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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I was talking about what the Deputy said to me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, Deputy, you had an opportunity to go into government but you did not show up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the housing subcommittee of the Cabinet met. We made some concrete decisions in respect of housing. There will be an additional €450 million of funding to build a further 3,000 affordable and social homes, and cost rental accommodation. We made the decision to establish a strategic housing activation office, as recommended by the Housing Commission, of which the Deputy is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: The county development plans will allow us to reach, or give us a fighting chance of reaching, the targets identified by the ESRI.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Opposition has a habit of making assertions that are not grounded in any facts. I challenge Deputy Bacik-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is telling a falsehood, yes. I challenge Deputy Bacik-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----to find any statement where I said I would end RPZs and replace them with nothing. That is what she just said. I challenge her to find that statement for me and present it because it is a deliberate distortion of what I said. The Housing Agency began a review of RPZs last year - not me, the Housing Agency. The expiry date is the end of this year. The Housing Commission says the same...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputy and I did not finish my statement but, again, the heckling starts because the Opposition does not like what it is hearing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Is it possible to have a serious debate, which the people deserve, on housing without the name calling and attempts to politically undermine and distort what is being said? I do not think it is possible to have such a debate with the Opposition, given the Deputy's contribution just now and her misrepresentation of what I said publicly. I will say again that the last Government moved from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is no laissez-faire. Níl sé sin fíor. We have a robust legal framework to deal with knife crime. As I said, in September we increased the maximum penalty. There is a proactive policing operation to seize knives. There has been an increase in the number of knives being seized each year and that proactivity will continue. Again, we have to support the Garda. We have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: For the record of the House, I offered to intervene-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: ----- and I have been refused.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Ar dtús báire, is mian liom a rá gur uafásach ar fad é an méid atá tar éis tarlú, ní hamháin in Stoneybatter ach i rith an deireadh seachtaine. Déanaim comhbhrón le clann Quham Babatunde a fhuair bás agus leis an duine a bhí gortaithe mar aon leis sin. Níl sé sásúil gan amhras in aon chor....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, I am taking issue with what has happened here today.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have not been allowed to address this in any shape or form-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and I have offered.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: A Citizens’ Assembly on the Good Friday Agreement constitutional provisions / Irish unity is not planned and is not included in the Programme for Government. In the event of a future referendum within the consent provisions of the Good Friday Agreement, the Government would make all necessary preparations in accordance with the terms of the Constitution and the procedures of the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Funding (18 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Department of the Taoiseach did not receive funding support for any projects from the United States of America International Development during the time period given, nor did any bodies under the aegis of the Department.