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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Doherty is not answering the question. Sit down.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I am not misleading the Dáil at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Doherty did.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The fundamental point I am making is that the figures the Deputy is making a big song and dance about were published, not by the Department of Finance, but by the Central Bank in September. The Deputy and I knew them, but we had other figures saying they would be higher. The Central Bank-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Doherty was not asking the question. It was the Social Democrats.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The point I am trying to make to the Deputy is there were different estimates and so on about targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The previous year, the Central Bank underestimated what we would increase by.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: In terms of the individual summaries Ministers get, many were referring to the Central Bank's reports.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Others were referring to EUROCONSTRUCT-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is this-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----the only way you ultimately find out is in the first quarter of the following year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The first quarter of the following year, you get the data.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: In previous years, people said we would not reach our targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: We actually exceeded them. Some of the estimates, even from official circles, were wrong-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----for the previous year. There was no-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I repeat this-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: There was no attempt to knowingly mislead the people on any of this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: We have worked extremely hard on the housing question. It is our number one priority. It will remain our number one priority.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The focus has to be on how we get those numbers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy attacks because the target last year was not met. When the target was exceeded in 2022 and 2023, the Deputy's line was that the targets were not high enough. No matter what target gets set in here, the Deputy will always find a way to say that the Government is either not setting a target high enough, or if it exceeds it, it clearly did not set it high enough, and so forth. Now...