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Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am always courteous to Deputy Wallace. He tolerates my excesses.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: There is no logic to it.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Government changed the scheme.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I do but I do not like meeting families who have spent Christmas in hotels. I just do not like meeting them and I have met them. Of course I want to recognise it and get them out of hotels.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does not get it.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: We told the Taoiseach that would happen.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The reason given by the Taoiseach is not the reason. He allowed this crisis to escalate. He allowed it to become the full-blown national emergency it is. I gave him the figures. Eight families on average per month were becoming homeless in 2012, 40 per month in 2014 and 75 per month in 2015. A total of 90 families became homeless during one month last year. This is nearly three families...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: In December 2014, Bob Jordan from Threshold said, "...keeping Rent Supplement limits below market rents has done nothing to dampen rent increases. All it has done is drive vulnerable families into homelessness." These are people at the coalface who told the Government years ago that the rent supplement changes in 2012 introduced by the Tánaiste were wrong.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: She got it wrong. She saved €55 million by doing it, the worst €55 million ever saved in any Estimate because it drove vulnerable families out of the rental market and into homelessness.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is why we have the escalating spectacle of families with children in commercial hotels with all the difficulties and challenges this entails. I am not the only person saying this. Every organisation at the coalface has repeatedly asked the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste to change their position on rent supplement and they have not done so. I also asked the Taoiseach, who might come...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach now change tack on NAMA and instruct it that a minimum of 10,000 houses out of the 20,000 houses it is to build should be social housing of one form or another because it has a social remit?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The appalling human impact of the homelessness crisis was revealed on RTE last night in "My Homeless Family". The unacceptable impact on families and children in particular was laid bare in this city and across the country. The programme was made possible by the bravery and dignity of the three families involved. There was Erica and her daughter; Sandra and Brendan; and Melissa. With...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Comóradh 1916 (19 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: 485. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the State's preparations for the 1916 commemoration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2015/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (14 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: 181. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations and the number of gardaí in each in County Kerry on 1 January 2011 and on 1 January 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1689/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (14 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: 182. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Síochána stations and the number of gardaí in each, in County Tipperary on 1 January 2011 and on 1 January 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1690/16]

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is time to put in place an enduring infrastructure that will stand strong in the face of the challenge of climate change. Climate change is a very real issue and one this Government, for domestic electoral reasons, put on the backburner. The EU Commissioner, Phil Hogan, made sure of that when he was Minister, for his own electoral considerations and for those of Fine Gael. Behind the...

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: People are quite tolerant when big schemes do not arrive. If €200,000 had been spent in Portumna, it would have done an awful lot to assist with the channel or canal that comes in from the river. Relatively small amounts of money could be provided for the reinforcement of ditches and the clearing of drains, etc. If a comprehensive and proactive system of prevention had been...

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: There was no protocol.

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Without the civil contractors and farmers who went into the town of Bandon, the place would have been ten times worse.

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Some of the contractors were told "you should not be here because you have no insurance".