Results 41,681-41,700 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: As Deputy Ó Broin said on radio last week, Sinn Féin wants public housing on public lands only and therefore it was against affordable housing and public lands, cost-rental and so on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: That is exactly the position.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: If I could, I want to move on, because it is a standard practice now in the House-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: There is a standard practice in the House, which I have witnessed over the last three or four days when Government Members get up to speak, having allowed the Opposition Members to speak without any interruption-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----that Government spokespeople are heckled all the time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Here we go again.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: As I said, considerable progress has been made on housing with 30,000 new homes completed last year, a 45% increase on 2021. We saw the highest number of first-time buyer purchases in the month of January since the Central Statistics Office, CSO, data series began in 2010. Nearly 20,000 social homes have been added to the social housing stock since this Government came in. That was up to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Nobody in this House is voting for homelessness. We want to develop policies that prevent homelessness. It is our view and the advice we have received that an indefinite long-term ban on evictions would make the situation far worse and would create a greater degree of homelessness over the medium to long term. Why? It is because it would take people out of the rental market entirely....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin has had its impact too in terms of the consistent demonisation of that sector for a long time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin proposed to do the very same thing in Christmas week.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Yes, Sinn Féin did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: It did the very same thing in Christmas week.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, I think Sinn Féin's tolerance of free debate has always been one that has been questioned over the years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin’s army of trolls may browbeat-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: I think I have enough said, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: I have enough said. There is no point.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Could I just make the point that I appreciate the challenge you have, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: I have endeavoured to reply. I have been shouted down repeatedly. That is a tactic. I will allow other Members to come in now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: I have. The Deputies do not want to listen.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: I have.