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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----than any Minister for elderly care whom I have seen in recent times. That is not to cast aspersions on anyone who went before the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. She is on top of her brief. She is working extremely hard to deal with this issue. She has secured the additional funding for home help hours. Recruitment is an issue. The Deputy should not try to dismiss that-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----because we have expanded so much in such a short space of time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I did not feel any backslapping yet.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: First, I appreciate the issues the Deputy has raised and the individual cases she has raised. It is not satisfactory that any person would have to go through that in regard to access to home care. The issue, as the Deputy knows, is not one of funding now because €150 million of additional funding was provided in 2021 to provide for 5 million more hours of home support, and that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: First, I want to pay tribute to the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for her commitment and ongoing work on disability issues. I did not get a chance to deal with that issue in my first three minutes. Indeed, I work with the Minister of State and, in my view, there has to be a review of the progressing disability services programme. I will be meeting with the Minister of State and the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I made the point that in any event, it has been made crystal clear that people who have bogs and who normally cut their turf will be able to continue doing that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: They will continue to be able to share that with their neighbours.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The traditional practices in rural Ireland will continue regarding turf. The Deputies just need a bit of calm perspective and balance in all of this. We can resolve this pragmatically.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Sinn Féin position is to get on any bandwagon it can to win a few votes. That is its position on a continuing basis.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Do not sue me now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: At the end of the day, we have a democracy. Directly elected Members of this House pass legislation and our fundamental and basic laws on an annual and sessional basis. The power lies in this House in terms of legislation and raising issues on a timely basis. With any funding initiatives and so on, the elected Government and the Oireachtas sanction the Estimates of various Departments....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: What I say to Deputy McDonald and to all who have influence in Northern Ireland is that, as Deputy O'Dowd pointed out, there is an amount of smoky coal coming into the Republic with no controls.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: This is damaging health here. We need to deal with this too. Smoky coal is the target here, not turf.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: There is responsibility on all sides of the House, including Deputy McDonald-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----to get off the fence in terms of what is necessary-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----for the health of people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have offset that. You know that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I do not believe in the abolition of the carbon tax and neither does Sinn Féin.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is in the motion. Sinn Féin really engages in endless duplicity on this issue. It calls for the abolition of carbon tax but it factors the revenue from carbon tax into its alternative budgets. It calls for stopping any increase in carbon tax but when we offset-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----the impact of that carbon increase, it still plays games. The excise duty on kerosene, which is the main home heating oil, is carbon tax. Be honest about it. Be transparent about it.