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Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is fairly competitive in here.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I am conscious that Deputy Shane Moynihan and-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Dúirt an Teachta Shane Moynihan go raibh fonn air béim a chur ar na mionchomhlachtaí agus aontaím leis. Phléigh sé conas is féidir linn iad a threisiú agus a dhéanamh níos láidre diaidh ar ndiaidh agus an tslí ar féidir linn é sin a dhéanamh. On competitiveness, the scaling up of smaller companies has been a key...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: On the EU capital markets union, I discussed that with President Costa. Ireland will have a key role. That needs to happen for the future of Europe and releasing capital on European -----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: To respond to Deputy Boyd Barrett, the local authority needs to take action. Increasingly, people are asking the Government to get into the workings of local councils. They should be rehousing people-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: They should be rehousing people who are in the conditions the Deputy outlined. In many local authorities across the country, that has happened. Many of the regeneration schemes in Dublin seem to be very slow compared with those in other areas, which have been more extensive and focused. I do not know why that is. Some of the flat complexes and so on should have been refurbished a long...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I know. That is what I am saying, but the council should do it. More social housing has been built to facilitate rehousing people who are living in those conditions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: To respond to Deputy Murphy, I mentioned during Leaders' Questions that the Government will put in about €6 billion in 2025. It is estimated that what is required to reach the targets everybody agrees with will be between €15 billion and €20 billion. The Government will not be able to do €15 billion to €20 billion on an ongoing basis. It can do €6...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Housing Agency has been conducting a review of RPZs since last year. It will finish its review at the end of quarter 1. The Housing Commission asked that we would do a detailed, evidence-based examination of this German reference pricing system. That should happen because that is what the commission recommended. We do not have to go with it but at the very least we should examine it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 8 together. The Government's response to the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council's competitiveness challenge report 2024 was published on 5 November last. The Government's response was co-ordinated by the Department of An Taoiseach, drawing together material from relevant Departments. This was the fifth year in which a formal response...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Where is this?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Regarding Deputy Shane Moynihan's comments, it is true that his constituency is a rapidly growing one. In the considerations for the updated and renewed national development plan, we will look at what can be included and what types of developments can be done, particularly in respect of rail services more generally, public transport and roads infrastructure, particularly in new areas. Very...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank all of the Deputies for raising issues with me. Regarding Deputy Boyd Barrett's comments, that is a matter for the entire Oireachtas. It is not a Government issue as such because the Oireachtas Commission presumably-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Let me finish. I do not have the full background to this. I do not know whether these are self-employed contractors or how the company won the contract but it seems to me to be fundamentally an issue that the Deputy should raise in the context of the Oireachtas Commission and the organisation of the House. I do not know whether he has done that or not in the context of the House but-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: I know but I do not think this issue has been raised with me in the past. It never has been-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Yes, but I am just wondering if he has raised it. He has been in the House a long time. I am just wondering whether he has-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: Fair enough. Okay. Anyway, it is a matter for the commission and we will certainly check it out-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and examine it to see what has happened. In response to Deputy O'Callaghan, there is a very real issue with regard to the entitlements of retired postal workers. I will be talking to the Minister for public expenditure in relation to that and to wider issues in terms of agreements of this type that happened in the past and people feeling that their pension entitlements have not...