Results 14,841-14,860 of 50,297 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: I take the Deputy's point about the absolute necessity of regulatory frameworks.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: We have an operating market in place for the security of electricity supply. I have to work with the regulatory framework that I have inherited and is in place. I will do that. We will do everything that we possibly can to reduce any alerts relating to the security of supply. The Deputy has referred to the Maritime Area Planning Bill. That is before the Oireachtas and will be passed...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy opened his remarks quite properly about talking about the need for regulatory frameworks and the importance of regulation. That is exactly where we are on energy security. There is a regulatory framework governing the provision of a secure supply of electricity.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: This is by the CRU and EirGrid. Government no longer has legal powers to intervene directly and do what it likes with the energy markets.
- 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-----