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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Development Plan (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 166, 167, 169 and 170 together. Delivering on key cross-border infrastructure commitments and developing new North/South investment projects to implement Programme for Government objectives on Shared Island is a priority for the Government. On 4 October, under the revised National Development Plan (NDP), the Government made allocations for the Shared Island...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Consultations (9 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: My Department has had no expenditure on external consultancy in 2020 or to date in 2021.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I have indeed. First of all, Deputy Lahart tabled this question with other Deputies. I am somewhat taken aback by the intolerance of some Deputies who contributed already this morning in facilitating Deputy Lahart to ask a question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I just find it extraordinary.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: As someone who was involved in Dáil reform-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: There he goes again. He is wasting time now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I just want to put my views on what I have witnessed on the record, which I am entitled to do as a Member of the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: There he goes again. "Your people". Deputy Lahart is an elected representative of the people to Dáil Éireann.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: At Deputy Lahart's first interjection today Deputy Boyd Barrett was shouting and roaring in an intolerant way.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: In any event, I wish to respond to the Deputy's point. He made a very fair point about the degree to which the capital city and, indeed, cities in general across the country have suffered as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of the impact on events, hospitality and tourism. Covid has had a devastating impact on all those sectors and on aviation. As we reopen society and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: We have been very consistent on Mercosur and I have made that point at European Council meetings-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----about deforestation and so forth. I dealt with the issue of rent controls earlier. To respond to Deputy Paul Murphy's points, Deputy Barry raised similar issues. I accept that a 2.7°C rise is catastrophic. That is why we need to take action. My view, however, is that the Deputies want to take down the world order as it is to solve climate action.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: No. I think Ireland is not a capitalist State-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----in the Deputy's pure definition. The State intervention in Irish economic activity is enormous. You will not solve climate change by trying to take things down every day of every week when governments meeting together collectively is a positive thing. There are positives in COP 26 and there were positives in Paris. People elect different leaders-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----who do different things. To pull everybody together in itself is an achievement, and to try to get progress we should try to will it on. Instead, what Deputy Paul Murphy is doing is stoking cynicism day in and day out, which I do not think will advance climate change one iota. He sees this just as another theatre to advance his fundamentalism and his ideological perspective-----

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: I attended a meeting of the European Council on Thursday, 21 October, and Friday, 22 October, in Brussels. The meeting had a very full agenda, touching on some of the most pressing issues facing the Union. We discussed Covid-19, with a particular focus on vaccination rates across the European Union, in the context of rising infection rates in some member states and tackling disinformation...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: It is all sloganeering, as far as I am concerned. We need to get involved in solution mode and the Deputy is not. He is involved in politics and opposition for the sake of it. To respond to Deputy Boyd Barrett's points, we are not speaking from both sides of our mouths. There have been many objections to tree planting in the country, which has held back the growth of forests. There is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: When I research it, it turns out not to be quite the same as the Deputy presented-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: -----but I will pursue the issue he raised. I will seek responses from Coillte in respect of the issue he raised. More generally, the point I am making is that we need to grow far more trees than we are growing in this country. There are too many obstacles in the way of growing trees-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: We passed legislation in this House to try to streamline the planning processes around granting licences for afforestation, and that is the reality. The Deputy needs to be honest about that too and call it out when it comes on his doorstep. I will pursue the issues Deputy Barry raised. I agree no quarter can be given to anybody who would abuse migrant fishers and migrant workers within...