Results 521-540 of 46,414 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Smith knows that I said that time and again yet it is disappointing that she deliberately distorts the truth with her assertions. Anything we do, including the legislative proposals we will bring forward, will be absolutely within the framework of the UN Charter. That has always been our esprit de corps as a country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is a monstrous lie and assertion to suggest that removing the triple lock will facilitate, will be a factor in, or result in young Irish people fighting in wars. The European Union is not a colonial power. This exactly proves my point. The Deputy is denying past campaigns and she has just reiterated the entire campaign-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is not a colonial power. It has no colonies. It is not Russia. The real imperialism of today is Russia.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy just does pro forma. She will articulate a formulation in this Chamber.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have never seen the Deputy march on behalf of the people of Ukraine and she never will----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----because she has presented the Ukraine war and Russia's invasion as somehow a western European neocolonial project.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: She has always attempted to do that
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is a false dichotomy between the colonialism of the past and the sovereignty we have achieved as members of the Europe Union, which has always respected-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I will answer the question. As I have said, it will be completely within the UN Charter. We only want to be involved in peacekeeping missions. We will have to be involved in evacuating Irish citizens and we need to change the frame-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Do not give the Deputy that. Do not give the Deputy that about Afghanistan. What about the people in Afghanistan who were rescued when the Army rangers were participants? What about Sudan?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputies are so dismissive of the reality of what is happening in many parts of this world. We had to get Irish citizens out of Sudan and Afghanistan and that is going to increase. Unfortunately, there will be more war situations so we will have evacuation-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That means in terms of hospital organisation-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of primary care, community care and acute setting, it needs a more rigorous analysis than simply saying more numbers will change things and resolve the issue; not necessarily is the point I am making.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Absolutely I do not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do not doubt the Deputy's commitment to the housing issue, but he presented a narrative that is almost wholly negative, as if nothing was happening in housing or house building. He omitted to say that in quarter 4 last year, rents had not just stabilised but very modestly came down. He is looking at the annualised figures, which may indicate the increased supply of last year and the year...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----social homes were added to the social housing stock in quarter 4 2023. Last year also saw the highest level of new-build social homes since 1975: 8,100 homes, or 12,000 social homes delivered in total if leasing and acquisition and so forth are taken into account. There is a strong pipeline of 22,500 social homes. That is the way to deal with the rental issue. We simply have to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There is no impunity. That is a wrong assertion.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The law is being applied and we have legislated for tenancies of unlimited duration, restricted the level of upfront payments required of tenants and legislated to increase the notice-to-quit period for tenancies of three years' duration or less. The minimum notice a landlord must give a tenant of less than three years' duration has been increased from 28 days to three months. Changes to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: In terms of non-compliance, the RTB has enhanced powers of investigation and sanctioning, and additional resources to ensure-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----that the full protection against unlawful rents in RPZs can be enforced. As a result of investigations conducted by the RTB, 180 sanctions have been imposed on landlords for improper conduct and they have been published on the board's website, which the Deputy did not reference.