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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is just clichéd bingo announcements. That is all they are at. I heard the Deputy this morning.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: It was just bluff and bluster. The bottom line here is-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have answered the questions. If we look at what Threshold said, for example, it said it is very clear that "the changes announced today will - with well-designed legislation and effective enforcement – this will be a huge jump forward in providing long-term stability to renters." It welcomed the national extension of rent pressure zones. We will be bringing in legislation to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: Threshold is saying that for the first time, private renters could have secure occupancy of their home for a set period, something that does not currently exist, and Deputies opposite are attacking all of this. They are making absolutely false assertions, because all they are interested in is the politics of this and how they can exploit the housing situation to get electoral or political...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: They have no solutions and no proposals, in terms of the supply side of this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Housing Agency provides the platform for the review that the Government has acted on. We have acted. We have taken decisions. I am not hanging around here. I am not interested in Deputy McDonald's bluff and bluster because it will contribute nothing to housing supply in this country. That is the bottom line. I did listen to Deputy McDonald this morning and she said to me it was back...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: What does Deputy McDonald say? She says Government wants to take the shackles off the big funds, which is a great sound bite. She says she has asked the Government to stop screwing things up. When asked about Sinn Féin's alternative plan, it is to enable the builders to just get out and build. What a fantastic plan. What a really detailed plan that is really going to get things...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: She then finishes by saying, here is my solution. She says, "For the love of God, get the builders building. That is my plan."

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy very much for raising this issue. It is a very serious and shocking situation. The revelations on "RTÉ Investigates", in particular, must have been deeply traumatic for families with loved ones in nursing homes generally but particularly in the two nursing homes that were covered by "RTÉ Investigates". It is particularly concerning that the regulatory authority...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I dtús báire, ní aontaím leis an Teachta. Níl aon bhaint ag an méid atá ráite aici leis an bhfírinne. Níl suim ag an Teachta leis an bhfírinne, áfach. Is é atá i gceist ag an Teachta, agus Páirtí Shinn Féin, ná a bheith i gcoinne gach aon chinneadh a dhéanann an Rialtas, gan aon pholasaí...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Government has established 12 Cabinet Committees as set out in the table below. The membership of each Committee is also listed. Cabinet Committees are established by the Government to assist it in carrying out the responsibilities of Government in the areas indicated by their titles. They meet as appropriate according to their work schedules. Other Ministers or Ministers of State may...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Security (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Programme for Government 2025, Securing Ireland's Future, sets out a number of commitments relating to national security and defence, and work to give effect to these is well underway. The establishment of a Ministerial Council on National Security is a key commitment in the Programme for Government and it will function to enhance central co-ordination on strategic national security...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: In line with its obligations under Circular 25/2016, the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO), the only body under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach, has a dedicated email address for Oireachtas members: Oireachtas@nesdo.ie. NESDO maybe contacted by telephone at 01-8146300. Oireachtas members wishing to contact the Department of the Taoiseach can use the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 and 5 together. The Department of the Taoiseach has no capital expenditure subhead in its Estimates and no capital expenditure has been incurred by the Department or the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO), the only body under the aegis of the Department, in the years 2022, 2023 or 2024.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: No retired officials have been re-engaged by the Department of the Taoiseach on a consultancy basis in the past four years or to date in 2025.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputies for raising a variety of issues. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked about the sports front. There has been a range of investments. Casement Park is a significant one, with a €50 million allocation. There is also the sports club electric vehicle, EV, charging scheme, which got into difficulty in terms of procurement and the roll-out of public EV charging points in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: But they do not see it as a hard border.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: We have been criticised on the opposite side, on the other side of the scale. There have to be rules around migration. I think the Deputy's view is that there should not be, which is fair enough and he is entitled to have a view, but I think his view is that there should not be any rules at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is not sustainable. I thought he was talking about asylum seekers coming North and South.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: Anybody who is legally resident in Northern Ireland can travel to the South.