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Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together. The Programme for Government 2025 - Securing Ireland's Future was approved by the Government on 23 January 2025. We will be working to establish an office in my Department to ensure the full implementation of the programme for Government over the lifetime of the Government. The programme sets out policy and legislative proposals for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy will be aware that in my capacity as Minister for Defence we had significant discussions on this issue in this House. I outlined substantially the amendments that we were considering, essentially to end the veto. I do not accept Deputy Murphy's point about the General Assembly. I dealt with that before as well. Essentially, it is the Security Council that has the veto. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Yes, but things have changed dramatically. Russia's behaviour, which has always been challenging in terms of human rights and compliance - you guys say that in a pro forma way but you do not really deal with it to the same extent as others-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: It does. It is the Security Council that approves peacekeeping missions. That is the reality and the Deputy knows that. The triple lock is essentially about taking the Security Council out of the decision making. The Dáil has to decide and the Government of the day has to decide and anything we decide has to be in accordance with military neutrality and our Constitution.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank all of the Deputies for raising issues with me. Regarding Deputy Boyd Barrett's comments, that is a matter for the entire Oireachtas. It is not a Government issue as such because the Oireachtas Commission presumably-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Let me finish. I do not have the full background to this. I do not know whether these are self-employed contractors or how the company won the contract but it seems to me to be fundamentally an issue that the Deputy should raise in the context of the Oireachtas Commission and the organisation of the House. I do not know whether he has done that or not in the context of the House but-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I know but I do not think this issue has been raised with me in the past. It never has been-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Yes, but I am just wondering if he has raised it. He has been in the House a long time. I am just wondering whether he has-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Fair enough. Okay. Anyway, it is a matter for the commission and we will certainly check it out-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Where is this?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Regarding Deputy Shane Moynihan's comments, it is true that his constituency is a rapidly growing one. In the considerations for the updated and renewed national development plan, we will look at what can be included and what types of developments can be done, particularly in respect of rail services more generally, public transport and roads infrastructure, particularly in new areas. Very...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: To respond to Deputy Boyd Barrett, the local authority needs to take action. Increasingly, people are asking the Government to get into the workings of local councils. They should be rehousing people-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: They should be rehousing people who are in the conditions the Deputy outlined. In many local authorities across the country, that has happened. Many of the regeneration schemes in Dublin seem to be very slow compared with those in other areas, which have been more extensive and focused. I do not know why that is. Some of the flat complexes and so on should have been refurbished a long...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I know. That is what I am saying, but the council should do it. More social housing has been built to facilitate rehousing people who are living in those conditions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: To respond to Deputy Murphy, I mentioned during Leaders' Questions that the Government will put in about €6 billion in 2025. It is estimated that what is required to reach the targets everybody agrees with will be between €15 billion and €20 billion. The Government will not be able to do €15 billion to €20 billion on an ongoing basis. It can do €6...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is fairly competitive in here.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I am conscious that Deputy Shane Moynihan and-----