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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.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I argue, and I have said it about all parties, that if we are all agreed housing is the number one crisis then Members opposite must ask themselves the question-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----as to how they can in good conscience-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----object to projects that have been years in planning with the councils and involve social, affordable and cost-rental housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: How can they continue to oppose them?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I make the point that I did not interrupt anybody when they were speaking.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. What I said yesterday and today is not blaming people. It was to underline the importance of the booster, especially in light of the arrival of the Omicron variant. I was talking to the President of the European Commission and others. There is still a bit to go on interpreting the data, research and science. The science seems to indicate we are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: The Government has prioritised housing as the key social issue that needs to be addressed. In that context, it produced Housing for All, which is the very opposite to the so-called deafening silence on the part of the Government to which the Deputy referred. I have listened to her for quite a long time on housing but I see very little substance. I see a lot of sloganeering, sound bites and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I would say to Deputy Cullinane that if Sinn Féin had voted for the proposals relating to the Oscar Traynor Road site, I would believe a bit more in its credibility. Sinn Féin needs to explain.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: I do not understand how Deputy McDonald can stand up and rant on in the sound-bite manner in which she does and sit down without explaining to anybody why Sinn Féin voted against 853 social, affordable and cost-rental homes at the Oscar Traynor Road site. The latter was the latest in a series of deliberate decisions by Sinn Féin to oppose substantial housing proposals for Dublin....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: It voted against 1,200 social, affordable and private homes in Donabate. It voted against them. How can we declare something a crisis in that light? I have said this to all, but Sinn Féin in particular has been opposing projects across the board that involve social and affordable housing. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has committed to 4,000 new affordable...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: It is like Tommy Cooper long ago, it is a case of just like that. "Just like that, we will make it 20,000". The Minister says there will be 4,000 affordable and, just like that, Sinn Féin will say "We will make it 8,000". There is no substance behind it. It is just empty rhetoric as far as I can see. The Sinn Féin approach to housing is to exploit the housing crisis to suit its...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald raised the issue of an Irish language Act which we understand will be introduced in Westminster. I do not know if it will be done before the recess but certainly it will be done early in the new year. It is a pity it was not done in the Assembly, as agreed last year. The package of language and identity legislation agreed under New Decade, New Approach was detailed,...