Results 22,801-22,820 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It illustrates in one story how this Government does not get what it is like for people to be in hotel rooms all over this city and across the country. There was a great opportunity to do something there with one, two and three-bedroom apartments at €100,000 each, rather than the €190,000 for modular homes. It is time the Government understood the urgency of this crisis and...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The programme was not about those complaints.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: People are fed up with the Taoiseach-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----and the deliberate decision never to answer questions that are put to him. In 2012, there were eight families presenting as homeless. In 2014, that number had risen to 40 under the Taoiseach's watch. In 2015, it went to 75, and it rose to 90 in one month last year. This is on the Taoiseach's watch. Threshold, Focus Ireland, Simon and the Peter McVerry Trust all warned the Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is the point I am getting at, Taoiseach. There were 442 apartments out in Tallaght West which the Taoiseach could have directed and ensured were bought.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach could have done that but he chose not to.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: He chose not to spend €83 million. He goes on about modular homes which would cost €190,000. These apartments were sold for €100,000.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach clearly has not watched the television programme to which I referred but I ask him to do so. He might then get a sense of urgency about this issue. He is out of touch with the reality of what life is like on the ground for many vulnerable families in this country. They do not get fairness in terms of treatment because the Taoiseach's philosophy islaissez-faireand to let the...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Rent allowances for vulnerable families are cut allowing them to fall into poverty. The Taoiseach will not direct NAMA to build 10,000 houses.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach could direct NAMA to build 10,000 houses.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: In the budget, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, declared that NAMA would build 20,000 houses.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Now the Taoiseach and his colleagues are saying only 10% of them should be social houses.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am simply saying-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: ----- the urgency of the problem demands an urgent and effective response, not the failure we have had, with local authorities building nothing in recent years. No social housing has been built in recent years.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach to direct NAMA that 10,000 be social houses.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I told the Taoiseach what to do.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Some 10,000 of those houses should be sold to NAMA to be developed in the next five years.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach just does not care about people who have problems.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: He was politically removed.