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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: It is essential and I do not want to see it deteriorating. Deputy Haughey raised the issue of what transpired at the British-Irish Council. He made a very good point on Brexit. The First Minister of Wales was very clear on the negative impact of Brexit on Wales, in particular the decline in the volume of goods going through Welsh ports. The Welsh are very worried about the long-term...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I have had a number of recent contacts with the President of the United States. I most recently spoke to him by phone on 14 November. I spoke to him in person in the margins of the World Leaders’ Summit at COP26, when he reaffirmed his full commitment to protecting the Good Friday Agreement, and I expressed my appreciation for the strong position he has taken in that regard. As part of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (7 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: Energy usage in the Government Buildings complex, which includes the Department of the Taoiseach, is administered by the Houses of the Oireachtas. Energy usage in the Department is incurred for lighting, heating, air-conditioning, hot water, office and IT equipment. The amount expended by my Department on lighting and heating in the past five years is set out in tabular form as follows: ...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Properties (7 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: My Department will continue to comply with latest public health advice and the Work Safely Protocol in relation to attendance by staff in the workplace. Most staff are working from home unless it is necessary to attend the workplace in person. The Department is maintaining its regime of COVID measures in the workplace to ensure the safety of staff who continue to attend, including...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Protected Disclosures (7 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: My Department has received no protected disclosures from serving or former staff of the Department or the National Economic and Social Development Office, the only body under the aegis of my Department, during the period in question.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Enterprise Sector (7 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: There is no provision in my Department’s budget allocation for the promotion and support of the social enterprise sector in 2022.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Government has prioritised housing as the key social issue that needs to be addressed. In that context, it produced Housing for All, which is the very opposite to the so-called deafening silence on the part of the Government to which the Deputy referred. I have listened to her for quite a long time on housing but I see very little substance. I see a lot of sloganeering, sound bites and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I would say to Deputy Cullinane that if Sinn Féin had voted for the proposals relating to the Oscar Traynor Road site, I would believe a bit more in its credibility. Sinn Féin needs to explain.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I do not understand how Deputy McDonald can stand up and rant on in the sound-bite manner in which she does and sit down without explaining to anybody why Sinn Féin voted against 853 social, affordable and cost-rental homes at the Oscar Traynor Road site. The latter was the latest in a series of deliberate decisions by Sinn Féin to oppose substantial housing proposals for Dublin....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: It voted against 1,200 social, affordable and private homes in Donabate. It voted against them. How can we declare something a crisis in that light? I have said this to all, but Sinn Féin in particular has been opposing projects across the board that involve social and affordable housing. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has committed to 4,000 new affordable...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: It is like Tommy Cooper long ago, it is a case of just like that. "Just like that, we will make it 20,000". The Minister says there will be 4,000 affordable and, just like that, Sinn Féin will say "We will make it 8,000". There is no substance behind it. It is just empty rhetoric as far as I can see. The Sinn Féin approach to housing is to exploit the housing crisis to suit its...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----than anything Sinn Féin has to offer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Housing for All strategy was announced some months ago. It is the plan. I challenge Deputy McDonald to come up with a detailed, substantive alternative plan to the Housing for All strategy because she knows deep down the detail is there and it is comprehensive. The issue is now delivery and implementation because supply is key to the housing crisis. That begs the question of why her...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----significant housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: It does.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Carthy has said it - it is ideology.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: On Oscar Traynor Road, how long more are we going to have to hang around waiting?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Carthy has been very helpful in his interruption because he has confirmed Sinn Féin voted against the Oscar Traynor Road proposal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: That is 853 social, affordable and cost rental houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: As a party, Sinn Féin has voted consistently-----