Results 13,241-13,260 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We are going to do that. Fortunately, this year we have put €4 billion into a contingency fund in the budget for Covid for 2022. Some of that is now being used for Ukraine. The figure the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform used last week was an estimate of what it could be in 2023. We hope it is not and that the war will end. I accept the Deputy's bona fides and the merits...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy should go back to the person in question and tell them to go back to the council because the funding is there. I do not know the specifics about the house but that is not on. Very significant capital funding has been given to local authorities to repair housing and vacant properties. Due to a very strong initiative taken by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: In respect of KBC and Ulster Bank leaving-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: If you let me-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am speaking through the Chair. The point I am making is that existing banks should do everything possible to work with the exiting banks to facilitate customers. The Department of Finance is engaging with the banks to ensure that happens.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Everything must be done to protect tenants and we are doing that through a variety of legislation and so forth. The Deputy asked about St. Helen's Court in Dún Laoghaire and landlords issuing notices to vacate to five HAP tenants at that location. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is working with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure the five...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Tyrrelstown amendment was the optimal that could be achieved within the current constitutional framework. That is my understanding and we must work with the practical and real legal framework.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It would require a change to the Constitution. We are working on an amendment to the Constitution related to housing. It is one of the tasks of the new Commission on Housing. With regard to Radoslaw, Tony and the other tenants who are the victims of this unacceptable behaviour, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is working with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The existing banks should step up to the plate and should do everything they possibly can to assist the customers of the exiting banks, KBC and Ulster Bank, in respect of their needs and to facilitate switching. I am unclear as to what the Deputy thinks the Government should do. He has not really specified that. He spoke about a laissez-faireapproach. I am not clear on what he is saying...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am still unclear as to the fundamental point the Deputy is making. Is he saying the Department of Finance-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Is the assertion-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: He has not articulated it. Is he asserting that the Department of Finance should take over the role of the Central Bank?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: What is the function? We have had this argument-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: This is an argument that is not from today or yesterday with regard to the management of banks. The Central Bank is there. There is a separation between the Government and the operation of banks. There always has been. I am interested in hearing the Deputy's ideas as his presentation was not clear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The rent index is designed to measure developments in rental prices faced by those taking up new tenancies. A tax credit would only add to the price of those rents. It would be inflationary. There is no guarantee it would result in a reduction of increasing rents for new tenancies, none whatsoever. The Deputy is wrong in saying the Housing for All policies are not working. By definition,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Níl an ceart ag an Teachta. Tá fianaise ann go bhfuil polasaí an Rialtais ag obair. Tá níos mó tithíochta á cruthú againn. Tá sé sin soiléir ó na figiúirí atá againn maidir le cúrsaí tithíochta. The Deputy is not correct in saying that the Housing for All strategy, launched last September, is...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Housing is scheduled to take place on Thursday, 12thofMay. This Committee works to ensure a coordinated approach to the implementation of Housing for All and the delivery of Programme for Government commitments regarding housing and related matters. Progress of Housing for All is overseen by the Cabinet Committee on Housing and Government, with...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Regarding Deputy McDonald's point, I will revert to the Tánaiste in relation to that. We all of course want workplaces that are free of violence and harassment. A whole raft of legislation is already in place on our Statute Book dealing with harassment and violence in the workplace and to protect employees. Sometimes the various declarations passed by international organisations have...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: On the health front, we are moving to a situation where, increasingly, all of the tertiary hospitals and other model hospitals are State run, funded and controlled. That is where it is heading because of the complexity of health. In my view, that is the way it has to go on the health side. Deputy Paul Murphy spoke about his campaigning for People Before Profit in the election and said...