Well, maybe Sinn Féin's decision to sit it out and not have a candidate might have been a wise one after all, but anyway-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: I will just say-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin does not-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, that is not good enough. We will either have-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: I think we need fairness. I am not being allowed to answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have to disagree because in terms of the commitments we made in the election, we are following through on them very clearly in this budget.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Bacik avoided the whole area of child poverty.