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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Do not sue me now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: At the end of the day, we have a democracy. Directly elected Members of this House pass legislation and our fundamental and basic laws on an annual and sessional basis. The power lies in this House in terms of legislation and raising issues on a timely basis. With any funding initiatives and so on, the elected Government and the Oireachtas sanction the Estimates of various Departments....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: What I say to Deputy McDonald and to all who have influence in Northern Ireland is that, as Deputy O'Dowd pointed out, there is an amount of smoky coal coming into the Republic with no controls.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: This is damaging health here. We need to deal with this too. Smoky coal is the target here, not turf.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: There is responsibility on all sides of the House, including Deputy McDonald-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----to get off the fence in terms of what is necessary-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----for the health of people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have offset that. You know that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I do not believe in the abolition of the carbon tax and neither does Sinn Féin.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is in the motion. Sinn Féin really engages in endless duplicity on this issue. It calls for the abolition of carbon tax but it factors the revenue from carbon tax into its alternative budgets. It calls for stopping any increase in carbon tax but when we offset-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----the impact of that carbon increase, it still plays games. The excise duty on kerosene, which is the main home heating oil, is carbon tax. Be honest about it. Be transparent about it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: You never call it. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald keeps on saying "excise duty". It is carbon tax on home heating oil.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: What we decided to do is take offsetting measures-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----to more than compensate for the increase which will not impact on people. The real issue here, which Deputy McDonald has not addressed-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not, actually. It is smoky coal.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The bigger issue is, and Deputy Fergus O'Dowd nailed it in November 2021 when he spoke in the Dáil, is that we need a major clampdown on the cross-Border sale of solid fuels and the appalling illegal advertising. Lots of smoky coal is coming into the Republic and it should not. The North should ban it also. The North should deal with it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have answered Deputy McDonald on turf.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We dealt with it in-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Calm down, please. Just calm down. For you this is manna from heaven. It is the great issue again. Let us have hyperbole, exaggeration and so on like that. The reality is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I want to clarify the final point