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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The tenant in situ scheme has not been closed at all, as the Deputy knows.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is five hours of debate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: You have made an assertion that there are-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and there are not. I respect the Deputy a lot and I respect her good faith on these issues to a point, but I often get the sense the debate on Palestine in this House and elsewhere is more about trying to create division between the public, the people and the Government of the day.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is my genuine sense.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have been through this since the beginning of the war and that is a genuine takeaway I have from some of the protestations and interruptions from certain people on the far left in particular-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----who have interrupted various meetings we have had, endeavouring to disrupt.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is fine if people want to do that but it is not advancing, in my view, sensible, logical and rational debate as best we can.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: What is going on is appalling. No one has a monopoly of virtue on the question in this House, nor should one seek to assert it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The lads are watching it in Arbour Hill as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have been very consistent in this House, as the Government has been, in condemning Israeli attacks on Gaza and the continuing bombardment of Gaza. We have been absolutely consistent, without question. We have taken a whole range of steps since the outbreak of this terrible war and the horrific attack by Hamas on 7 October, which also deserves to be roundly condemned. I have done that,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is not-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I never used the word "pride", so do not put words in my mouth, please. I never used that word, nor did I use the word "boast". Everything within our capacity to have an impact on this situation, we have been doing. We should not overinflate the impact of other measures the Deputy mentioned. There are no planes leaving Shannon for Gaza.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is very dismissive of the vacancy grants. They are a huge-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: They are a huge addition to making houses affordable for God's sake.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: If the Deputy talks to anybody who avails of those grants, he see they are incredibly substantial, and so are the grants for dereliction if a person buys a derelict house and refurbishes it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: That makes it affordable. It made it possible, and it has been a success. I know the Social Democrats opposed it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Some of them went out against that as well-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----because they went against the affordability legislation that passed through the House in the previous Dáil. The homelessness issue is becoming much more complex in terms of the composition of those who are homeless now-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and the additional pressures that have come on in terms of emergency housing accommodation. It is not similar to what homelessness was five or six years ago. That needs to be acknowledged and analysed as well. What Government is focusing on is exiting people from homelessness as quickly as possible and preventing people from becoming homeless in the first instance.