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Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----six months before the actual appointment is up and that the Government has approved this.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: That raises all kinds of questions which have legislative implications as well because the resumption of Second Stage of the Public Sector Standards Bill is on today's Order Paper.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I ask Taoiseach if he might defer taking that Second Stage until we have the full the implications of this move by the Minister and the Government in regard to this appointment. With regard to the Garda Síochána (Amendment) Act 2014 and the GSOC issue, yesterday the Taoiseach was very quick to dismiss the comments that were attributed to him in yesterday's newspapers in respect...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: When was that provided for?

Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I did not ask about NewERA.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: To whom?

Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: No, he does not.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Under what Act is that provided for?

Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I do not know the individual----

Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Under what legislation does that come?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Rent allowances for vulnerable families are cut allowing them to fall into poverty. The Taoiseach will not direct NAMA to build 10,000 houses.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach could direct NAMA to build 10,000 houses.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: In the budget, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, declared that NAMA would build 20,000 houses.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Now the Taoiseach and his colleagues are saying only 10% of them should be social houses.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am simply saying-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: ----- the urgency of the problem demands an urgent and effective response, not the failure we have had, with local authorities building nothing in recent years. No social housing has been built in recent years.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach to direct NAMA that 10,000 be social houses.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I told the Taoiseach what to do.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Some 10,000 of those houses should be sold to NAMA to be developed in the next five years.