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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I have already answered. There are enforcements. The RTB is taking action and has sanctioned landlords in respect of breaches. Some 77% of the breaches were in respect of the rent pressure zones. Supply is the key. People can pluck figures out of anywhere but real targets have to take in a number of factors. We know that this year we should be a position to build 33,000 or 34,000...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----which most political parties seem to be adept at doing this right now. We need to be real and be honest with people. Yes, we need to increase supply but unfortunately, I have seen very little policy on increasing supply from anybody in the Opposition.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am listening.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I was amused by the Deputy's commentary. I apologise if he found that a bit disconcerting. You could not make it up really; a left-wing Deputy like himself invoking the right-wing Tory press to attack the Irish Government and the Deputy is taking The Daily Telegraph seriously. There are local elections today in Britain. The Deputy talks about a PR boom-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: We will see by the end of the night whether it has been a PR boon or not. There is no one at any border. There are no checkpoints at the Border. I remember when I met a former British Prime Minister in my time as Taoiseach. There were blazing headlines across the British press, saying the frigates are going to France. Does anyone remember that headline? Can the Deputies not stand back...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am familiar with the issue. A number of bodies are involved in this. The Deputy mentioned the HSE and CUH. University College Cork has priorities in respect of a range of capital investments, involving the Cork University Business School, CUBS, building, the Tyndall National Institute and others, including the dental school. It is regrettable that given the prioritisation of the dental...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Is the Deputy suggesting taking the Garda out of the process of vetting passports? Is she suggesting that we take out the security dimension that is essential to passports?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: In a passport?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: No - to evacuate Irish citizens safely.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am not quite clear as to the Deputy's doubts about the just transition programme but it is an important programme. It is an essential programme to deal with what has been a decarbonisation agenda across the country but obviously with a particular focus on the midlands and Offaly, which have been at the frontier of transformation in terms of energy generation and the transformation of Bord...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: There is a national fund. I do not have the breakdown of the national fund in terms of its allocation to Offaly and other counties. I think Deputy Nolan is talking specifically about the €18 million that was available from the EU. There are obviously further allocations to be made from the EU fund because that fund will provide up to €169 million. The Deputy said €18...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I was 12 years of age when the referendum to join the European Union was passed overwhelmingly by the Irish people. What was interesting about that debate and every other debate about the European Union since then and every other referendum is that people from the Deputy's side of the House predicted conscription-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----membership of NATO, NATO tanks on O'Connell Street-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That has been a consistent line adopted and I have heard it-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputies-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: No, I am not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The old trope of conscription-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----and of joining a European army has been in every referendum.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy just asked if I was going to send Irish troops out to fight in colonial wars-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt. I am entitled, through the Chair, to argue and make points to the House and to answer the questions the Deputy has raised. My point is a valid point and I will not be browbeaten by the Deputy just as she tried to browbeat me last year when I had a consultative forum, which is a basic act of participative democracy. She tried everything to denigrate the chair and tried...