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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Commission for Regulation of Utilities and EirGrid have advised - as the Deputy knows because I have said this already I the Dáil - that there was a short to medium term risk to electricity security of supply, and that there was an increased likelihood of more frequent system alerts, system emergencies and potential for some electricity customers to lose power in winter of 2021 to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: Well, the Deputy said it was "messed up".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: It did not go ahead. Again, let us wait for the full, transparent presentation of information to be made------

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I do not think we do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald said the country is open for investment. What does she mean?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: There is a lot of bluff and bluster repeatedly coming from Deputy McDonald on housing, with nothing to back it up-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: Every time the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, brings in legislation on affordable housing, we get this repeated negativity and opposition-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----from Sinn Féin to the legislation until the division bells ring. What happens then?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin meekly goes in and supports the affordable housing legislation, despite all the bluster, hype and all of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy opposite said we are open for investment, but by the way-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----we do not want any institutional investment whatsoever and wants a no-go area. That is the point.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy asked who we were taking for fools.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: Who is the Deputy taking for fools, given the extraordinary repeated and consistent opposition to housing projects all over the country, denying ordinary people access to housing development after development? Rank hypocrisy is going on in this House for far too long. There is no roadshow to attract any cuckoo funds and-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----the Government agreed today on the owner-occupier guarantee-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: It was agreed by the Government in terms of legislation and so on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: This intervention is totally out of order-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----and is being facilitated by policies in the House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: Ar dtús báire, arís, níl an fhírinne a rá ag an Teachta. Níl an ceart aici. Go bunúsach, is í an aidhm atá ag an Rialtas ná tithe a chur ar fáil do dhaoine ar fud na tíre, na gnáthdhaoine agus cosmhuintir na tíre. Is í sin an t-aon aidhm amháin atá ag an Rialtas. The Deputy's attempts to portray...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: No. The question is meant to be a propaganda spin, designed to portray Government housing policy as being exclusively about one thing and one thing only, which, of course, is far from the truth. I have outlined the facts to the Deputy. As far as the Government is concerned, and Fianna Fáil has been in government for approximately a year and a half now with Fine Gael and the Green...