Results 34,101-34,120 of 51,089 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: We need to build up the cities around the country. That is not an issue of points of contact and the chairman is not the issue.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I have dealt with this earlier. This is not an abandonment of anybody. There is a key issue about the supply of apartments and that is one that has to be balanced. We could do what people want and increase taxation or do this or that. All of that could, cumulatively, reduce-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----the supply of apartments on the market. However, what we have done now with the 10% stamp duty is we have made a far better situation for first-time buyers of houses and duplexes. We are going to keep this-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: We need to build more apartments and we need to-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: We need to work on the viability of apartments.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: The cost-rental scheme will be important in that regard and the affordability-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: The affordability initiatives that have been undertaken by the Minister will help, but we have an awful lot more to do-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----and we are not going to do it if we end up in-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: ------endless ideological warfare, which seems to be the only-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: ------proposition coming from the Deputy and others.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that we need more supply. I have------
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: Obviously, the Minister for Education is responsible for the overall building programme. I know that Deputies across the constituency are engaged on this issue. Deputy Lahart has been in touch in relation to it as well. I will certainly talk to the Minister to see if we can get progress on that project.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I thank Deputy Murphy for raising this issue. The Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, has been in touch with me as well in relation to the CT scanner issue. We will be working with the Minister for Health and the HSE in relation to that because I know there has been a campaign locally and a lot of fundraising as well behind that. In relation to the wider programme, the national HSE...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is unfortunate in the House of late that politics and politicians get compared to Nazi Germany. This is the second time in recent weeks that Deputy McGrath has articulated that and I think it is bringing the Parliament----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----to a low level, to be frank.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: Public health is about saving people's lives and the only reason for the public health Act was the pandemic. No Government wants to be introducing the kind of measures that we have had to introduce for the last 12 months but we do it on public health advice to protect people's health and to save lives. The legislative framework is required to enable Government to take those initiatives and...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is a slur on our Parliament-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----and I do not think it should be allowed.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: I will speak to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, in relation to those points. Perhaps the Deputy might forward them to the Minister as well just to illustrate them because, obviously, I do not have the detail of the individual cases or the council involved.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)
Micheál Martin: First of all, we will do everything we possibly can in terms of renewing international travel in as safe a way as we possibly can, both by participating in the European Union green digital certificate framework and also in terms of bringing in supports for the aviation industry to enable particularly Shannon Airport and Cork Airport, and the airports generally, to incentivise and bring travel...