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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: My understanding is that there is not a cut of that scale in terms of inspections. The Residential Tenancies Board has the resources to pursue breaches of the legislation in respect of protecting tenants. On the issue of resources-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of the overall support, I will come back to the Deputy with the specifics.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. The Chief Medical Officer is very clear that we have to move to a different phase of the pandemic, that the wholesale testing and tracing regime will no longer apply during the transitionary period and that we have to embed into our existing public health system permanent responses and surveillance of the disease and other diseases. The Sentinel...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I was asked-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----but that will not guarantee housing at the scale we require. We need private builders to build houses. We need local authorities to build houses. They are doing so, and we have resourced them to do it. We need approved social housing bodies to build houses, and they are doing so to an increasing extent and to very high standards, as I have witnessed when opening a variety of schemes...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We need to develop cost rental housing, which we are going to do, and continue to provide protections for renters, including in respect of indefinite duration.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: First, there has always been a tradition in this House of not making allegations against people who are not here to defend themselves or respond. Second, my understanding is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy's case went the whole way to the Committee on Procedure and Privileges when she abused privilege in this House.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: She never apologised for her abuse of privilege.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: She abused it. We need to adhere to those traditions because if people are not here to defend themselves or respond, it has to be taken into context. In any event, to make a general comment on public servants, we are fortunate in this country to have high standards of public service across Departments. There is no doubt there are strengths and weaknesses, but overall Irish public...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: There are many parties on that council; let us be clear about that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The SIPO report will have an impact and, I would put it to the Deputy, is already having an impact. When a report like that is published, even though it is specific to a particular action by a chief executive officer in a particular local authority, it has wider implications and ramifications for other chief executive officers in local authorities throughout the country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Yes, it does. I would not agree with the Deputy. Not everyone is going to behave in the same way that one council does or one chief executive officer may do. Others will take note of what was laid down by SIPO and its findings regarding this issue. That is my view. It will have-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----far-reaching impacts on the future behaviour of councils.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Other councils will take a different view and take on board the SIPO report and its conclusions. There cannot be any attempts to influence the content of any local radio discussion, debate or its treatment or coverage of any issue-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have introduced rent restrictions in this country. I am just back from Berlin. The rent freeze there did not work at all; it had a completely dysfunctional impact on the market. We have to learn lessons. I read the daft.iereport. The fundamental point is that we need to build more houses. Building 20,000 houses a year is not enough. It is a huge factor in terms of where rents are....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is wrong. The last number of housing projects that I opened were all social housing projects, completed. In the first quarter of last year we had a lockdown. The Deputy knows that. There was a full lockdown of construction.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We are and we have introduced rent restrictions. We are going to develop cost rental houses also. In the rent pressure zones, we have capped rent increases at 2%. Supply is the ultimate answer to this. We have to build houses of all types and we need all sectors involved in housing. The Deputy's problem is he does not believe the private sector should be involved at all. That is his...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: To come to the housing issue, what Sinn Féin is good at is rewriting narratives and spinning. In terms of Dublin City Council-----