Results 48,641-48,660 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----the shallowness of Sinn Féin's approach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am interested in real change and getting things done and you are not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Is féidir liom é seo a shoiléiriú má tá deacracht ag na Teachtaí Dála.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thought you called me.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Táim sásta-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I did not call Deputy McDonald-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I did say, más féidir liom-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am somewhat amused that the Deputy is saying we have influenced housing policy since 2016. For the past two weeks, he has been saying that confidence and supply was in no way a precedent in the context of being involved in Government and so on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: We were not in government from 2016 to 2020; we have been in government since 2020. The Deputy used the phrase "lies of omission".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I would point out that the previous Government carried out a review of the rental sector last year. Following on from that, it requested the Housing Agency to conduct a specific review of the operation of the RPZ scheme. It is doing that. The review will be concluded by the end of quarter 1. That is the intended conclusion date. As the Deputy knows, the legislation that gave rise to the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----is that it is all noise and condemnation, with very few solutions being offered.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am not clear that there are billions of funds in Europe for housing. Any funds that are available, we would seek. However, housing competence within Europe has been at a low level. This is the first Commission with a housing Commissioner. As we have heard in various reports, the European Parliament is also now engaging for the first time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: There are not billions available to Ireland.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: There are not billions available from the European Union in respect of housing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has asked me to respond to his two suggestions. From my engagement with Europe, I am aware that the biggest issue we will face in the context of the next financial framework is how we will increase the European budget, to which Ireland is a net contributor. There are going to be a whole range of demands on us. In Ireland, traditionally, we have always protected the Common...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Within that context, yes, we can respond to a proposal of that kind.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Fresh-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Pardon. It was the word "hell" I did not pick up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: St. Patrick's Day has for many years been a substantive opportunity and occasion for Ireland, globally and in the United States, to engage with decision-makers, communities and the diaspora. We have a substantial diaspora in the United States. It is extremely important that we continue to work with our diaspora and also on our relationship with the United States. President Trump was...