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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I know. There will be significant expenditure from here until the end of the year and beyond that. It is necessary and right. With the number of Ukrainians coming into the country, there will be expenditure on education, health and housing, of a significant nature. We have to get the balance right and not just react from week to week and month to month. I think the Deputy accepts that we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: To be clear, that will not be solved today but we need to engage with the social partners.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. I salute and commend all those volunteers who are doing so much to help Ukrainian refugees to settle in this country. As I said this morning, "our home is your home". The initial focus of our response has been on accommodation. To date, 19,283 people have arrived from Ukraine. Of these, 11,800 have sought accommodation. There has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: The way the carbon tax was structured benefits those on the lowest incomes, as the Deputy knows. That is the factual position and the research shows that but I know that evidence-based research is not the Deputy's forte in matters of this kind. That is what the research shows.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: That said, we are conscious of the impacts of the carbon tax. That is why the fuel allowance has risen so dramatically-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----and we have extended it significantly. It is also why we want to enable people to retrofit their homes, to develop energy efficiency to reduce costs

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: The approach I suggest is a broader one which has to involve engagement with our social partners. It is not just about one single measure every week as we move along. That cannot be the way we react. We reacted intelligently, effectively and fast as a country to deal with the pandemic's impact on the economy. The pandemic brought about the greatest decline in our economy since 1939 in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: We bounced back because of intelligent policies.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, the Deputy is about-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----the electoral and political exploitation of this, rather than looking at it from a point of view of substance.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising those points. Members are looking for initiatives every week and I understand that. We have to stand back, however, and take a more considered view on how we respond to this fairly unique crisis, which has been caused by the combination of a pandemic, emerging from that pandemic and the imbalance of supply and demand which that created and a terrible war, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: First, the Deputy did not actually call for anything of the sort that I proposed in the House yesterday in terms of the comprehensive approach I and the Government want to take to what is, without question, a very serious issue for the Irish economy and the European economy. That is manifested in the main at the moment by inflation. I said yesterday that we have had two, if not three,...

Address by H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, a Chathaoirligh, President Zelenskyy, Ireland is resolute in our solidarity and support for Ukraine. We thank President Zelenskyy for his heartfelt, honest, clear and, indeed, historic address to our Parliament this morning. The strength of his commitment and that of the people of Ukraine to his country and to restoring its place as a free, safe, democratic and an...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (6 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, a Chathaoirligh, President Zelenskyy, Ireland is resolute in our solidarity and support for Ukraine. We thank President Zelenskyy for his heartfelt, honest, clear and, indeed, historic address to our Parliament this morning. The strength of his commitment and that of the people of Ukraine to his country and to restoring its place as a free, safe, democratic and an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I do not forget it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I do not forget anything. I do not think we need to juxtapose one against the other all the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I believe war crimes should be pursued in every context.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I said every context. Deputy Paul Murphy referred to the European Union. At the last European Council meeting, it decided to establish a fund to restore and reconstruct Ukraine in the aftermath of the war and to help with its current budgeting. Issues with debt will have to be worked out in the aftermath of the war. In the meantime, the focus is on trying to defend the people from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: In response to Deputy Bríd Smith, we raised the issue of fossil fuels and renewables. President von der Leyen and the Commission put forward a strong narrative about energy for the future. The obvious future pathway is renewables. By the end of 2030, we have to eliminate any dependence on Russian gas, oil and coal.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Renewables are the most effective way to do it. In the context of the war, one cannot ignore that countries need gas and fuel now.