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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.

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

Micheál Martin: She should welcome the move we have made in that regard. We have to do more, but there is a €300 million package alone for the lowest income. Look at the objective assessment. The Labour Party should acknowledge that the two lowest-income deciles will benefit the most from this budget. That is the reality. In terms of disability, there are significant increases in a range of...

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

Micheál Martin: No, I said during the election that I wanted to maintain the enterprise economic model that we have, which Deputy Murphy resolutely opposed.

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

Micheál Martin: That was a big choice in the election and people voted accordingly in terms of that fundamental principle.

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

Micheál Martin: Ní aontaím in aon chor leis an méid atá ráite ag an Teachta. De réir na moltaí a bhí aici féin agus na polasaithe ag Sinn Féin maidir leis an gcáinaisnéis seo, bheadh costais maireachtála ag dul in airde dá mba rud é go gcuireadh i bhfeidhm iad.