Results 181-200 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is the reality. If we forget all the noise, the sound and fury and go through it detail by detail, this is a well-balanced package. We are talking about all existing tenants staying at 2% as per the existing RPZs, which the Opposition wanted retained. They are being retained for existing tenants. We do need supply.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Surely Deputy Bacik agrees that we need more supply. We need more apartment building and what is needed for that? Certainty. We need policy certainty for renters and investors. That is what this package provides, because we do need private sector investment in apartment building. The final point I would make is that this is but one of a suite of measures that have been taken and are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Government wants to increase the supply of houses to get to 50,000 per annum.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The proposals of Sinn Féin, via rent bans or whatever the Deputy has said, would actually reduce supply. The Deputies opposite have no ideas and no solutions. That is their problem and the people saw that last time out. They do not have solutions because they do not accept there is any role for the market at all.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a fundamental problem in terms of their presentation on this issue.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I stress again that existing tenants' rent will be capped at 2%-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and the rent of new tenants in new supply will be capped at the CPI level. The caps are retained. The framework-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputy but this is standard practice for Sinn Féin-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----because Sinn Féin is interested in just throwing untruth after untruth across the House and is not prepared to listen to the truth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: You are not the leader yet, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: You are not the leader.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputies opposite are into performance; they are not into substance.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: First, I send our deepest sympathies to all affected by the horrific and shocking shooting and killing in Austria. Our thoughts are with all those who have been killed, their families and relatives. The reforms announced today of the rental sector will strengthen the rights of new and existing tenants in Irish society. That is a central part of the reform. Those reforms have been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Every one of you said it and we are not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are not. What we are doing is extending it. It is becoming a national framework now in terms of rent pressure zones.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The evidence has pointed to those areas outside rent pressure zones being under pressure because of that very fact so we are correcting that in terms of making it a national protective framework. Existing tenants' rents are capped at 2%.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows that but she says the opposite here. She just tells untruths with abandon-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: With abandon---
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Existing tenants' rents will be capped at 2%.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is the reality of it and for those with four tenancies and above, there is an effective end to no-fault eviction.