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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----give me the cases she has experienced I will follow through on them and get a report back to her.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: People can get a passport online very quickly. People have issues with expiry dates. My experience-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Murphy is interrupting all the time. The bottom line is that the service has improved dramatically over the past 12 months. It gave out a record number of passports again last year. If Deputy Murphy has cases I ask her please to bring them to my attention. I would like to find out about the case she is speaking about.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: Show them. It is the first I have heard of them, by the way.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: I do not think we are close to starvation in the country any time soon. I respectfully say regarding the European Union that we always want to try to reduce the regulatory burden on farmers and enterprise. The European Common Agricultural Policy has been the linchpin of farming in this country in terms of underpinning incomes and payments. Let us never forget this in respect of the value...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Department of agriculture and the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, are doing everything to support food production and the primary producers, which is important, and to make sure we open up new export markets for beef.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: There were 46,000 valid applications for ACRES. We decided because of the exceptional demand to expand it. This created pressures. It is a €1.5 billion flag scheme. It is a big scheme.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: I admire Deputy Stanton's optimism in respect of the fine weather coming. I hope he is right. Anois teacht an earraigh beidh an lá ag dul chun síneadh, 'S tar éis na Féile Bríde ardóidh mé mo sheol I accept that the flooding did significant damage on road structures in the areas affected. I will speak again to the Minister who is responsible to see...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: On the school front, we should pay tribute to our schools for the manner in which they have accommodated so many Ukrainian children-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----and integrated them into our system.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: First of all, I did not say the Deputy had and, second, I did not say he should-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: I did not. Go back over-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: Go back over the blacks. You want to create a drama and create false assertions that I said you should not raise it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: This is a new trope going around, that people have no right to raise these issues. I have seen it everywhere. I never said-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: I invite you to go back over the blacks, as we say, of this exchange. I challenge you to go back and find the sentence-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: No, I am sorry-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: Deputy, I did not interrupt you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: What I am trying to say, Deputy-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am saying the Deputy made a false assertion that I said-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: Will the Deputy let me reply, please?