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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I do not trade insults with anybody. I have not traded insults with Deputy Connolly in particular. I have responded to her courteously and with respect. I have to put this on the record. Very often comments are made as if we trade all of the insults. We do not. I accept what Deputy Connolly has just said. She has made the very interesting point that no one in the House has called for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Other parties originally said we should do it until Christmas week. Then they said until the end of January, and now there is a new iteration. In addition, I made the point earlier that I believe in building social housing. I am back in government two and a half years and 20,000 social homes have been added to the social housing stock since the Government was formed. I do not believe in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I thank Deputy Collins for raising this issue. I am not aware of the background or detail of this individual case and the O'Donovan family. As Deputy Collins has said, they have been a long-standing business family in Clonakilty down through the years, providing a very good service to the people of Clonakilty and surrounding hinterlands. I am at a difficulty in terms of responding in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: That is a fair point. I am mindful of the report’s conclusions about the resistance. The Chief of Staff has committed to change and reform. We will quickly develop legislation to appoint an independent external complaints process. That has to happen. Interim steps will be taken to facilitate complaints directly to the Ombudsman, which can happen now and does not have to wait for a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: We will amend the Defence Act 1954 to provide a legislative basis for allegations of any type of sexual assault in the Defence Forces to be referred to An Garda Síochána. We will also set up a non-statutory inquiry into the practice and process of medical boarding and in respect of issues pertaining to suicide. I envisage taking expert bodies in to assess that issue in a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: The Government has provided a rationale for the decision from the outset. I gave it earlier this morning. It is that an indefinite eviction ban would make the situation far worse and create a greater exodus of properties from the rental market, whereas we need more properties coming into the market. We need to create a framework whereby more people come into the market who are willing to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin has had its impact too in terms of the consistent demonisation of that sector for a long time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin proposed to do the very same thing in Christmas week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Yes, Sinn Féin did.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: It did the very same thing in Christmas week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, I think Sinn Féin's tolerance of free debate has always been one that has been questioned over the years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin’s army of trolls may browbeat-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I think I have enough said, a Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I have enough said. There is no point.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: Could I just make the point that I appreciate the challenge you have, a Cheann Comhairle?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I have endeavoured to reply. I have been shouted down repeatedly. That is a tactic. I will allow other Members to come in now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I have. The Deputies do not want to listen.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: The Deputies do not want to listen. It is a deliberate tactic.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: In the first instance, I thank the Deputy for raising the question. I commend the courage of those women and indeed men, who have shared their experience and have come forward through Women of Honour and Men and Women of Honour, and also current serving members of the Defence Forces who are not members of those specific groups, who have also been very candid and frank in sharing their...