Results 14,781-14,800 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----because of the narrative that he has been putting forward. We are going to address this issue on all fronts. It is a very serious issue. We need to provide for it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I respectfully suggest that this endless opposition to housing projects will not help renters or the construction of houses in this country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy says that I will finally get it. She paints a narrative that I am divorced from reality and all of that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: Okay. I just want to say that my background - where I grew up and what we had to put up with - was far different to yours.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I just want to make that point. I did not interrupt you. Do not dare to lecture me. I understand the realities of life as well anybody else in this House.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I do not intend to understand it more. I know a thing or two about people being in difficulty and facing challenges in their early lives with regard to the cost of living and their backgrounds.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: The most comprehensive solutions that have ever been adopted have been adopted by this Government in Housing for All.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: We need co-operation across the board at every level. If politicians really believe this is a crisis, they should behave accordingly-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and stop serially objecting to housing project after housing project because it does not fit some ideological framework.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: You cannot have it both ways. You cannot talk to the private sector privately, as Deputy Ó Broin does, and say that you are all for private investment, that the guff and sloganeering Sinn Féin goes on with should not be listened to, and that there will be a warm house for the private sector when Sinn Féin gets into power.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: That is the sort of talking out of both sides of one's mouth that has been going on. I am willing to work with all parties in this House because this crisis is too big for politics. It is not enough for parties to exploit a crisis for their own electoral gain.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: People out there do not believe in that. I genuinely think-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am open to proposals and ideas that will work, but not this-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: Deputy, you are not the leader. You were not appointed leader by the politburo so just back off.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this profoundly serious issue. I have read the executive summary of the report - the preliminary section of it. It is shocking and very serious. What happened is unacceptable. It represents a damning indictment of the service. The first principle of medicine is to do no harm. Children were harmed here by a complete failure of clinical performance and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising what I have repeatedly raised in this House, and since I became Taoiseach one year and a half ago, that housing is the single most important social issue facing our country at this time. It is an enormous challenge that goes to the heart of cohesion within society and above all of giving younger generations, in particular, the opportunity to own their homes, to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----that the most recent attempts, which started in 2008 and attempts were made in 2015 to get that project off the ground, was defeated by politics-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----on a consistent basis.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: What the Irish people cannot afford and what the renters cannot afford is Sinn Féin and others - I apply this to everybody - consistently opposing housing projects that will increase supply.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin has opposed the O'Devaney Gardens project. It has opposed developments on Oscar Traynor Road.