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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That is not what it says in the report. One of its recommendations is: Regulate market rents fairly and effectively by reforming the current system of rent regulation and establishing a system of ‘Reference Rents’. This reform should be informed by evidence-based reviews on the impact of regulated market rents on rented housing supply, accessibility and affordability. Such...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: My reference was to a specific recommendation in section 6.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Yes, and I have gone through the recommendations for the rental sector. I do not see any reference to a ban on no-fault evictions. It seems that the commission wants a significant reform of the existing rental market regulation. That will take significant work. Meanwhile, the Government is absolutely committed to the tenantin situscheme, as we have demonstrated by buying houses where...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I did say earlier, as the Deputy himself referenced, there is a very significant recruitment campaign, which so far as resulted in 165 new job offers for CDNT teams.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are 700 vacant posts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That is so far, and the HSE is going to repeat the recruitment campaign with a view to offering more positions in this area, to ultimately properly resource the CDNT teams. I also believe we need to look at it from a human resources management perspective to make sure that people recruited into the CDNT teams have an environment that is conducive, which incentivises them and makes for a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I do not know whether the Tánaiste wants to answer this question. It is about whether he does the shopping in his house. Does he go to the grocery and fill his trolley with all the food that is required for the week? If he does, has he noticed how steeply the prices have risen for ordinary grocery products in the last year? They say there is no inflation in 2024, or at least that it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I cannot square that circle. I am against capitalism. I am an anti-capitalist. I am for a more egalitarian system. The Tánaiste is pro-capitalist. He eulogises it all the time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy Smith is way over time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Can he please square that circle for me?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: First, I do not eulogise capitalism. The Deputy says she is for a different system but she probably should be a bit more transparent. She believes in a 100% socialist economic model, which I do not think would have created the full employment that we have in this country today. I point to her approach to multinational companies. Yesterday, she said we should boycott Hewlett-Packard, and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: We need to do more.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I deliberately focused on the cost of groceries because my argument is that food inflation is crippling people. The Barnardos report shows that. Social Justice Ireland has shown that more than 500,000 people in this country are living in poverty, of which 180,000 are children. I am asking the Tánaiste what he is going to do about the rising cost of food. He can go shopping in some...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy. I call on the Tánaiste to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: That is the sort of country we live in – one where parents let their kids go to bed hungry – and the sort of country that they face. What is the Tánaiste going to do about it to address that problem?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I call on the Tánaiste to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: First, the Deputy is not the only one who goes to the various shops she mentions. She should not create the impression that she is the only person in this House who goes to Tesco. I have been in Tesco. I have been in SuperValu.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: He has been in Tesco.