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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: I do not know whether the Tánaiste wants to answer this question. It is about whether he does the shopping in his house. Does he go to the grocery and fill his trolley with all the food that is required for the week? If he does, has he noticed how steeply the prices have risen for ordinary grocery products in the last year? They say there is no inflation in 2024, or at least that it...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: I cannot square that circle. I am against capitalism. I am an anti-capitalist. I am for a more egalitarian system. The Tánaiste is pro-capitalist. He eulogises it all the time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy Smith is way over time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: Can he please square that circle for me?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, I do not eulogise capitalism. The Deputy says she is for a different system but she probably should be a bit more transparent. She believes in a 100% socialist economic model, which I do not think would have created the full employment that we have in this country today. I point to her approach to multinational companies. Yesterday, she said we should boycott Hewlett-Packard, and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Tánaiste.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: We need to do more.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: I deliberately focused on the cost of groceries because my argument is that food inflation is crippling people. The Barnardos report shows that. Social Justice Ireland has shown that more than 500,000 people in this country are living in poverty, of which 180,000 are children. I am asking the Tánaiste what he is going to do about the rising cost of food. He can go shopping in some...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy. I call on the Tánaiste to respond.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: That is the sort of country we live in – one where parents let their kids go to bed hungry – and the sort of country that they face. What is the Tánaiste going to do about it to address that problem?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I call on the Tánaiste to respond.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, the Deputy is not the only one who goes to the various shops she mentions. She should not create the impression that she is the only person in this House who goes to Tesco. I have been in Tesco. I have been in SuperValu.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: He has been in Tesco.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: I do not care where the Tánaiste was.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, the Deputy made a snide comment. She does not have a monopoly on these things. That is the only point I make. I go to a local market. I mentioned local markets because I thought she would be agreeable that we should look after local producers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy raised an issue on the ventilation grilles, if he remembers, and claimed that tens of millions of euro would be required. It subsequently turned out not to be the case. The point I would make to the Deputy is that inadvertently, whether it is the intention or not-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: Delays will mean it is more costly-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Please, allow the Tánaiste to speak without interruption.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----Sinn Féin is a pawn now of where the contractor, in my view, wants this to go.