Results 45,841-45,860 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows that. It has been rolled out in every emergency department. There is also an obligation on everybody in this House. I have watched health budgets increase exponentially. In the past three to four years, the health budget has increased dramatically. I think it is up to €8 billion additional or whatever. That is no comfort to Niamh or to other patients but it...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That means in terms of hospital organisation-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of primary care, community care and acute setting, it needs a more rigorous analysis than simply saying more numbers will change things and resolve the issue; not necessarily is the point I am making.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Absolutely I do not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do not doubt the Deputy's commitment to the housing issue, but he presented a narrative that is almost wholly negative, as if nothing was happening in housing or house building. He omitted to say that in quarter 4 last year, rents had not just stabilised but very modestly came down. He is looking at the annualised figures, which may indicate the increased supply of last year and the year...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----social homes were added to the social housing stock in quarter 4 2023. Last year also saw the highest level of new-build social homes since 1975: 8,100 homes, or 12,000 social homes delivered in total if leasing and acquisition and so forth are taken into account. There is a strong pipeline of 22,500 social homes. That is the way to deal with the rental issue. We simply have to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There is no impunity. That is a wrong assertion.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The law is being applied and we have legislated for tenancies of unlimited duration, restricted the level of upfront payments required of tenants and legislated to increase the notice-to-quit period for tenancies of three years' duration or less. The minimum notice a landlord must give a tenant of less than three years' duration has been increased from 28 days to three months. Changes to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: In terms of non-compliance, the RTB has enhanced powers of investigation and sanctioning, and additional resources to ensure-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----that the full protection against unlawful rents in RPZs can be enforced. As a result of investigations conducted by the RTB, 180 sanctions have been imposed on landlords for improper conduct and they have been published on the board's website, which the Deputy did not reference.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: As I said, 77% of published sanctions for improper conduct are for breaches of rent pressure zones. There can be breaches on all sides, which the Deputy never articulates.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: As to one of the factors in people exiting, the Deputy should perhaps inquire into that also.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: In terms of the proposals the Deputy has put forward, I do not see any outcome from them other than further depression of supply in the rental market.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is an issue Deputy O'Callaghan needs to address because if we depress supply we will increase prices even more.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I was 12 years of age when the referendum to join the European Union was passed overwhelmingly by the Irish people. What was interesting about that debate and every other debate about the European Union since then and every other referendum is that people from the Deputy's side of the House predicted conscription-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----membership of NATO, NATO tanks on O'Connell Street-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That has been a consistent line adopted and I have heard it-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputies-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: No, I am not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The old trope of conscription-----