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

Micheál Martin: First, I accept the Deputy’s bona fides. I received her letter yesterday and we will set in train that briefing she requested. Those countries closest to Ukraine have the highest numbers of Ukrainians coming in, namely, Czechia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Latvia. Then you have Cyprus, Slovakia and Germany and then you have Ireland. We are taking the equivalent of...

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

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has just acknowledged that up to 54,000 Ukrainians have been accommodated in this country, and 43,000 of them have been accommodated by the State. That is not cobbling together a plan.

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

Micheál Martin: That is a reality. That has happened. We never before had to deal with such numbers coming into the country. We have to deal with it because of a war. It is a vicious war and we have said, along with our European Union colleagues, that we will do everything we can to accommodate Ukrainians, and we have. That must be acknowledged. The Deputy described all of that as a disaster. She...

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

Micheál Martin: The Deputy used that phrase at the beginning of her remarks and I know why she used it and who it was targeted at.

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

Micheál Martin: She is playing both sides in this debate, and I regret that she is.

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

Micheál Martin: She is not the first member of her party to play that game either.

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

Micheál Martin: We will continue to do everything we possibly can to deal with the housing crisis.

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

Micheál Martin: We are doing that, right across the board in terms of affordable housing and so on.

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

Micheál Martin: In regard to the humanitarian crisis that has been imposed upon Europe by Putin's appallingly immoral and illegal war-----

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

Micheál Martin: -----we will do everything we can to respond. We are responding and have responded as a country.

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

Micheál Martin: That is the language Deputy McDonald used.

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

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. Her commentary and some of the debate on this issue in recent days has become somewhat detached from the reality we find ourselves confronted with. We need to be very clear about what this is all about, what has happened, where we are and where we go from here. The first thing that has to be done is to acknowledge and pay tribute to the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 148 and 149 together. While there are elements of communications to most policy roles in my Department, the Unit in my Department whose function relates to communications is the Government Information Service (GIS). GIS includes the Government Press Office and the MerrionStreet content team and works on a cross-functional and collaborative basis to: - provide...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: It is not on the agenda at the Council meeting.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: We know that.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: It is not on the Council agenda.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: No, I do not actually.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: The European Council will meet in Brussels later this week on 20 and 21 October. Before turning to that meeting, I will briefly update the House on the first meeting of the European Political Community, which took place in Prague on 6 October, and on the informal meeting of the European Council that took place the following day. The first meeting of the European Political Community on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald raised the scoping inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell. I met with the family during the summer. The Government agreed to facilitate the family with a copy of the scoping inquiry report. The Government has not yet considered the report in deference to the family's wishes at that time. I will meet with the family again, and I understand a date has now been agreed by...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: We need to have bespoke measures to try to help people in district heating settings with effective interventions. Deputy Paul Murphy raised the issue of local employment services in Tallaght and Clondalkin being shut down for three months and then being restored in a differently organised way. He said it is a slimmed down version. The tendering did not facilitate a race to the bottom. We...