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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Why do we not cut to the chase and say that?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: We keep on objecting to everything that moves-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----and then condemning dereliction.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: It is a bit hypocritical.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I appreciate the points the Deputy has made in respect of remembering Savita Halappanavar and those taking part in the remembrance ceremony. He raises an important issue. As he knows, the Minister for Health has appointed Ms Marie O'Shea BL as the independent chair of the review of the legislation. There is a requirement in the 2018 Act that the legislation would be reviewed. There are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: We will take measures to force vacant units back into use and, more important, to force zoned land into use. The Ministers for Finance and Housing, Local Government and Heritage are working on that specific point. I agree additional measures will have to be taken, over and above what we have done. We are constantly at this in respect of adding capacity and trying to get more houses...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: There has been huge expansion in the nursing home programme over the years, particularly in terms of the nursing home support programme. Approximately 80% of all nursing homes are private and 20% are under the HSE, which we call community nursing units. The State is allocating approximately €1.4 billion per year to support approximately 22,000 nursing home residents and that has seen...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: As the person who set up HIQA, I take its guidance seriously. It has been very effective in increasing standards in health in this country since its initiation in the early 2000s. We take its point of view seriously because we want to protect and do everything we can to support smaller nursing homes as well because they are important in local communities for obvious reasons such as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I took the Deputy as raising this issue in good faith. The last part of her contribution suggests that she is reducing this to basic partisan politics, which is unworthy of the issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Dublin City Council is there to run this city. That is why we have councils. We have each way bets all the time in the House, saying that we have taken too much power from local authorities. Dublin City Council has to be at the heart of the rejuvenation of O'Connell Street. A community safety partnership has been established for some time. As I said at the end of my first reply I was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I have made it very clear, and I will say it again, that housing is the single most important social issue facing our society and country. In the past two years we have dedicated unprecedented financial resources to deal with housing. The fundamental approach has to be to increase supply. We have had to deal with Covid-19 and two lockdowns, which hit construction hard. We then had an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: That would take another year and a bit to establish.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: It would take another year and a half to get it established and up and running. We have established the Land Development Agency through legislation, which is dealing with a lot of development, to try to get social and affordable, as well as other housing, going using State lands. We already have an agency as an engine to get housing built as fast as we possibly can.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Again, the measures introduced by the Government are substantial on the income side in respect of providing funding to people to meet electricity bills, with substantial monthly payments from now until the end of the year. They should not be so lightly dismissed as the Government doing nothing. The scale and volume of those payments is unprecedented. In addition, there are other measures...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----de dheasca na bpraghsanna ag dul chomh ard agus atá siad. Coimeádfaimid súil ar sin chun cabhair a thabhairt do dhaoine i rith an gheimhridh ar fad agus táim muiníneach go mbeidh an tAire, a bhuí leis an méid atá déanta ag an Rialtas go dtí seo, in ann daoine a chosaint.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I do not disagree with her that there are serious societal issues on O’Connell Street, as shown on “Prime Time” yesterday evening. One is struck by the extraordinary wanton violence perpetrated by people against others on our streets late in the evening. There is no question that the free exchange of drugs on the streets is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: We all share this view and objective. The Minister has met with the companies and suppliers, with MABS, with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and with other non-governmental organisations that are at the coalface in respect of challenges that certain families or people may experience, particularly during a winter like this. The Government has taken a number of measures. We are not...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I visited New York for UN High Level Week from 21-23 September. While there, in addition to delivering Ireland’s National Statement, I had the opportunity to engage with a number of other Leaders in roundtable discussions, bilateral meetings and in the margins. I had formal bilateral meetings with the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres; the President of the UN General...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: United Nations (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I visited New York for UN High Level Week from 21-23 September. In delivering Ireland’s National Statement to the General Assembly, I said that all countries, no matter how small, have a contribution to make to international peace and security, and to economic and social development; and that all people have the right to live in dignity; to have their human rights and fundamental...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: When I said "I met", I think we getting too literal about this. I met the people concerned in Derry. It was not a meeting around a table. We discussed the matter. I am not into nitpicking about the issues, nor should the Deputy be. Rather, we should approach these things in good faith and not try to create advantage.