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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 21 to 29, inclusive, together. We have condemned the war since the start as immoral and unjustifiable, and rightly so, but the evidence emerging at the weekend of horrific crimes against civilians in regions north of Kyiv is especially and profoundly shocking. Such unspeakable deeds cannot go unanswered and those responsible must be held to account. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Carthy began the round of questions and referred to the pig industry. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, has been working intensively with the industry and we are conscious of the difficulties and challenges it has been going through on a number of fronts. It is normally a viable industry and we will do everything we can to support it. We will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Haughey raised the importance of making sure that evidence is gathered and that we bring the evidence of the appalling war crimes to the International Criminal Court, which I wholeheartedly support. Everybody condemns the appalling and indiscriminate murder of civilians in Bucha and in other towns in the environs of Kyiv. One is also conscious that in Mariupol and other cities, more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: We should be accelerating their applications to join the European Union, particularly Ukraine but also the western Balkan countries, where quite a number of states are well advanced. The European Union has been somewhat too slow in accepting their applications and some member states have held back in agreeing to allowing those countries to join. From a geopolitical perspective, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I am dealing with the questions one by one. It is not all about the Deputy. There are other Deputies in the House and I am answering their questions. I wanted to make that point. Deputy Barry raised the cancellation of debt. Again, the European Union has been and will continue to be the biggest donor to Ukraine. I have no doubt that in the aftermath of this war, it will be Europe and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: This is the classic stuff that you guys go on with, the whole time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: You never acknowledge that, for example, Germany is the biggest donor to Ukraine on a humanitarian level. I have no doubt that the international response will be one of absolute support for Ukraine and there will be various mechanisms to facilitate that. I have no intention of reducing that to a mere slogan. Deputy Richmond raised the issue of the expulsion of diplomats. Expelling four...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I do not forget it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I do not forget anything. I do not think we need to juxtapose one against the other all the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I believe war crimes should be pursued in every context.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I said every context. Deputy Paul Murphy referred to the European Union. At the last European Council meeting, it decided to establish a fund to restore and reconstruct Ukraine in the aftermath of the war and to help with its current budgeting. Issues with debt will have to be worked out in the aftermath of the war. In the meantime, the focus is on trying to defend the people from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: In response to Deputy Bríd Smith, we raised the issue of fossil fuels and renewables. President von der Leyen and the Commission put forward a strong narrative about energy for the future. The obvious future pathway is renewables. By the end of 2030, we have to eliminate any dependence on Russian gas, oil and coal.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Renewables are the most effective way to do it. In the context of the war, one cannot ignore that countries need gas and fuel now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: There will be LNG across Europe. We cannot tell them-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Dillon raised the issue of wider implications for diplomatic matters, which I have dealt with. I covered the issues raised by Deputy Paul Murphy too.

Address by H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, a Chathaoirligh, President Zelenskyy, Ireland is resolute in our solidarity and support for Ukraine. We thank President Zelenskyy for his heartfelt, honest, clear and, indeed, historic address to our Parliament this morning. The strength of his commitment and that of the people of Ukraine to his country and to restoring its place as a free, safe, democratic and an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: First, the Deputy did not actually call for anything of the sort that I proposed in the House yesterday in terms of the comprehensive approach I and the Government want to take to what is, without question, a very serious issue for the Irish economy and the European economy. That is manifested in the main at the moment by inflation. I said yesterday that we have had two, if not three,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: The way the carbon tax was structured benefits those on the lowest incomes, as the Deputy knows. That is the factual position and the research shows that but I know that evidence-based research is not the Deputy's forte in matters of this kind. That is what the research shows.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: That said, we are conscious of the impacts of the carbon tax. That is why the fuel allowance has risen so dramatically-----