Results 37,841-37,860 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and we have extended it significantly. It is also why we want to enable people to retrofit their homes, to develop energy efficiency to reduce costs
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The approach I suggest is a broader one which has to involve engagement with our social partners. It is not just about one single measure every week as we move along. That cannot be the way we react. We reacted intelligently, effectively and fast as a country to deal with the pandemic's impact on the economy. The pandemic brought about the greatest decline in our economy since 1939 in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We bounced back because of intelligent policies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, the Deputy is about-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----the electoral and political exploitation of this, rather than looking at it from a point of view of substance.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising those points. Members are looking for initiatives every week and I understand that. We have to stand back, however, and take a more considered view on how we respond to this fairly unique crisis, which has been caused by the combination of a pandemic, emerging from that pandemic and the imbalance of supply and demand which that created and a terrible war, the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Hopefully, by the end of April, there will be a further return to this, with a fuller reform of the market by the end of May.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: There is no point in tackling this with one measure alone. Pay policy is important. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has invited social partners to discuss extending the existing national pay agreement. It should be possible for us, as a society, to work through the different strands of income policy, pay, tax and welfare. The question is whether we can get agreement on...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I know. There will be significant expenditure from here until the end of the year and beyond that. It is necessary and right. With the number of Ukrainians coming into the country, there will be expenditure on education, health and housing, of a significant nature. We have to get the balance right and not just react from week to week and month to month. I think the Deputy accepts that we...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: To be clear, that will not be solved today but we need to engage with the social partners.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. I salute and commend all those volunteers who are doing so much to help Ukrainian refugees to settle in this country. As I said this morning, "our home is your home". The initial focus of our response has been on accommodation. To date, 19,283 people have arrived from Ukraine. Of these, 11,800 have sought accommodation. There has been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate where the Deputy is coming from, but I make the point that, as I said, the hotels, the guest houses and all those facilities are essential. You cannot put hundreds or thousands of people into accommodation without resourcing that. We are very appreciative of the voluntary pledges that came in. More work is needed in the first instance to go through those pledges as quickly as...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We saw that in Belarus last year when it put pressure on Lithuania, Poland and other countries-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. We need balance and perspective in the debate. I fully accept that the cost-of-living increases are having a significant impact on people. These are caused by a war and caused by a pandemic. Without question, the pandemic and the war have caused extraordinary increase in energy prices globally. This is happening now all over the world, not...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in wind energy, for example, and in other issues such as conservation and the preservation of bogs etc. I put it to the Deputy that we have to play our part as a country. The young people of this country want us to play a part.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The implication of what the Deputy has said is that this country should ignore climate change, should let other countries deal with it, that we that should paddle our own canoe and to hell with the consequences and that we should play no part like. Ireland from the foundation of the State believes in the international community. We believe in a rules-based order. We believe in playing our part.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Climate change is existential. I know that the Deputy does not agree with it. He denies that it is happening at all. I think that is his position which he has put forward in the House. I disagree with him. It is existential and we have a duty to the younger generations, to our children and to our children’s children not to stand still now, not to deflect and not to postpone. We...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is nothing to do with Deputy Eamon Ryan. It is nothing to do with the Greens.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It should be the concern of every Deputy in this House and of every Senator.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It should be the concern of everybody.