Results 37,161-37,180 of 51,299 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The level of corruption Deputy McDonald's party engaged in-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: To come to the housing issue, what Sinn Féin is good at is rewriting narratives and spinning. In terms of Dublin City Council-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----we have allowed city councils to engage with partners to get housing developed, to get mixed tenure, to get private, affordable and social housing built.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We are doing that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: In addition to that, we have provided €4 billion. The Deputy does not like the truth-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We are going to provide €4 billion year by year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald needs to start answering some questions now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: How is she going to double housing output? She keeps using slogans that she articulates from time to time but there is no meat behind it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: There is no flesh on the bone. There is no reality behind what she is saying. The Deputy can wave all she likes but it does not hide the truth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. In the first instance, along with the Deputy and in the clearest possible terms, I want to condemn Russia's aggression towards its neighbour. It is unilaterally, without any justification whatsoever, threatening and undermining the integrity of an independent democratic state, and this is unacceptable. I agree with the Deputy and I...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for what he said. We will work with the Whips through the Business Committee or otherwise to consider the motion. We support the idea of a cross-party motion condemning Russia's actions. Yesterday, I met with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who made a significant announcement in regard to Nord Stream. The approach all along by the European Union has been to work in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have introduced rent restrictions in this country. I am just back from Berlin. The rent freeze there did not work at all; it had a completely dysfunctional impact on the market. We have to learn lessons. I read the daft.iereport. The fundamental point is that we need to build more houses. Building 20,000 houses a year is not enough. It is a huge factor in terms of where rents are....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is wrong. The last number of housing projects that I opened were all social housing projects, completed. In the first quarter of last year we had a lockdown. The Deputy knows that. There was a full lockdown of construction.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We are and we have introduced rent restrictions. We are going to develop cost rental houses also. In the rent pressure zones, we have capped rent increases at 2%. Supply is the ultimate answer to this. We have to build houses of all types and we need all sectors involved in housing. The Deputy's problem is he does not believe the private sector should be involved at all. That is his...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----but that will not guarantee housing at the scale we require. We need private builders to build houses. We need local authorities to build houses. They are doing so, and we have resourced them to do it. We need approved social housing bodies to build houses, and they are doing so to an increasing extent and to very high standards, as I have witnessed when opening a variety of schemes...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We need to develop cost rental housing, which we are going to do, and continue to provide protections for renters, including in respect of indefinite duration.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: First, there has always been a tradition in this House of not making allegations against people who are not here to defend themselves or respond. Second, my understanding is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy's case went the whole way to the Committee on Procedure and Privileges when she abused privilege in this House.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: She never apologised for her abuse of privilege.