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- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Travel (22 Jan 2025)
Micheál Martin: The table below sets out a schedule of all foreign travel and associated costs undertaken by me in my capacity as Minister for Defence along with my accompanying officials in 2023 and 2024. Destination Dates of Travel Total Cost Lebanon 25th - 27th January, 2023 €6,171.96 Brussels 22nd - 23rd May,...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Jan 2025)
Micheál Martin: As Minister, I am deeply committed to the transformation of the Defence Forces into a modern fit for purpose organisation to defend the State and meet the challenges of today and the future. The Commission on the Defence Forces was established on foot of a commitment in the Programme for Government, and its report was published on the 9th of February 2022. There were 69 main...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (22 Jan 2025)
Micheál Martin: Public procurement procedures require a successful tenderer for public contracts to meet certain standards, including requirements in relation to taxation, and my Department adheres fully to these, including a requirement for a Tax Clearance Certificate where the value of payments in a year exceeds €10,000. The application of Irish taxation legislation is ultimately a matter between...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (22 Jan 2025)
Micheál Martin: I wish to advise the Deputy that My Department has had no public contracts issued to Abtran, Edgeway Group Unlimited and Forrest Hill Global Unlimited in the last 10 years.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Jan 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am advised by the military authorities of the following breakdown by rank of the members serving in the Permanent Defence Force at the end of 2023 and end of 2024 is as follows: - - 2023 2024 Lieutenant General 1 1 Major General 2 2 Brigadier General (Commodore NS) 8 ...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Jan 2025)
Micheál Martin: With regard to vacant residential type properties in the Curragh, I am advised that none of these properties can be occupied without considerable refurbishment and were built before the Building Regulations and associated standards arising from same came into effect. A consultant was commissioned by the Defence Forces to assess the condition of the vacant housing in barracks and its...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Jan 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am advised by the military authorities of the following breakdown by rank of females serving in the Permanent Defence Force at the end of the years requested, and including 2024: - 2021 2022 2023 2024 Brigadier General (Commodore NS) 1 0 0 0 Colonel (Captain NS) 1 ...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thought the Deputy might grab the opportunity.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Níl aon dabht ann ach gurb í an ghéarchéim is mó atá againn sa tír seo ná an easpa tithíochta. Níl a dhóthain tithe againn. Caithfimid gach aon dícheall a dhéanamh chun i bhfad níos mó tithe a chruthú chomh tapa agus is féidir linn. Housing is the number one social priority in this country. It goes to the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: No, they were not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Clearly the targets-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----were realistic because targets are-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----assessed by a number of factors.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Need is a different question to target. Need relates to our population growth. We have to devise methods, mechanisms and policies that get us to what we need. I do not dispute what we need. Different parties had different programmes in the last general election.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Could I say to the Deputy that if we take the three years combined, 2022, 2023 and 2024----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: ----we exceeded our targets by close to 5,000 houses. That is not of interest to the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line of the general election is that the programme Sinn Féin put forward did not persuade people. It wanted to dramatically disrupt and change the Land Development Agency.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin wanted to get rid of the help-to-buy scheme and the first home scheme, which are so beneficial to first-time buyers. Its programme did not persuade.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The platform as to how Sinn Féin was going to achieve a housing breakthrough or higher numbers simply did not persuade people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has got to acknowledge that is the reality of it. We have exceeded targets in two years. In the third year, we did not. I am extremely disappointed with that. The estimates out there from the entities I have identified were clearly pointing in a direction which did not turn out to be the case.