Results 981-1,000 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy asserted that they committed offences, which they would strenuously deny and the context would be strenuously denied. I have to say that. Fiosrú is there to follow that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate that. On the operational issues, those are matters for the Garda Commissioner. I am not in a position to intervene in the operational organisation of An Garda Síochána. The issues have been there for some time. The Minister is in a very difficult position if the Garda Commissioner has not been invited to the conference as well. His predecessor took the same...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Artificial Intelligence (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank all the Deputies for contributing to this debate. It is important. The debate illustrates the importance of the Oireachtas committee on AI that will be established. I look forward to further detailed, sensible and balanced consideration of the issue. We can already witness a divide that is too extreme. There are those who see AI as totally negative, others who see positives in it...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 21 to 28, inclusive, together. A Policing Service for our Future is the Government's plan to implement the report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. The implementation of the plan was overseen by a dedicated programme office in the Department of the Taoiseach and an implementation group on policing reform, chaired by an independent...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Artificial Intelligence (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 15 to 20, inclusive, together. I travelled to Paris for the AI Action Summit on 10 and 11 February, co-hosted by President Macron and Prime Minister Modi of India. The summit gathered key stakeholders to explore how we can develop artificial intelligence, AI, technologies and uses globally while ensuring that nobody is left behind. It also discussed...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: Get out of it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: Do not tell me to get out of it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: You cannot talk about personalities in here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: This Government and the previous Government built more social houses than had been built since the 1970s in the past four years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a fact. Up to 48,000 social housing units were built. Nothing compares with that in the previous 15 or 20 years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy just keeps on shouting.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy keeps coming forward with facile and superficial analysis of the housing crisis.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: He sets himself up as a housing expert. He is nothing of the sort.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is why I would appreciate if he allowed other people to give their perspective. The only reason I raised my eyes was because I thought it was wrong of the Deputy to personalise the issue, demonise an individual who cannot defend himself in this House and make the assertions he has made about someone who has not been nominated to any position by Government. No decision has been taken,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: We have built close to-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is an elected representative and he has set himself up-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: I did not say the Deputy was-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is not a construction housing expert. He never has been. He is-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy lectures in social policy, and I believe he is a good lecturer in social policy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Micheál Martin: That does not make the Deputy a housing expert.