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Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----which is what we have in this country. We have much State ownership in this country. We own the railways. We own the water supply, unlike our neighbours, and so on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: You guys do not believe in any enterprise at all. You ideologically do not believe in it, which is your entitlement.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: That is why where you are coming from in respect of CETA and other trade agreements. You should be honest about it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: That is where you are coming from.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: The point is that the Supreme Court clarified what can be done here. Given where this country is coming from and the need to continue to create employment, we must be open and proactive with regard to accessing fair and accessible markets in terms of growing jobs in this country. I do not believe that is Deputy Boyd Barrett's position. He has an ideological perspective, which is his...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should be honest about it and call it out. In the future, the Japanese and Singaporean agreements will have dispute resolution mechanisms. That will be a feature. There are protections we can build in. One of ours is that we have a written Constitution. We are also members of the European Union treaty. Europe is going Fit for 55. It is not entering into trade agreements to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----which are very strict policies. Let us get a bit real about all of this too.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Murphy Paul Murphy talked about the corporate sustainability directive. That has not passed. There is always-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: I am sorry. There is always engagement between governments regarding a range of issues in terms of any directive. No one is passive when a directive is being negotiated at European level.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: I am just making a point to you.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: We do not lobby. We are members of the European Union.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: As a country, we have an entitlement----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----to seek amendments and give opinions and views-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: ---as a directive is being debated.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: I am doing it through the Chair but I am being interrupted all the time. That is fine too; I take it on the chin.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Bacik raised the issue of water quality monitoring. I endorse what she said about some very imaginative advertisements around water safety. Her view is that we need to do more in terms of water quality monitoring. That is improving now. it is going to enhance for swimmers, in particular the quality of water in their bays. I read Mr. Mark Henry's chapter on this. There has been a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: People are very vulnerable. There always has to be a balance and trade-offs in terms of trying to get the vital infrastructure that protects water quality and protects people from being flooded on a continuing basis in place. There are always groups that want to get the optimum in different situations, and we have problems with infrastructure. I can tell Deputy Barry that I was not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: I highlighted it. I have been very modest about Ireland because Ireland has been a laggard for the last ten years of respect of climate change. We are now catching up but we have a long way to go and much to do. What I said at Sharm El-Sheik was that the carbon tax gave us very substantial funds to enable us to combat fuel poverty, provide for environmentally friendly farming and, above...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: These are things the Deputy opposes all the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: I propose to answer questions Nos. 12 to 17, inclusive, together. The high-level action plan for the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces sets out initial implementation and oversight structures. It was agreed by the Government on 12 July 2022. Under the action plan, a high-level steering board will oversee the implementation of the report's recommendations. In addition to...