Results 50,581-50,600 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Threshold is saying that for the first time, private renters could have secure occupancy of their home for a set period, something that does not currently exist, and Deputies opposite are attacking all of this. They are making absolutely false assertions, because all they are interested in is the politics of this and how they can exploit the housing situation to get electoral or political...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: They have no solutions and no proposals, in terms of the supply side of this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Housing Agency provides the platform for the review that the Government has acted on. We have acted. We have taken decisions. I am not hanging around here. I am not interested in Deputy McDonald's bluff and bluster because it will contribute nothing to housing supply in this country. That is the bottom line. I did listen to Deputy McDonald this morning and she said to me it was back...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: What does Deputy McDonald say? She says Government wants to take the shackles off the big funds, which is a great sound bite. She says she has asked the Government to stop screwing things up. When asked about Sinn Féin's alternative plan, it is to enable the builders to just get out and build. What a fantastic plan. What a really detailed plan that is really going to get things...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: She then finishes by saying, here is my solution. She says, "For the love of God, get the builders building. That is my plan."
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy very much for raising this issue. It is a very serious and shocking situation. The revelations on "RTÉ Investigates", in particular, must have been deeply traumatic for families with loved ones in nursing homes generally but particularly in the two nursing homes that were covered by "RTÉ Investigates". It is particularly concerning that the regulatory authority...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Yes, the Government has made that clear. We will be doing that. It is in the programme for Government. There is a forthcoming national policy on adult safeguarding for the health and social care sector that will set out how existing protections will be strengthened. That will be brought to Government shortly-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and that will commit to the development of adult safeguarding legislation for the sector. We have included the health (adult safeguarding) Bill in our current legislative programme to facilitate this. On a more broader sense, we are looking at a combination. I am trying to be realistic here and respond meaningfully to what the Deputy has articulated. I do not disagree with a lot of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: No, I do not. Just because you use what I would call exaggerated language does not make it true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I repeat that the bottom line is that all existing tenants will not have their rents increased beyond 2%. No attempts by the Deputy to sow confusion will change that reality. The more fundamental point in his presentation is that he and his party do not believe in a role for the market.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I listened to Deputy Hearne, his party spokesperson, say this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Hearne does not believe in a role for the market. He said this. That is his position.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: He said it plenty of times.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is the bottom line.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: He has undermined-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, I did not interrupt once.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: What is intriguing is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: You have attacked and condemned institutional funds-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ah come on. I know your-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ah you can. Sure you make them up every day for God's sake.