Results 13,361-13,380 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: You never call it. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald keeps on saying "excise duty". It is carbon tax on home heating oil.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: What we decided to do is take offsetting measures-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----to more than compensate for the increase which will not impact on people. The real issue here, which Deputy McDonald has not addressed-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not, actually. It is smoky coal.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The bigger issue is, and Deputy Fergus O'Dowd nailed it in November 2021 when he spoke in the Dáil, is that we need a major clampdown on the cross-Border sale of solid fuels and the appalling illegal advertising. Lots of smoky coal is coming into the Republic and it should not. The North should ban it also. The North should deal with it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have answered Deputy McDonald on turf.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We dealt with it in-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Calm down, please. Just calm down. For you this is manna from heaven. It is the great issue again. Let us have hyperbole, exaggeration and so on like that. The reality is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I want to clarify the final point
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: All of you know that anything being proposed will have no impact this winter.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: No, but you keep on saying this is not the right time. Has it registered with you that it will not impact this winter-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in any shape or form? It is not being stopped right now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: In the first instance, in a wide ranging presentation, Deputy McDonald said the Government had been doing nothing on the cost of living. I need to disabuse her of that statement. That is a completely false statement to assert because the Government has worked extremely hard and consistently in easing - not by any means mitigating in total - the cost of living increases that have occurred in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We reduced the caps for multiple children on school transport fees and have cut public transport fares by 20% until the end of the year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We will introduce the young adult card next month which will reduce fares for young people under 24 by a further 50%. We lowered the threshold for the drug payment scheme to €80 per month, benefiting over 70,000 families. We brought forward the working family payment increase announced on budget day from 1 June to 1 April.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We launched a national retrofitting programme with unprecedented grant supports for home energy upgrades and increasing numbers of free energy upgrades for those at risk of energy poverty. Today the Government approved a proposal for the abolition of inpatient charges for children under 16 from July, to alleviate the financial burden of statutory hospital charges. There is much more in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----Deputy McDonald said it herself, in her opening remarks, that a minority now uses turf in our country in respect of their energy needs. It is important that we protect the rights of people in rural Ireland in terms of turbary rights, people utilising turf in their own bogs and traditional practices in turf sharing. They are not being banned at all.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: There will be no restrictions on people who own their own bogs and use turf in their domestic fire or share it with neighbours. There is no ban on the gifting of peat by those with rights to harvest sod peat. What Deputy McDonald needs to be very careful of is the fact that the big issue here is the coal industry; that is the big villain of the piece here. Back in the early 1990s, the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Civil Service (26 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Civil Service Renewal Plan, published in October 2014, included the establishment of an Accountability Board for the Civil Service to strengthen accountability and performance across the Civil Service by introducing greater oversight of delivery. It also recommended that the Board focused on providing oversight of a limited number of priorities actions including; - overall governance...