Results 50,601-50,620 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Go on out of that. Are you the leader of the Social Democrats now?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy opposite has made assertions in his Leaders' Question and I am quite entitled to respond to them. The bottom line here is supply. There is nothing coming from him on supply. The Housing Commission recommended reform of the RPZ scheme. The Social Democrats welcomed the Housing Commission report at the time and attacked Government for the failure to respond to it. I remember it...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----because of course we have not got rid of RPZs. If anything, as Threshold has stated, we have significantly increased protection for renters while at the same time, in a balanced measure, we have created policy certainty for investment because we desperately needed more supply in the rental market. We clearly do if we are to get to 50,000 per annum. That is the piece the Deputy does...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----bar an SSIA-type investment scheme which would take a couple of years before you had the requisite funds to invest in capital in housing. The State is already investing capital in housing to the tune of €7 billion plus. I put the question yesterday.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: We need about €20 billion in terms of investment, made up of private sector and public sector. Tell me how the Deputy proposes to get private sector investment into the apartment market.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: No. That is not true
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, all existing tenants will be capped at 2%.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: No-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: All existing tenants, when they stay in the tenancy, will be capped at 2%.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: In terms of any new builds or new apartment builds-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----after March 2026, when the new legislation comes in, they will be capped-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Please listen. The Deputy asked a question. All new apartments after March 2026 will be subject to a cap of the CPI, inflation. Then, six years beyond that, the landlord will be able to reset to market-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Let me finish because Deputy O'Callaghan has done nothing on supply. The combination of that facility for new builds, which we do not have yet, by the way, and there are no tenants in them-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and the CPI gives the basis upon which we can bring investment back into the market to get more apartments built because supply, ultimately, is the way to moderate rents.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are not going to do it by rent freezes or by this, that or the other that the Deputy's party has been proposing for the past two to three years, which will only conspire-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----to reduce and suppress supply and allow rents to go up even higher.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Could the Deputy repeat those figures, please?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising what is a very real issue for many people in society, in terms of increased antisocial behaviour. We need both approaches. We need consistently and constantly to deal with the source and the evolution of this, including in school programmes. A lot is being done in schools actually. I visit schools a lot. I was in one recently where there was tremendous...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The line between community engagement and moving into the youth juvenile space is a difficult enough one to crack.