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Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am not interrupting. The three questions asked were about Northern Ireland, not Brexit.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Parliament is an inflexible sort of forum now and again or, at least, when I came in here first, that is the way it used to be.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met or spoken to Ms Arlene Foster and Ms Michelle O'Neill recently on restoring the Northern Executive. [37318/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The question was whether the Taoiseach had met or spoken to Ms Arlene Foster and Ms Michelle O'Neill recently. Will the Taoiseach give me the specific dates when he spoke to Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill last? We can all agree that, today, we are at a low point in terms of the Brexit process so far and the operation of the Good Friday Agreement. Let us be clear that what we have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: In the housing crisis vein, and accepting that it is a crisis, I put to the Taoiseach earlier the regulatory framework governing the submission by local authorities of housing schemes to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and the inexplicable delays in sanctioning such projects. If it is an emergency and a crisis, surely that framework should be changed. The...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Schemes are ready to go.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: What is going on is unacceptable, and I do not believe it can be defended.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Why?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Minister should ask himself the question why.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Minister does not have to do that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Who is in charge?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Minister knows why they did not.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: We have raised this in the budget talks. This is a simple thing the Minister could do.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: What are the local authorities there for?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: To second-guess the-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The tender was announced yesterday. Will the Taoiseach explain it? No one believes the announcements for the next five or ten years, given what happened with previous ministerial announcements. That is a fair point. No one can attach any credibility to what has been said will happen in the future, given that the announcements made in the past did not deliver.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is the Ceann Comhairle calling me?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: I apologise; I did not hear the Ceann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for that endorsement. The lack of housing and the level of homelessness are an appalling blight on our society and, without question, represent an emergency. It is an emergency that demands urgent, effective and targeted action. Too many families and children are homeless. Rents are far too high. Too many people are waiting far too long for council houses. Young...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach if he thought it was an emergency and that we were in a crisis. I also asked him to explain the absence of delivery across a range of schemes that his Government had announced in the past four years that had not been delivered. If we are in an urgent crisis, as we are, the simplest problem to tackle is the inexplicable delay in the approval of housing schemes submitted...