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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is not that we will not give one. Have the plans come forward? I will certainly talk to the Minister for Health because they work and they take pressure off the emergency departments.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the Deputy raising the issue and I will talk to the Minister. I think the Deputy said that it was because it was an area of architectural conservation that it could not go ahead.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: That illustrates the importance at times of having areas of conservation to stop that kind of behaviour which would undermine the architectural integrity and heritage of a given town or village. I will certainly speak to the Minister in that respect.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: What I would say to Amy and her husband and Niamh and Anthony is that the Deputy's proposals would make the situation catastrophically worse.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: It would be much worse.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: People would leave the rental market immediately because the Deputy's party is all about control, to the extent that there would be nobody left in the rental market by the time it was finished. They just will not be there. It is evident in terms of the policies. About 4,000 affordable homes were delivered in 2020. That is double. A total of 12,000 social houses were delivered last year....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy's proposals will not sort that out. That is my point.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: They would make it much worse. The Deputy should be more honest about how he articulates his model but he never does that because it does not suit him politically to do so.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: Exactly. That is where the Deputy wants to be. He is not really interested in going through the bricks and mortar of getting houses built. That is not his interest. It is electoral-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is the old line.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: We are interested in getting houses built unlike the Deputy. We need more honesty from him. Tell the people what he really believes in.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: That would stop housing development after housing development in Dublin.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: Cén-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: Tá brón orm. Tá canúint Dhún na nGall ag an Teachta agus is é canúint Chorca Dhuibhne atá agam féin so bíonn deacrachtaí anois agus arís. Ar dtús báire, déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Teachta Thomas Byrne as ucht a bheith tofa mar Aire Stáit ar a bhfuil freagracht as an nGaeltacht. Tá dúil faoi leith...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising a very serious issue. I will speak to the Ministers with responsibility. We need to accelerate work on coastal protection across the country but obviously in the locality identified by the Deputy as part of a wider national adaptation plan. Climate change is here. It is not something that will happen in 2050 or 2040. It is happening right now. It is...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is very fundamental reform of European migration law and practice. There are legally binding timeframes for making decisions on international protection applications and appeals and a greater focus on efficient returns for unsuccessful applicants and accelerated processing, including for those from safe countries, those with no documents or false documents and those who have crossed...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----that in this Dáil, demonstrable and clear progress has been made on cardiac services and the cath lab, in addition to a wide range of other healthcare services and the broader economic developments in this area.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: The extra staff have been appointed to the cath lab-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and the hours extended. I did not give percentages to the Deputy. Over the five years, €89 million in addition to the base figure has been allocated. I gave the figures in respect of the staff, not percentages, when I said-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----that some 829 additional staff had been appointed-----