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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.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach just does not care about people who have problems.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: He was politically removed.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach if he had seen the RTE film "My homeless family". I was inundated with calls yesterday from people who were quite shocked by the revelations about the reality of homelessness in Ireland today, and particularly the plight of families in hotels. I do not know if the Taoiseach has seen the programme but it is important that he should do so. Yesterday, he...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: It illustrates in one story how this Government does not get what it is like for people to be in hotel rooms all over this city and across the country. There was a great opportunity to do something there with one, two and three-bedroom apartments at €100,000 each, rather than the €190,000 for modular homes. It is time the Government understood the urgency of this crisis and...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The programme was not about those complaints.