Results 401-420 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am answering the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: If the Deputy reads the Housing Agency report - and I invite her to do so in its entirety - and looks at the ESRI analysis of the rental market, in reviewing both the domestic and international literature and so on, she will see there has been a negative impact, particularly in 2021, on measures we took on supply into the residential market. That is in the report. There must be a balance....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----than had been the case, on top of protections which we brought in over the past number of years. Over the past number of years stronger and stronger protections have been brought in for tenants and renters. That will continue under this measure and will be even stronger again in return-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: There are two things. First, Fianna Fáil has been in government for five years, not ten. That is a fact. Second, Deputy Bacik said people were briefing at the end of February. They were not briefing. What happened was that I went public and said there would be reform and that there would have to be change. I made a general statement saying that we would have to attract private...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputy. He does not own the place. He should have the decency to allow an exchange between me and the Labour Party leader. He has not assumed the status of leader yet and may not for a long time to come.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The fundamental point is that as a result of these packages, we have a national framework of protection. Existing tenants will keep the RPZ at 2%. If we get new builds, which is what we want to do, new tenancies will be capped at the CPI. The protections from no-fault evictions by landlords with four tenancies or more are very significant, and there are other protections and there will be...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is the reality. If we forget all the noise, the sound and fury and go through it detail by detail, this is a well-balanced package. We are talking about all existing tenants staying at 2% as per the existing RPZs, which the Opposition wanted retained. They are being retained for existing tenants. We do need supply.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Surely Deputy Bacik agrees that we need more supply. We need more apartment building and what is needed for that? Certainty. We need policy certainty for renters and investors. That is what this package provides, because we do need private sector investment in apartment building. The final point I would make is that this is but one of a suite of measures that have been taken and are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Government wants to increase the supply of houses to get to 50,000 per annum.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The proposals of Sinn Féin, via rent bans or whatever the Deputy has said, would actually reduce supply. The Deputies opposite have no ideas and no solutions. That is their problem and the people saw that last time out. They do not have solutions because they do not accept there is any role for the market at all.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a fundamental problem in terms of their presentation on this issue.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I stress again that existing tenants' rent will be capped at 2%-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and the rent of new tenants in new supply will be capped at the CPI level. The caps are retained. The framework-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputy but this is standard practice for Sinn Féin-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----because Sinn Féin is interested in just throwing untruth after untruth across the House and is not prepared to listen to the truth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: You are not the leader yet, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: You are not the leader.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputies opposite are into performance; they are not into substance.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: First, I send our deepest sympathies to all affected by the horrific and shocking shooting and killing in Austria. Our thoughts are with all those who have been killed, their families and relatives. The reforms announced today of the rental sector will strengthen the rights of new and existing tenants in Irish society. That is a central part of the reform. Those reforms have been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Every one of you said it and we are not.