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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: The Deputies do not want to listen. It is a deliberate tactic.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: In the first instance, I thank the Deputy for raising the question. I commend the courage of those women and indeed men, who have shared their experience and have come forward through Women of Honour and Men and Women of Honour, and also current serving members of the Defence Forces who are not members of those specific groups, who have also been very candid and frank in sharing their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: That is a fair point. I am mindful of the report’s conclusions about the resistance. The Chief of Staff has committed to change and reform. We will quickly develop legislation to appoint an independent external complaints process. That has to happen. Interim steps will be taken to facilitate complaints directly to the Ombudsman, which can happen now and does not have to wait for a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: We will amend the Defence Act 1954 to provide a legislative basis for allegations of any type of sexual assault in the Defence Forces to be referred to An Garda Síochána. We will also set up a non-statutory inquiry into the practice and process of medical boarding and in respect of issues pertaining to suicide. I envisage taking expert bodies in to assess that issue in a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: The Government has provided a rationale for the decision from the outset. I gave it earlier this morning. It is that an indefinite eviction ban would make the situation far worse and create a greater exodus of properties from the rental market, whereas we need more properties coming into the market. We need to create a framework whereby more people come into the market who are willing to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I do not trade insults with anybody. I have not traded insults with Deputy Connolly in particular. I have responded to her courteously and with respect. I have to put this on the record. Very often comments are made as if we trade all of the insults. We do not. I accept what Deputy Connolly has just said. She has made the very interesting point that no one in the House has called for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Other parties originally said we should do it until Christmas week. Then they said until the end of January, and now there is a new iteration. In addition, I made the point earlier that I believe in building social housing. I am back in government two and a half years and 20,000 social homes have been added to the social housing stock since the Government was formed. I do not believe in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I thank Deputy Collins for raising this issue. I am not aware of the background or detail of this individual case and the O'Donovan family. As Deputy Collins has said, they have been a long-standing business family in Clonakilty down through the years, providing a very good service to the people of Clonakilty and surrounding hinterlands. I am at a difficulty in terms of responding in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: That correspondence has not been brought my attention. I am not clear as to which office it was sent. I put it this to the Deputy through the Chair. Why did he not come to me three weeks ago?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I am just asking the Deputy. There is a way of doing things.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I do not mind the Deputy raising it. I am just asking him. He raised it publicly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy said in his second supplementary question that I had received correspondence three weeks ago. I have not seen that correspondence. I am not sure to which office it was sent. I will check that after this business. Many Deputies in the House, irrespective of parties or party positions, often come to me or tell me there is an issue and ask whether me or my office can do anything...

Tribute to Noel Murphy (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I just was.

Tribute to Noel Murphy (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Pringle could rise to it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Approximately 1,000 units have either been provided or are in the pipeline of being provided-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: -----in respect of the tenant in situscheme. The council is very clear in respect of the tenant in situscheme. I am not clear on the background to the case the Deputy raised, but the council has the capacity to buy that house.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: In the first instance, I pay tribute to Noel Murphy and thank him for his service to the Oireachtas. Very often, it is the people behind the scenes who keep the wheels of parliamentary democracy moving so efficiently and effectively. I thank him very much. I wish him and his family the best of happiness and good health in retirement. In respect of the issues raised by Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I will raise with him the point the Deputy has made.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I will not give a commitment on a referendum because that is a matter for the Government of the day, in terms of foreign policy more generally. I welcome the Deputy's important statement that no one is against debate because at the very mention of hosting a national conversation or forum on foreign policy and security, and I will be bringing proposals to Government in the next number of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: It gets said all of the time.