Results 941-960 of 49,960 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: You have some nerve.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Taoiseach, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: In terms of recruitment, everyone wants us to get more gardaí as quickly as we possibly can and to get them trained and out on the street in order to increase policing. That is the whole objective of people going into Templemore. On the precise arrangements involved, I will engage with the Minister for Justice and raise with him the issue the Deputy has raised.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will ask the Minister for Justice to-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: My honest view is that vetting is important but that it is overstated.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: What does vetting actually mean?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is quite limited in what it actually does.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: There are backlogs everywhere.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have not been interrupting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: There will be a relentless focus on this for the lifetime of this Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will come back on the situation on the CDNTs. That recruitment continues. On education, it should be acknowledged that there has been a huge increase in public expenditure, and rightly so, on special education. It now constitutes 25% of the overall education budget, or about €3 billion now. Money, however, does not mean a whole lot to people if they are waiting for school...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will start by acknowledging the work the Deputy did when he was the Minister responsible for this area in the last Government for close to five years. I hope he acknowledges the commitment of the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael parties, with the Green Party, to the issue of childcare during the last Government when it dealt substantially with pay and conditions and money was allocated to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I can come back.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: What does that mean?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Come on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: A few people tried that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Actually the State is involved in the apartment building area at huge cost and a genuine debate would ask whether there are better ways of doing it. I do not know what the Deputy means by turning the LDA into a genuine vehicle, as though it is not genuine now. However, when I indicated last week, as everyone outside agrees, that we need private sector investment-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Most economic people and experts in housing are saying it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy attacks people for mentioning it. She moves straight to tax breaks. She might benefit from looking at the history of her party on this. I quote: We are creating this process for bringing in private investment. I hope to launch a new scheme in relation to investment in social housing in the near future, a new process for bringing in investors. Can we guess who said that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----back in the day when AK47 was firing on all cylinders.