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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: There is no issue there. I recently met more than 30 organisations with the Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin. Separately, I also met individual musicians with Senator Murphy to discuss issues they had. What comes to mind in the context of music, performance, entertainment and hospitality is the wide diversity of interests and sub-sectors within the sector, so we do-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: This is the final set of questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: The ideal way forward is more bespoke models. I am not responsible for headlines. The only briefings we get relate to the numbers on EWSS. We certainly did not get a headline saying hundreds of thousands of people could be laid off. In fact, what seems to be emerging - this is not a fact but rather it is suggested by trends - is there has been less scarring of the economy than we might...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I did not say that. I have answered the questions. Come on, now. The Deputy is trying to put words in my mouth, as she has done previously.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I said the memorandum was got did not relate to the headlines. I am not responsible for headlines. There was no memorandum predicting that 300,000 jobs would be lost.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: Amárach, beidh mé ag cruinniú tábhachtach sa Bhruiséil, ag labhairt agus ag plé leis na páirtnéirí ó gach cearn den Eoraip. Tá mé ag súil leis. Gan amhras, beidh an-chuid ábhar faoi chaibidil againn i rith na laethanta atá le teacht. Tomorrow, 15 December, I will attend the eastern partnership summit in Brussels....

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: You hate the European Union. You condemn the European Union, and you are silent on Russia and Ukraine.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: Very interesting.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: Electricity usage in the Government Buildings complex, which includes the Department of the Taoiseach, is administered by the Houses of the Oireachtas. There is no further breakdown of electricity costs provided for the specific usage areas requested by the Deputy beyond the total electricity costs paid by the Department which was provided to the Deputy in answer to the question last week.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: Attached is a tabular breakdown of the covid-related advertising spend from 1 January 2020 to 30 November 2021. Since March of 2020, my Department has co-ordinated communications for the whole-of-government response to the pandemic. This necessitated expenditure on a broad range of targeted public messaging across over fifty different information campaigns. The overall communications strategy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: Ar dtús, táim buíoch den Teachta as an ábhar seo a ardú. Aontaím leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle chun ár gcomhbhrón a dhéanamh le muintir Uí Mhurchú as bás Ashling. Níl aon amhras ach go bhfuil an tír go léir an-bhuartha ar fad maidir leis an méid atá tarlaithe. Tá tuiscint againn go léir le...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: I agree with what the Deputy has said. Delivery and the maintaining of momentum on this will be key. The week before Ashling's murder, I met the Minister for Justice and, separately, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, looking ahead. We focused on the issue and on the issue that others have raised in this House about having a focal point and a lead...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for his question and his earlier remarks. We will work together on the issue of gender-based violence and violence against women. On the question of the leaving certificate, we fully accept the challenges and we know that the education and learning experience of many students has been disrupted this year. All of the planning for the 2022 examinations was guided, above...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: I do not want to pre-empt the outcome of tomorrow's meeting-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----or any further engagements between the Minister and the respective partners in education. I understand, however, the need for clarity and certainty for the students in terms of understandable worry, anxiety and stress levels. That is absolutely clear. The Minister is also clear on that front. I am not in a position to give the Deputy a date or timeline for this particular process to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: First, I agree wholeheartedly with the overarching principle that the Deputy has articulated on the need to eliminate all forms of violence against women and to create the policies and the mechanisms for the delivery of those policies to achieve that. As I said, the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, has been working, to be fair, over the last 12 months on an overarching national strategy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: On the latter point, I agree about the need for additional places and that we need to do it as quickly as we possibly can. We have had three Departments, namely, those responsible for housing, children and justice, in this system and that is not optimal. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has largely provided for the refuge places to be developed through the new...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----and the capacity to deliver in the classroom. That is the key.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I welcome the report from the Northern and Western Regional Assembly on vacancy and dereliction based on its analysis of the region. I did not realise Deputy Naughten had written a chapter in the Housing for All strategy but he is correct about the section that deals with the issue of vacant houses. There is a particular need, through a towns...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2022)

Micheál Martin: I agree with the latter point in terms of those in nursing homes being able to make their houses available for rent. There have been issues - these have been argued to and fro - in terms of protecting people and safeguarding the rights of those who may be in nursing homes. That said, the overarching priority now is housing and the provision of all available units for the purposes of...