Results 51,201-51,220 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are not part of NATO.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: If you talk-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----to people from Lithuania and Latvia, they have very legitimate existential concerns given their countries' long histories with Russia and the manner in which Russia treated them. Time and time again, it invaded those countries and violated their integrity. If the Deputy was living in Lithuania, he might have a different perspective to the one he has now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 18 to 34, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on housing last met on Thursday 5 June and is due to meet again on Monday 21 July. The committee works to ensure a cross-Government approach to the implementation of our commitments in respect of housing policy. Housing supply has increased significantly over the past number of years, with almost...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Sheahan referred to the size of apartments and the change in the guidance and standardisation in terms of design and so on. That is not being done at the behest of developers. There is a well recognised and analysed viability gap in terms of the construction of apartments in cities and, indeed, across the country. It is well documented that there is a fundamental issue in terms of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: A lot more social homes are built now than there were historically. The building of social homes is at a 40-year record, which does not get recognised at all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Of those on the homeless lists, as I think that is what Deputy Tóibín was referring to, close to 50% are from the EU or the EEA. We have a growing population. The timelines as to when people come on to the emergency accommodation lists are a matter that needs to be examined in the context of the needs of people when they arrive in. The growing population has created new demands...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Is that in terms of-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Minister is pursuing that issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Potentially. We have to wait to see the details of what will come forward from the Minister.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ní aontaím leis an Teachta mar-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Admhaím go bhfuil brú. Gan amhras, tá brú ar dhaoine agus ar chosmhuintir na tíre maidir leis an gcostas maireachtála. Tá an-chuid déanta ag an Rialtas go dtí seo chun an brú sin a ísliú. An rud is tábhachtaí sna míonna atá le teacht ná cinneadh a dhéanamh infheistíocht a chur isteach in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are well-placed to deal with it because of the surpluses we have and so on. We have taken fundamental measures such as the free book scheme, which Sinn Féin never mentions for some reason. That was a game-changer in terms of the costs that people have going back to school.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We did that a number of years ago and the finality of it will be this September. Every school now has free school meals. These were things that, up to three years ago, were not on the agenda and Sinn Féin ignores that. We have improved the situation regarding carer's allowance. What we intend to do in the next budget is to mainstream provisions that will help people to deal with...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a positive but we have to provide for that as regards our water infrastructure, housing, energy infrastructure, public transport and roads. We are going to do that but there are limits to what any government can do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin is a party of Opposition with no limits on what it would spend. In terms of expenditure, it does not matter. It is just whatever turns up on any day, it will spend a billion or two billion euro on it. That is its philosophy and mindset.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, in Dáil Éireann, I challenged the Deputy's party to say whether it would support the EU-Canada free trade deal, which has enhanced Ireland's exports.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We were doing about €900 million in exports in 2016. We are now doing €4.1 billion, which is bread on the table of Irish working families. That is how you deal with cost of living, not being against trade deals of that importance and scale, which have real impact on the working lives of people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: In the forthcoming budget, this Government will respond to those most in need. We will test Sinn Féin. This morning, I heard Sinn Féin's spokesman talking about universal benefits for the high rollers. That is what its spokesman, Deputy Doherty, said this morning, that he wants universal energy credits for the high rollers. I will test you and your commitment and principles....