Results 9,941-9,960 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: We have already decided, and the Deputy knows this too, on immediate measures for more than 3,000 additional homes to be provided through 1,500 acquisitions-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----in the context of the in situdirective the Minister is issuing to the local authorities. Basically, where a person is in difficulty or under threat of eviction the local authorities can purchase that house.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Some 1,500 has been provided for. A further 1,000 houses or apartments are to be leased, in addition to those already provided for in Housing for All as a result of Cabinet decisions last Tuesday. With the capital advance leasing facility, CALF, funding adjustments another 1,000 units are to be provided, again facilitating those who could be in difficulty. There is also the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy asked the question and I am giving the answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy asked the question and I am giving the answer. In the real world the Deputy said it was dealt with-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: That was dealt with. The Deputy said it was dealt with.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: The opportunity for a first refusal will be given to the tenant and then to an approved housing body. I believe this is a very important initiative in terms of enabling people to have alternatives to being homeless. Plus, there is the transition to a cost-rental option also.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: First, I congratulate the Deputy on her elevation as leader of the Social Democrats. I did not get the opportunity to do so in the House to date, and I wish her the very best in that regard. Fianna Fáil values were reflected when we decided to form the Government and take on the housing portfolio, notwithstanding the challenges that had built up over the years, and to make a real...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: That is not fair and it does not add up. I have made housing the priority of this Government and, along with my colleagues in government, the three parties have said that the three key priorities are housing, health reform, and planning change. Look at the variety of schemes that we have introduced on housing. We have the all new Croí Cónaithe scheme. We introduced the Land...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: The advice is very strong from those with a degree of experience of and expertise in the housing market that if we extend the ban, it would damage and undermine the prospects of people getting homes into the future.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: It was this Government that introduced the eviction ban.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: This Government introduced an eviction ban for the first time in history of the State. Everybody in this House said that it should be temporary to one degree or another. There is terrible hypocrisy in this debate. Sinn Féin said that we should lift it at Christmas time, a couple of days after Christmas Day. That is the stated position of Sinn Féin. How dishonest is that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Go bunúsach, is é atá i gceist ag páirtí an Teachta, Sinn Féin, ná a bheith ar gach taobh den scéal seo. Is é Tadhg an Dá Thaobh an teideal is oiriúnaí dá pháirtí ó thaobh chúrsaí tithíochta de. Labhraíonn an Teachta gach aon lá faoin ngéarchéim ina bhfuilimid. Cad a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----what did Deputy Ó Broin say?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Where are they going to go next Christmas? What did Deputy Ó Broin say yesterday on "Morning Ireland"? What did the Deputy say in a Private Members' motion debate only recently? What did he say? He said we should end it at the end of the year, in December.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: Where is the honesty in that? Is the Deputy seriously suggesting that Sinn Féin would have allowed the rent ban to be lifted in December, days after Christmas Day? That is the kind of dishonesty-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----that I find reprehensible in terms of debating the housing crisis, because it is a crisis. Why did we decide to lift the ban?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: We do not want to make the situation worse. The Deputy spat out that the Government is interested in the landlords. I heard Deputy Ó Broin on "The Pat Kenny Show" this morning saying he talks to landlords all the time. It is the Tadhg an Dá Thaobh syndrome. The Deputy has been in here demonising landlords for the last three or four years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: He wants them out of the market, but then-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----up comes Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson saying he is a very reasonable man, he will talk to landlords and he is even talking to developers. Deputy Doherty will come in and say we are all developer-led and corporate investment-led. The hypocrisy of it spews out of what he is saying-----