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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should do a bit more homework than just one article because articles can get things wrong from time to time. My understanding is that the article in today's Irish Examinerthat was critical of the level of delivery against our national retrofit targets incorrectly referred to a target of 62,500 retrofits in 2022 when the actual target was 27,000. The latest projections from the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Some 35,000 applications for support have been received, which represents a 150% increase on the same period last year.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I could go on. I will get the details for the Deputy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: On the prepaid meters issue, I would argue we have had significant clarity on that in the Government’s response, both in the budget in respect of all the payments that are being made between now and the end of the year, together with the energy credits, something I have outlined to the House on numerous occasions, and in the work the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, has...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: We have been very clear from the outset that the law applies from the date the law is passed, by definition. In any event, these are issues and there is time for that amendment to be taken.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: On Deputy Healy-Rae's point, my understanding is that the Business Committee met in respect of the various timings for debates this week. The Deputy has asked for a debate. I take his point about services. I pay tribute to the health services and to our education services, where a great number of personnel have given a great deal of help and assistance outside of their normal work hours-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----pro bonoto many Ukrainian refugees, and I thank them for that. Many people across the community in education, health and other services have done that and we should acknowledge that. With the greatest will in the world, I do not believe we could ever dismantle Kerry tourism or Kerry hospitality.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Ryan, with the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities, EirGrid and the Department, form a board to try to accelerate the offshore wind initiative. The desire of the State is to do this in a controlled and organised way, not in a wild west sort of way. It is a natural resource. It is a national resource that belongs to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----that we need to up our pace and speed up the rate at which we can get these projects in place, certainly before the end of the decade. We have already increased our target in respect of offshore wind, hydrogen and so on for the end of the decade. Be in no doubt of the Government's commitment in respect of the funding. I think the Deputy is talking about loan facilities. Given the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Sorry?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: They get to their destination.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: It is getting loans.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I stand open to correction, but the ban on exploration came about as a result of a recommendation from an Oireachtas committee of the previous Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: The previous Oireachtas committee on climate decided, by majority vote if I am correct, that we would ban oil and gas exploration. Why? Because we wanted to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. Why? Because we wanted to deal with the issue of climate change, because climate change is existential and we have to start. The danger was that if we kept on doing oil and gas exploration, we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: More than 20 years ago, we put a facility together that married health, housing and homelessness in a centre on Anderson's Quay in Cork city, where we gave access to primary care, mental healthcare and homeless services. What the Deputy is saying is not quite true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: It has long been recognised that people who are homeless for a variety of reasons-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy introduced politics into this at the beginning, which is fine. I am just making the point that there is a multiplicity of reasons someone ends up homeless. We cannot generalise to the degree he is perhaps doing. Some, without doubt, have significant challenges as they become homeless, which can lead to increased morbidity and mortality. The point I am trying to make is that we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: What do we do? We bring the GP and the primary care service to the homeless centre or we at least provides it in an accessible way. In my view, there is a way of dealing with this, we are committed to doing it and unprecedented resources have been allocated to it. It was done very well during the Covid period, and we want to try to maintain that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: The death of anyone who is homeless is a tragedy. We extend our sympathies to the families concerned. I refer, in particular, to the deaths of people availing of homeless services. That matter is taken very seriously. The Deputy made a fairly bald statement in the context of offering an almost a direct juxtaposition between the numbers who have died and the position regarding...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I want to confirm the Deputy's points about those displaced over the weekend. That was disappointing. We do not want that situation to happen. All Ukrainian displaced persons and international protection, IP, applicants who were not accommodated over the weekend have now been contacted and offered accommodation. On the co-ordination front, I am aware of the issue because we met with...