Results 9,601-9,620 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- 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...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: The fundamental point that an indefinite eviction ban would make the situation worse and is not a viable policy is one shared by the Deputy and his party. Sinn Féin does not propose an indefinite eviction ban. It proposes exactly the same as the Government decided this week, only it delays it for a number of months. It has changed the delay time. It was 31 December, then it was 31...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: We can leave that, but it is a fact.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: As Deputy Ó Broin said on radio last week, Sinn Féin wants public housing on public lands only and therefore it was against affordable housing and public lands, cost-rental and so on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: That is exactly the position.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: If I could, I want to move on, because it is a standard practice now in the House-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: There is a standard practice in the House, which I have witnessed over the last three or four days when Government Members get up to speak, having allowed the Opposition Members to speak without any interruption-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----that Government spokespeople are heckled all the time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Here we go again.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: As I said, considerable progress has been made on housing with 30,000 new homes completed last year, a 45% increase on 2021. We saw the highest number of first-time buyer purchases in the month of January since the Central Statistics Office, CSO, data series began in 2010. Nearly 20,000 social homes have been added to the social housing stock since this Government came in. That was up to...