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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Healy-Rae knows where his bread is buttered at the end of the day when it comes to the longevity and lifespan of this particular Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: The more important point is the ownership issue has been dealt with and the guarantees are there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I will deal with the issue on which the Deputy has focused in Leaders' Questions. I have dealt enough with the hospital today. I watched that programme. It is not good enough. The State has failed the Milne family, and Ryan and Kyle in particular, in terms of providing a proper, comprehensive education for the children that would be appropriate to their complex needs. They have applied...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: First, this has been an interesting debate. What has struck me are the attempts to sort of reverse the truth or to rename the truth and to make a declaration, which the Deputy has been making consistently, in the hope that it becomes the truth and develops into a new truism, which is that 300 years of a lease at €10 per year is somehow not ownership. It is ownership; it is public...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Think it through in terms of the decisions. There is information and access but to what great degree? Policy has to dictate the public health system and the public health service.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Paul Murphy asked about the stamp 2 visas. I believe these have been extended on nine occasions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: The rhetoric articulated by the Deputy suggest that the Minister is doing nothing. The Minister has extended these on nine occasions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: There comes a time when we must have some balance also in what we are doing on overall policy and frameworks, to be fair all around. I do not have the full details on Deputy Barry's question on the inquest. I will come back to the Deputy on the issue he has raised. Deputy McAuliffe asked about policing. We are working on this committee. We did not get to deal with it yesterday but at the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: There is a range of issues to be covered. First, on the draft policing, security and community safety Bill which Deputy Bacik raised, in April of last year the general scheme was published. Among the objectives, clearly, is to provide a new, more coherent governance and oversight framework to strengthen both the external oversight of An Garda Síochána, as well as its internal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I will revert back to the Deputy. I will engage with the Minister on that. We are all looking for a comprehensively sound database in respect of the crime statistics. Deputy Daly raised the issue of GSOC and historic inquiries. The volume of cases currently being heard by GSOC is quite considerable. As I have said previously, there has to be some balance, unfortunately, in terms of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: A proper apology. An apology was issued-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Maybe I took Deputy Daly up wrong but I thought he was looking for an historic inquiry into the case but we will have to assess that in the context of the capacity of GSOC, to be frank. We will look at that. On the death of Shane O'Farrell and the scoping exercise, I have met the O'Farrell family, most recently with Deputy Niamh Smyth, who raised Shane's death initially today. It is a very...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Minister said his announcement is imminent. I will ask him to confirm when he will make an announcement in that respect and come back to the Deputy. It is welcome that we have cut the fares for public transport and that it is leading to an increase in uptake. Free fares is not a realistic prospect. The Government made the decision to cut fares as part of its anti-inflationary...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: That is not my understanding but I will follow that up. Deputy McAuliffe raised the issue of-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I would love to call out to Finglas to visit the family resource centre. I will talk to the Minister about the primary care facility, housing need and the potential provision of housing in that area. I will talk to the Minister about the specifics of the proposal made by Deputy Murnane O'Connor in terms of providing greater opportunity to the people of Carlow to avail of affordable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 22 to 29, inclusive, together. The public service, justice and policing reform unit is part of the social policy and public service reform division of my Department. The work of the unit supports me, in my role as Taoiseach, on policing reform, criminal justice, public service reform, social affairs and other related matters. It incorporates the policing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 to 21 together. The housing and infrastructure unit supports me and the Government in building a successful society and economy through sustainable economic development with a particular focus on housing and infrastructure policy. This includes supporting the work of the Cabinet committee on housing which oversees the delivery of Housing for All. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Cian O'Callaghan raised the issue of the local property tax in respect of vacancies. Vacancies and dereliction are two separate concepts. In a recent analysis, 96% of all apartments in Dublin were occupied despite all the commentary that lots of apartments are empty. I think that was in the Daft report; I will check the source of that. We need to be careful with our descriptions...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Boyd Barrett again chose his words carefully. When he suggested that the timing was interesting the clear implication was that I was going there because of NATO and Finland's application to join it, which was not the case at all. Both countries offer significant insights and they are both members of the European Union, by the way. I hope there is no problem with visiting fellow...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: That language, or the word "establishment", conveys that there is some sort of elite there that has no connection with anybody. Those governments are elected and I met the elected governments.