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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: -----and a chronic shortage of social housing. Does the Taoiseach accept that it is cowardly and cynical to blame local councils when central government has been the main culprit in preventing the fast delivery of homes?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: What about this morning's report in the Irish Independent?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: No, I am talking about today's newspapers and other media.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Irish Independent-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: No, the Government agreed this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: I am intrigued that the Taoiseach is disowning the deliberate briefing by his Ministers to the Irish Independent this morning.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: I suspect that the Irish Independentwill be amazed as well that the Taoiseach is disowning the article.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: I would like the Taoiseach to disown this morning's briefing to theIrish Independent formally.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: This is the classic way the Government operates.Government members were in Cork last week with the hard hats and the vests.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: Four of them had shovels. They were digging up the old site.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: We are well used to that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: This is no smiling matter, Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: I ask the Taoiseach and the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, to knock on the doors in Cork North-Central, as I have. They will really feel the anger then. There is real anger on the doorsteps because people do not believe the Government's bluster and spin. They might believe its candidate, Ms Verona Murphy, who said that the Minister had a let them eat cake attitude. Her words, apparently,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: The real issue is that the people out there are very angry. Parents are angry that their children have no prospect of owning a home. Homelessness is rising. People are ashamed of the fact that this country has such a high level of homelessness and that young children are still in hotels and emergency accommodation. All they get is a briefing to a newspaper this morning blaming the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: -----that we will blame everybody else but ourselves. That is his approach to housing and the other key issues facing this country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: He agreed that the €2 million would go up to €6 million. Is he seriously suggesting-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: -----that he cannot trust local authorities to build more than ten houses without having to get sanction from some official in the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government? Is that why we are paying the CEOs of councils large salaries? Is the Taoiseach stating that it would be reckless to allow the councils to spend more than €2 million on projects involving 20 houses?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: That is what is delaying the delivery of housing. The Taoiseach has no sense of or feel for how people are suffering out there because of the lack of housing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said the same thing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: It is not.