Results 341-360 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have no difficulty in taking responsibility. We are taking decisions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is criticising decisions. She said, "We are in opposition". The Labour Party could have been in government-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----but it did not have the courage.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: You and many in your party did not have the courage. Why? It was because-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Look, it hurts. I have the floor.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I accept what I just said hurts the party. I note Deputy Kelly is not here. To be fair to him, he wanted to go into government, but the others did not-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and the reason they did not want to go into government was that they are afraid of the people alongside them.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: You were afraid to jump in case they would not jump and vice versa.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have no difficulty in taking responsibility, but maybe it is time Deputy Bacik took some responsibility and fleshed out her details.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: But they have all joined forces now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will first say to the Deputy that since the Government came in a number of months ago in January, we have approved an extra €700 million in respect of projects and programmes for social and affordable housing. We passed the national planning framework, which will enable local authorities to zone far more land for house construction. We brought forward proposals on legislation to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Very significantly protecting protections for renters which Deputy Bacik is clearly ignoring in her commentary. While at the same time, in terms of new investment and new units, which we do need, there has to be a clear policy certainty and stability in the market so that people can invest. After 2026, linking new units to the consumer price index, CPI, and a right to reset after six years...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: She will not support anything that in any way she perceives to be injurious to her electoral base or might cost her a few votes. That is the prism through which she is looking at our housing crisis. I recall that she is the person that said she will build 100,000 per year-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----through some new-fangled national State building agency, the details of which are few and far between. The Deputy has not produced solutions. We have built more than 30,000 per annum over the past number of years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: In the first quarter of this year, housing completions were close to 6,000. The actual number was 5,938. That is the highest since the record in 2011, bar the spike after Covid-19. There is a lot of delivery happening. The land market activity on residential zoned areas is up. There is a great deal of activity there. We have to keep going and get the job done.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: It begs the question, though, as to how Deputy McDonald could, to date, oppose up to 1,700 housing units in her own area, in Clonliffe College, and likewise in Cabra. If the Deputy is saying it is an emergency across the country, how come it is not an emergency in her constituency or in the areas where her party objects?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: She simply cannot have it both ways. This duplicitous approach to housing has to end. What we need from Deputy McDonald are concrete solutions on how we increase supply so that we can get a situation where we can build 50,000 units a year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy's party's policies-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am not talking about Deputy McDonald personally; I am talking about the Sinn Féin Party.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Sinn Féin Party's policy objective over time is to reduce the size of the private rental sector.