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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: It involves a few officials and technocrats engaging with one another. The Minister needs to get real.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: He should talk to the residents on the ground.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: He is detached and disconnected.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Which resulted in the two bailouts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: They are not homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Fianna Fáil in government built far more houses, even during the recession, than the Taoiseach's Government has built subsequently.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The fast-track planning scheme, the strategic housing development scheme, has not delivered and is not delivering faster housing construction and it has de-democratised and undermined local input into our planning system. In an academic paper emanating from UCD and Queen's University, it is revealed that a group of developers essentially captured the then Minister, Deputy Coveney, and got...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I did. I said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has been in government since 2012, not just since he became Taoiseach, and he needs to take responsibility for that period too. The bottom line is that it has not resulted in faster construction. I have produced research. It is not my research but research from UCD, Queen's University and The Sunday Business Post, for which Killian Woods did much work to identify what got...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: It was.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I read the Minister's speech on the day and I have reread it. He rang the developers, all excited, and they came in. They gave him the plans and he took them lock, stock and barrel. That is what they tell the researchers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Quite a number of them told that to the researchers. The Minister accepted their proposals lock, stock and barrel. Some Fine Gael national politician who is very involved in housing told them that is the Fine Gael way, that Fine Gael believes in the market and that the market will solve the housing problem. It has not solved it and homelessness is far worse since the Taoiseach became...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should be producing the alternative evidence, not just telling us to consider the counterfactual. The Taoiseach should have that evidence. This was raised yesterday by Deputy Boyd Barrett. I accept that the Oireachtas acted in good faith but we were wrong and we should now go back on the decision and revert to the local authority model. Builders on the ground have told me...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has discussed security in the Border region with Prime Minister Johnson recently. [39896/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: What about the new children's hospital?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Will it involve a higher cost than that to which we were alerted last year?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach check that for me?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: What is the status of the broadband contract? Has it been signed? When will it be signed? We were led to believe some months ago that it would be signed in September, but it is now October. Are there state aid issues, as was recently reported, in terms of other providers claiming they can operate within the area that was out for tender? What is the position with the broadband contract?...