Results 681-700 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Yes, the Government has made that clear. We will be doing that. It is in the programme for Government. There is a forthcoming national policy on adult safeguarding for the health and social care sector that will set out how existing protections will be strengthened. That will be brought to Government shortly-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and that will commit to the development of adult safeguarding legislation for the sector. We have included the health (adult safeguarding) Bill in our current legislative programme to facilitate this. On a more broader sense, we are looking at a combination. I am trying to be realistic here and respond meaningfully to what the Deputy has articulated. I do not disagree with a lot of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: No, I do not. Just because you use what I would call exaggerated language does not make it true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I repeat that the bottom line is that all existing tenants will not have their rents increased beyond 2%. No attempts by the Deputy to sow confusion will change that reality. The more fundamental point in his presentation is that he and his party do not believe in a role for the market.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I listened to Deputy Hearne, his party spokesperson, say this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Hearne does not believe in a role for the market. He said this. That is his position.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: He said it plenty of times.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is the bottom line.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: He has undermined-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, I did not interrupt once.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: What is intriguing is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: You have attacked and condemned institutional funds-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ah come on. I know your-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ah you can. Sure you make them up every day for God's sake.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Go on out of that. Are you the leader of the Social Democrats now?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy opposite has made assertions in his Leaders' Question and I am quite entitled to respond to them. The bottom line here is supply. There is nothing coming from him on supply. The Housing Commission recommended reform of the RPZ scheme. The Social Democrats welcomed the Housing Commission report at the time and attacked Government for the failure to respond to it. I remember it...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----because of course we have not got rid of RPZs. If anything, as Threshold has stated, we have significantly increased protection for renters while at the same time, in a balanced measure, we have created policy certainty for investment because we desperately needed more supply in the rental market. We clearly do if we are to get to 50,000 per annum. That is the piece the Deputy does...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----bar an SSIA-type investment scheme which would take a couple of years before you had the requisite funds to invest in capital in housing. The State is already investing capital in housing to the tune of €7 billion plus. I put the question yesterday.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: She is back to the vulture funds-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: She then said this morning that if the Government is intent on using institutional funds, it is on the wrong track. Well, go back a few weeks and just replay what Deputy Eoin Ó Broin said on Virgin TV where he acknowledged-----