Results 61-80 of 304 for 5 million speaker:Micheál Martin

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...for home support workers, healthcare assistants and private and voluntary organisations. The total number of people waiting for home support had reduced from more than 9,000 at the start of 2020 to 5,744 by the end of March 2022. I note that despite capacity challenges, overall service delivery has increased by approximately 17% year-on-year. The additional funding for 5 million more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...is designed to facilitate better access to affordable and high-quality healthcare during the current cost-of-living crisis and further advance our ambition for universal health care for all. Specifically, €107 million is being allocated to ease cost-of-living pressures. As part of this, eligibility for GP access cards is being extended. By the end of 2022, it is intended the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...example or illustration and to endeavour to make it the norm in the narrative and presentation of how the housing situation stands. It is not that way at all, however. We need to be building 35,000 to 40,000 houses, in my view, at this stage. The population is going over 5 million, and is increasing. More than 70,000 people came into the country this year, with people returning home...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...and family finances. That is why we have the resources available to implement an unprecedented range of measures to help families and businesses in the middle of a dramatic international crisis. Some €45 billion was made available by Government, with in excess of €20 billion alone provided in direct support for workers and businesses. This was expensive, but necessary and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...model, for example. That analysis found the budget to be "strongly progressive". The winter cost-of-living measures alone will boost the net disposable income of the lowest income households by 5% compared with 0.7% for the highest income households. The core budget 2023 package will boost the net disposable income of the lowest income households by 5.8% compared with 2.3% for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...in a variety of ways. We have given direct humanitarian funding to Ukraine. We have provided funding to the Red Cross. In the context of international war crimes, we have allocated an extra €3 million to the International Criminal Court, which Deputy Haughey and others raised, to improve its capacity. There must be careful gathering of evidence of war crimes by the courts and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: The population is rising, and is more than 5 million. There are more Irish people coming back than Irish people leaving. The housing issue is not just Irish; it is European. It is an issue everywhere, basically.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...ground. We need to build far more houses than we are currently building. It is as simple as that. We are simply not building enough houses, irrespective of the type of house, for a population of 5 million people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...on accident and emergency departments and hospitals. Coming out of Covid-19, the pressures are enormous. Let me make another important point. Our population has increased from less than 3.5 million in the early 1990s to 5 million today. That is going to grow. The next census will be interesting. The population increase is having an impact on our services. I argue that, in recent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...our shared island policy and to help build consensus on a shared future. I would like to set out to the committee how we have taken this work forward so far and through this year. Through the revised national development plan, NDP, last year the Government set out an unprecedented commitment of €3.5 billion for all-island investment out to 2030, including an extended and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...very good meeting in respect of commitments North and South and, in particular, how the shared island unit can be of assistance in the development of the region. We announced at that meeting a €5 million allocation to local authorities North and South to prepare feasibility studies and bring proof of concept to many projects that potentially could become a pipeline of projects. 2...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...vacant local authority housing units for people on the social housing list in the nearly two years since the Government came in. That is a fact. There will be a further 2,000 this year. Some 35,000 houses were commenced between March 2021 and March 2022. That shows that the emphasis on housing is working. Covid-19 hit us in 2020 and 2021. We were shut down completely for nearly four...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...right from the beginning has been on procuring hotels and a whole variety of other accommodation. It is extraordinary that 16,000 people have been accommodated in seven or eight weeks and more than 25,000 people have come into the country. Some have been accommodated privately through families. Other NGOs have pledged houses through their informal networks. I met representatives of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...as a key part of our Shared Island initiative, including, most recently, on 2 March, when I and the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science announced over €37 million in awards to 62 projects by the Higher Education Authority, under the Government's major North-South research programme, resourced through the Shared Island fund. On 1 April, in a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...cases she has raised. It is not satisfactory that any person would have to go through that in regard to access to home care. The issue, as the Deputy knows, is not one of funding now because €150 million of additional funding was provided in 2021 to provide for 5 million more hours of home support, and that funding is being maintained in 2022. That obviously required...

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...additional sanctions. We have fully supported the sanctions packages agreed to date and we are actively engaged with partners in looking at what further measures can be taken. Ireland has contributed in full to the €1 billion military assistance package provided by the European Peace Facility, EPF, for Ukraine; Ireland's total share will be €22 million, which will go...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...and the remote working legislation. Suffice to say that the Government allocated approximately €1 billion in the most recent budget towards cost of living issues, from taxation relief of some €630 million to more than €500 million in respect of social protection measures. That was added to last week by a package of more than €500 million, which included...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: .... In the budget we allocated over €1 billion between tax and social protection measures to help to cushion people in respect of increases in terms of the cost of living, including a €5 increase in the weekly welfare rates; a €5 per week increase in the fuel allowance; a €3 per week increase in the living alone allowance; a €630 million package of...