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- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (16 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: As Taoiseach, I regularly travel to participate in formal and informal meetings of the European Council, in Brussels and elsewhere. In keeping with the Government’s Global Ireland 2025 strategy, I also place a high importance on engaging actively with fellow Heads of State and Government, both within the EU and more widely. I also use international visits to promote Ireland’s...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue of housing, because I have repeatedly said that, in my view, housing is the single most urgent and important social issue facing our country at this point in time. Access to housing is fundamental to our security, stability, health and progress as a society. If we do not recognise the scale of the challenge and respond in kind, then this has the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It goes back beyond that, and the Deputy's party keeps saying no. It always has an excuse and a reason to say this project cannot go ahead and so on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The crisis is so big that we need to get on with it in terms of allowing projects and rezonings to happen. The scale of the house building that must occur means the rezoning of brownfield sites. Let us be clear about that. It is not going to be possible to get 20,000 or 30,000 units per year if we do not do that. We need cities to grow in a compact way where services already exist. All...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It will mean the disposal of property. Councils will have to dispose of lands-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----to enable housing to happen. Old industrial sites in cities will have to be rezoned for housing. If councils have land, they should dispose of it to ensure that housing happens-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: To get housing built, and perhaps in partnership, as we are doing in some places across the country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The context here is very clear. We need to build houses at a far greater scale than we have been in recent years and we must do it quickly.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: No one party can say, "It is our way or the highway, or that you do it in accordance with our ideological framework or not at all." That has been the nature of the Deputy's party's position for a considerable time. The Housing for All strategy is ambitious and has a strong delivery mechanism to get houses built. We need to get to 33,000 houses per year, with a mix of social, private,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy used the word "corrupt".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin is the last party to talk to anybody about corruption.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald's party corrupted public life in this republic for well-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----on 40 years to a far greater degree than any other party in this country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It corrupted the moral code of our country and society by the murder and mayhem that it perpetrated, and that it still endorses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It still supports the narrative of murder, mayhem and so forth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The party also supports the undermining of women-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----who were raped by IRA volunteers-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy's party covered it up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Do not come into this House-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and lead with your chin, telling this party that we were corrupt. We had faults and flaws, about which there is no doubt, but we faced up to them. We never, ever attempt, as Sinn Féin consistently does, to try to rewrite the narrative and bury the truths.