Results 14,101-14,120 of 50,297 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: We cannot do it. Unfortunately, the experience has been that it takes too long. We are extending the timeframe for the operation of the legislation that is expiring, in essence, and consolidating-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----the existing powers that were there in different Acts and so forth. I accept the point that people are war weary of this pandemic. Of course, they are. It has gone on much longer than people may have anticipated.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: On the other hand, we are in a different position this year compared to last year in terms of the where the economy is and the degree to which it has bounced back. There are 30,000 job vacancies in quarter 3, compared to 19,000, two years ago. The hospitality sector, entertainment and tourism have been hardest hit and we will do everything we can to support those sectors.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: I disagree with the basic premise of the Deputy's argument. She speaks of a Government agenda. The only agenda I and the Government have is to protect people's lives and health in the middle of a global pandemic which is a one-in-100-year event. There is no other agenda than that. I do not know what the Deputy meant when she said it was just to suit the Government's agenda. Our...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: The HSE acknowledges that it has to improve systems, but it is more than that. In my conversations with all the principals yesterday, there was a sense, to be frank, that the same urgency that applied to getting a first and second dose was not quite there for the third dose. That is not to cast blame or anything like that, but to urge everybody that the booster has very significant and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is good to see the Deputy back. I thank him for raising these questions. He called the re-enactment of the public health laws last week "draconian". These laws have been debated in the House on a number of occasions since the pandemic started. Public health comes to the forefront during a pandemic and laws are brought in for its duration. These are not laws one would use in ordinary...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----than anything Sinn Féin has to offer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Housing for All strategy was announced some months ago. It is the plan. I challenge Deputy McDonald to come up with a detailed, substantive alternative plan to the Housing for All strategy because she knows deep down the detail is there and it is comprehensive. The issue is now delivery and implementation because supply is key to the housing crisis. That begs the question of why her...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----significant housing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: It does.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Carthy has said it - it is ideology.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: On Oscar Traynor Road, how long more are we going to have to hang around waiting?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Carthy has been very helpful in his interruption because he has confirmed Sinn Féin voted against the Oscar Traynor Road proposal.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: That is 853 social, affordable and cost rental houses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: As a party, Sinn Féin has voted consistently-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----and its Members come in here then and attack the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is thousands of houses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: The party opposed 1,200 units in Donabate. I am answering Deputy Ó Snodaigh's question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is not displaying sincerity.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy and his party are not displaying credibility when they come in here and attack, attack and attack. Their solutions are absent.