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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is Sinn Féin would screw first-time buyers. It would destroy them. It would get rid of help-to-buy and the first home schemes, the grants and would take away any support and assistance that is currently there. What we are saying to first-time buyers is that the help-to-buy scheme will be there until 2029. They can plan with certainty, save with certainty and be in a...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: By investing a further €1.2 billion we are putting it up to Sinn Féin, which has said it will get rid of the Land Development Agency or transform it and change it. Waste more time is what Sinn Féin would do. We have built the foundations for housing delivery in this country, including the Land Development Agency, but Sinn Féin wants to go back to the drawing board in a...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----in terms of getting houses built.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: Of course, we do not need to look in the crystal ball when it comes to Sinn Féin's housing policy. All we have to do is look at its abject failing on housing in Northern Ireland where there is no action, no increase in home building and no expansion in social or affordable housing. Next year, we will see new records on home building in critical sectors in this country, and a further...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----which claim that nothing positive has ever happened in our country and that just demanding more of everything is the answer. Even during the pandemic, the addiction to destructive opposition showed itself repeatedly. Every measure we introduced to help workers and businesses was attacked as paltry and when we had to end emergency measures, we were attacked again. We saw another level...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: In response to a balanced, ambitious and progressive-----

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am clearly striking home.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I take the Deputy's interruptions as a compliment on the quality of my speech. In response to a balanced, ambitious and progressive budget, we have heard an incoherent barrage of attacks and no meaningful debate. The Opposition would like nothing better than to claim that they are facing some form of neo-Thatcherite Government. Of course, the reality is that we have been consistently...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: This is a budget for a modern country determined to protect its success and use its resources to permanently tackle key issues. It is a balanced, fair and progressive budget that significantly expands vital public services and supports. It is a budget that protects and promotes the economic success that generates the resources on which these public services and supports rely. Critically,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: On 19 July 2024 the International Court of Justice delivered an advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. In it advisory opinion, the Court concluded that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful, and that Israel is under an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Passport Service has issued over 870,000 passports to date this year. Virtually all complete passport applications are processed within or before advertised turnaround times with the majority of adult online renewal applications issuing within two working days. There are currently no backlogs. The target turnaround time for first time online applications is 20 working days. The current...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship. Foreign Birth Registration, by its nature, is a detailed and complex process, often involving...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: The integrity of the Irish passport is the foremost priority of the Passport Service. The Irish passport has a strong international reputation due to the strength of the security features within the passport book and the robust processes involved in its issuance. The Irish passport was recently ranked third in the Henley Global Passport Index as it provides our citizens with visa-free access...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service has issued passports to the applicants.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: All passport applications are subject to the provisions of the Passports Act, 2008 (the Act). The Act provides that a person must, among other things, be an Irish citizen before a passport can be issued to him or her. Entitlement to Irish citizenship is, in turn, subject to the terms of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, as amended. Prior to 29 November 2005, spouses of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I can confirm that officials in my Department and the relevant Irish Embassy are aware of this case and are providing consular assistance to the citizen and their family. I understand that a dedicated case officer has been assigned and that they remain in ongoing contact with the family at this very difficult time. I further understand that officials in the Irish Embassy have provided...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: We never kneecapped children anyway. Has Sinn Féin ever apologised?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: Has Sinn Féin ever apologised?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I do not deny the kneecapping that you guys did.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.