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Ceisteanna - Questions: Artificial Intelligence (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 15 to 20, inclusive, together. I travelled to Paris for the AI Action Summit on 10 and 11 February, co-hosted by President Macron and Prime Minister Modi of India. The summit gathered key stakeholders to explore how we can develop artificial intelligence, AI, technologies and uses globally while ensuring that nobody is left behind. It also discussed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Get out of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Do not tell me to get out of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: You cannot talk about personalities in here.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: This Government and the previous Government built more social houses than had been built since the 1970s in the past four years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is a fact. Up to 48,000 social housing units were built. Nothing compares with that in the previous 15 or 20 years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy just keeps on shouting.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy keeps coming forward with facile and superficial analysis of the housing crisis.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: He sets himself up as a housing expert. He is nothing of the sort.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is why I would appreciate if he allowed other people to give their perspective. The only reason I raised my eyes was because I thought it was wrong of the Deputy to personalise the issue, demonise an individual who cannot defend himself in this House and make the assertions he has made about someone who has not been nominated to any position by Government. No decision has been taken,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: We have built close to-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is an elected representative and he has set himself up-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I did not say the Deputy was-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is not a construction housing expert. He never has been. He is-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy lectures in social policy, and I believe he is a good lecturer in social policy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: That does not make the Deputy a housing expert.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: It was good for the electoral pathway.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: In terms of social housing, there has been a significant step change. Last year, more than 10,000 social houses were delivered. More than 48,000 social houses have been added to the social housing stock since 2020. We need to do more and we need to build more social houses. The tenant in situ scheme was introduced in 2023. All Deputies have correctly raised that. There was no tenant in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 14, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on housing last met on Monday, 31 March and is due to meet again this Thursday, 1 May. The committee works to ensure a co-ordinated approach to the implementation of housing policy. Housing supply has increased significantly over the past number of years. We now have the highest social housing build...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: If it is 60%, that is too high. It creates unfair pressure for those, namely young couples or young people generally, who might be endeavouring to buy houses for the first time. I will certainly talk to the Minister for housing and Limerick City and County Council on that issue. The balance has to be right. We want approved housing bodies and councils to be building houses in the first...