Results 341-360 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I take this issue very seriously. I have met with Traveller organisations and agree that it is a very serious situation. I will ask the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health to respond.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I accept the Deputy's point and a lot of progress has been made over the last number of years in respect of caretakers and school secretaries in terms of salaries and so forth. We are committed to ensuring that grant-funded school caretakers will be afforded the opportunity to avail of an agreement similar to that offered to grant-funded school secretaries. There is more work to be done on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to draw up a new action plan on insurance. We did a lot of good work in the last government in respect of insurance. Insurance companies have to come to the table as well and respond to the reforms that have occurred, which industry and others sought, in terms of awards and all of that. More crucially, in terms of flood areas, there are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I will have to look into the background. An Bord Pleanála is saying that the site is designated for a school. The docklands will have to have a fairly extensive campus for a primary, further, post primary and special education. The city council identified that as the site for the school but perhaps more engagement needs to occur with the owners of the site. I will discuss that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: Apologies. The Department of foreign affairs, along with the Department of Health and others, provides financial support for centres in London, in particular, where there is a service to engage with survivors of mother and baby homes, advising them, counselling them and giving them the wherewithal to apply for the schemes. We will engage with our UK counterparts in respect of trying to ring...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: My understanding is that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has determined to grant an aquaculture licence to Woodstown Bay Shellfish Limited and that the licensing process involves consultation with a wide range of scientific and technical advisers as well as various statutory consultees. I am informed that the legislation also provides for a period of public consultation,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is a process here. I do not interfere in every single process. I do not have executive authority to do that. I think the Deputy knows that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue, which is obviously of huge concern to those in County Louth, in Carlingford and Dundalk. The additional investment in Irish Water, or Uisce Éireann, is a key priority for the next national development plan for clean water but also for housing supply. We will be ring-fencing quite substantial capital allocations for housing supply but also, as...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: There are challenges. Nonetheless, earlier this year, the new Government allocated up to €700 million additionally over the Estimate for a whole variety of schemes to give them the green light. It allocated about €450 million for new projects and then approximately €300 for the tenant in situ scheme and for further acquisitions of housing and so on by local authorities....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: First, the Department makes its assessment in respect of new schools in terms of demographics, existing schools in the area that may be absorbing a lot at second level, and future trends. I am not in a position right here to question the work the Department has done on this. I will raise it with the Minister and indicate that the Deputy has raised this issue in Greystones on the Order of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I accept fully the frustrations as articulated by the Deputy in respect of this issue. As far back as September 2024, the Department of Transport sanctioned an additional 70 permanent positions for driver testers and this increases the total permanent posts sanctioned for testers to 200, which is a doubling of permanent posts since June 2022. A recruitment process in under way, with the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The reference to complicity in genocide is shocking and wrong. I genuinely mean that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I do not in any way underestimate the Deputy’s sincerity on this issue. I respect it. She has been very consistent on this, but it is wrong to say others in this House are complicit in genocide when they most certainly are not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The legislation last week would have done nothing to change that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Central Bank may be in a position over time to do something.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: There may be a route there, but that in itself is not going to change what is happening now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: Excuse me, the Deputy’s time is up.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I do not want to be facetious but under the triple lock arrangements at the moment, it would not be possible for the Naval Service to go overseas. In any event, I applaud the crew of the Madleen-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----because they acknowledged themselves that it was a symbolic gesture.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is not a back and forth.