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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am too. We use it for health centres but not for housing. We have a strategic investment fund but we are not building council houses at the level we should be.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The credit unions are offering money. We have gone to the Government with the issue of credit unions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Instead of getting a loan at a lousy rate from the main banks, into which they must make all their deposits, the credit unions are willing to invest that money in the provision of housing. However, those in government simply do not want to get up and get it sorted. Meanwhile, we have this thing going on about leadership. Those Ministers ought to show some leadership in their portfolios...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I believe the arts portfolio is in the wrong Department. It was a makey-up type of creation at the formation of the Government and the artistic community rightly rebelled against it. The one good dividend from it was that it led to a reconsideration by the Government as a whole on the arts front. While the Creative Ireland document is positive in itself, there is a lack of beef, a lack of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Cabinet Committee on Arts, Irish and the Gaelteacht. [8464/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The talks are over.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It has been three months.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It has moved on from there. They have had their negotiations.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: This is the old conversation from three months ago.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should check it out

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that central to the implementation of the programme for Government is that a Government be in place. Deputy Enda Kenny was elected as Taoiseach last May, which is not so long ago. He then put forward a number of Ministers to the House for approval, which is how it is done, and they were approved by the House. In the past week, quite a number of the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I appreciate that. If the Taoiseach has any information in this regard, I would appreciate it if he would relate it to the House.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach see the boys of Fairhill?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: We need focus. We need the Ministers to focus on their job at hand. All we are listening to is one Minister who wants to get out of Health because it is too hot in the kitchen.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: There is a need on an ongoing basis-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: If I could get order here, I would make the point that across the country - the Taoiseach should talk to his own Deputies - this is not getting better. This is getting worse. The Government does not have a supply solution to this on a scale that is required to deal with the emergency.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Government's failure to take up the European investment plan and its own failure to put adequate public investment into this ensures that the horrific story for many families will continue unless there is a real sense of emergency around the Cabinet table to tackle this issue.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: They were approved two years ago.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: They are not challenges. They are a daily crisis for thousands of families with nowhere to go who are coming to the advice centres and clinics of every Deputy across the country. They have been given a deadline of 15 March or 30 March. I include among their number mothers with three children who have nowhere to go. This is happening as we speak. Talking about 2021 is cold comfort for...