Results 261-280 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: If it is included or extra, the Deputy should not make it central because, fundamentally, the impact of the Bill will be symbolic. About €600,000 worth of goods alone in the past six years-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is not going to listen. I am saying that the figure for goods over the past six years was €600,000. The Minister is examining that aspect of it in terms of services. The Deputy knows as well that the legal ground here is extremely narrow anyway. I read the entirety of the Attorney General's opinion about this and it did not change fundamentally from the opinions of...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I do not know. I do not deal with the operational practices of An Garda Síochána. I do not intervene in those. I was very surprised to see this. This is not Government policy but I will revert to the Deputy and ask for communication to be sent to him. I will talk to the Minister for justice about this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a fair presentation. I will talk to the Minister for justice, reflecting on what the Deputy said. There is an absence of consequences within that space before formally referring people to the juvenile justice system - which we are reluctant to do, to give young people a chance - and, on the other hand, ensuring people cannot just behave with abandon and no consequences. I take the...
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. The Government accepts there are genuine maintenance backlogs in terms of roads across the length and breadth of the country, particularly in south Kerry and Kerry more generally. We have allocated additional money to Kerry County Council for the regular maintenance of the network. In respect of the Killarney bypass, I tend to call...
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is the Cork-Kerry economic corridor. The Macroom and Baile Bhuirne bypass has been extraordinarily transformational environmentally, on public health grounds in terms of the air, on a road safety basis and also in terms of access and opening up Kerry to the economy of the wider hinterland right across the south west. Cork people are always anxious to benefit Kerry people as much as we...
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Minister for public expenditure, who is sitting beside me, has heard the plea that the boys of Barr na Sráide once again be able to walk newly paved streets and a regenerated town for the benefit of the entire country and all who visit.
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is very hard to keep up with the poetic qualities of Kerry Deputies. There are a lot of allocations going on at the moment, including €1.8 million to the N70 Creamery Cross to Kenneigh phase 2 paving scheme that is under way, the Blackwater Bridge to Sneem project, the Waterville to Ballybrack project and improvements to the N72 between Tralee and Dingle. A total of €13...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: We need about €20 billion in terms of investment, made up of private sector and public sector. Tell me how the Deputy proposes to get private sector investment into the apartment market.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: No. That is not true
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, all existing tenants will be capped at 2%.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: No-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: All existing tenants, when they stay in the tenancy, will be capped at 2%.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: In terms of any new builds or new apartment builds-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----after March 2026, when the new legislation comes in, they will be capped-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Please listen. The Deputy asked a question. All new apartments after March 2026 will be subject to a cap of the CPI, inflation. Then, six years beyond that, the landlord will be able to reset to market-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Let me finish because Deputy O'Callaghan has done nothing on supply. The combination of that facility for new builds, which we do not have yet, by the way, and there are no tenants in them-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and the CPI gives the basis upon which we can bring investment back into the market to get more apartments built because supply, ultimately, is the way to moderate rents.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are not going to do it by rent freezes or by this, that or the other that the Deputy's party has been proposing for the past two to three years, which will only conspire-----