Results 36,681-36,700 of 51,299 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, if I may. This is a recurring feature of Leader's Questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: There is an open mic with the Deputy. I do not have that facility when other Deputies are speaking and I do not interrupt. This is a regular occurrence and I have to bring it to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's attention.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is disrupting. It is deliberately premiditated recently.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line and what I am saying to the Deputy is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have given the answers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, there is a regular open mic every day now-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: This is every day.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I just want to make-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Caithfear é-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: First, I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. As a former member of Government, Deputy Howlin realises the enormous issue facing society because we are living longer, which is a good thing. In the last 50 years, the transformation of health has been extraordinary. In the last 100 years the average life span has increased by 25 years in this country, which is quite a dramatic...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Well, increases, basically, let us be honest here.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: That is what all the parties in the House have signed up for, it seems, if that is what is in the report. I understand, by the way, why that would be a recommendation. The Cabinet committee will look at this after the publication of the report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare. We said we would look at the pensions issue six months after we got the Commission on Pensions report,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Yes, I know. When I was in opposition the last time, the only committee that did its work honourably, or at least the majority did, was the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action. It made recommendations that were not palatable electorally but Oireachtas committees are not often disposed to making recommendations that are electorally unpalatable. That said, I will read the report and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have not read the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection in detail. I thought Deputy Howlin said it had recommended increases in PRSI but I am not so sure that it has done so.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have an open mind, genuinely. The Government will approach this with an open mind. The Commission on Pensions did very detailed work, under Ms Josephine Feehily's chairmanship. It did genuine, bona fide work. It is work that will feed in. The joint committee has examined that. The Deputy made the point that it is fiscally sound. That will be examined. It has to be fiscally sound....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: About six Bills have already been passed to protect tenants' rights generally. In particular, the Tyrrelstown amendment provides that where a landlord proposes to sell ten or more units in a single development at the same time, that sale is subject to the existing tenants remaining in situ, other than in exceptional circumstances. The Deputy, to be fair to him, has raised the situation in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The constitutional framework does restrict. It was possible during Covid because of lockdown and the 5 km rule. The legal advice was that in that context, in a lockdown scenario, one could do it but one could not do it outside of that where people could move to get alternative accommodation. When people were restricted to the 5 km rule the legal judgment was made that we could freeze...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I know that. I am trying to give an honest answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: There are always constraints on the Legislature because we have a written Constitution. That is why we live in the kind of democracy that we do. We are one of the few countries that have a written Constitution, which is a limitation on the Executive and the Oireachtas.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have the power through constitutional amendment if we so wish.