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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I do not have the details on that matter. However, I will talk to the Minister for Justice and ask him if he can communicate with the Deputy in respect of it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank Deputy Gogarty for raising this issue. I will talk to him again about this, but I accept that it is a serious issue. Very often, some of these issues fall between two or three stools, particularly in the context of who is legislatively responsible or when it comes to the different areas involved. We need a co-ordinated approach in respect of this issue. The Ministers for Justice...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: We have already taken that decision. It is not sustainable to say it has a chilling effect because it does not have a chilling effect. Every member state of the European Union, including Ireland, has signed up to the IHRA definition. However, this has not stopped Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and other countries from criticising the State of Israel in respect of its campaign in and bombardment...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is no evidence that it has actually had a chilling effect.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is a clause in the explanatory note, but that is not part of the guidelines. We have been very clear that it in no way, shape or form inhibits anybody from criticising, legitimately, the policies of the Israeli Government in respect of Gaza or the West Bank. That is the factual position, but people keep making these assertions. It has not stopped us one bit from doing what we want to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: In the broader scheme of things, compared with other increases that have happened because of pressures in the market and so on, the impact of this is not similar in scale. However, the Deputy has rightly raised issues about payments to farmers. A third of that revenue goes to farmers in terms of environmental schemes. A third goes to retrofitting. The Deputy will come in to me another...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 14, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on housing last met on Monday, 31 March and is due to meet again this Thursday, 1 May. The committee works to ensure a co-ordinated approach to the implementation of housing policy. Housing supply has increased significantly over the past number of years. We now have the highest social housing build...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Get out of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Do not tell me to get out of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: You cannot talk about personalities in here.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: This Government and the previous Government built more social houses than had been built since the 1970s in the past four years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is a fact. Up to 48,000 social housing units were built. Nothing compares with that in the previous 15 or 20 years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy just keeps on shouting.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy keeps coming forward with facile and superficial analysis of the housing crisis.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: He sets himself up as a housing expert. He is nothing of the sort.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is why I would appreciate if he allowed other people to give their perspective. The only reason I raised my eyes was because I thought it was wrong of the Deputy to personalise the issue, demonise an individual who cannot defend himself in this House and make the assertions he has made about someone who has not been nominated to any position by Government. No decision has been taken,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: We have built close to-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is an elected representative and he has set himself up-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I did not say the Deputy was-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is not a construction housing expert. He never has been. He is-----