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Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...project relates to critical seabed infrastructure protection, CSIP. This is an opportunity for Ireland to build capability to address identified risks and areas of vulnerability. I have made it clear previously that this is a project in which we should be engaging. As an island nation, we have to tap into any and every opportunity available to build capabilities in the protection of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Just hear me out for a second now. That was in the middle of the bush and that gave water on tap to 3,000 villagers. It was not on tap in their individual huts but in the square that serviced 3,000 people. A consequence of that was the girls did not have to lose time in school because it is the girls who traditionally go and collect the water. Now they can go to school as the water is on...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...clip of a television interview with two Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas about Ireland's foreign and security policy. The interviewer started the interview by asking whether Ireland should tap into the potential of our neutrality as a peacemaker or whether we were a staunch US ally that would not question US foreign policy. With all due respect to the interviewer, this is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...a very commendable scheme. Many community schemes are doing great work like that. There is a variety of localised funding from the Department of Rural and Community Development that people could tap into. We will follow up with both Ministers to see what can be done. The danger is that once you start formalising grants and so on there is all sorts of bureaucracy and stuff. Whatever...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...In the context of the housing for all strategy, which the Minister is working on and will publish, our overwhelming focus will be on the direct building of social houses. We are in transition now. We simply cannot turn off the tap, when social houses can be provided through this leasing arrangement in the short term to provide for 2,400 families who can avail of social housing through...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...and will make further allocations in that respect. On Deputy Colm Burke's question, because the vaccination programme has been so successful, the types of supports that are available under the TAP scheme are not required as much as they were. I have to make a general point on this. When the summer economic statement is produced by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...We are in a transition phase but the issue the Deputy must address, and she is nodding her head, is that 2,400 social housing units can be provided to families through this leasing right now. The tap cannot just be turned off immediately. We can move and transition to different models, which is what I want and which will be reflected in the housing for all strategy, but is the Deputy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...available for investment aimed at assisting artisan, micro and small food businesses to respond to challenges posed by Brexit. I will speak to the Minister about the Deputy's request for additional funding for 2022. With regard to the cessation of TAPS, I have dealt with it previously. There are facilities and there will be support for any outbreak that happens in a nursing home over...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)

Micheál Martin: With regard to Deputy Canney's point on LEADER, I will engage with the Minister again to see what can be done. With regard to the TAP scheme, the vaccination programme has been very effective in nursing homes and very effective overall in terms of those aged over 65. The prospect has been raised that if we have very high volumes of infection as a result of the Delta variant in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...when they occur, contributions towards the costs of maintaining isolation rooms, and a once-off contribution towards temporary visiting infrastructure during winter 2020. The cessation of TAPS has been communicated with all stakeholders. As of 11 June about 7,148 claims had been submitted and €134.5 million has been allocated or made available under the scheme. It has always...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...installed in bathrooms, increasing staff awareness and promoting positive behaviours, elimination of single use plastics and single use drinking cups, installation of mains drinking water, sensor taps installed in main bathroom areas, and brown waste bins and recycling stations installed. My Department also reports annually on energy efficiency initiatives and savings achieved through the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...that took a different approach. Ultimately, the role of Government is to protect lives and public health to the very best of its ability. In terms of the nursing homes scheme, and the TAPS in particular, the first point I have to make is that the results from the vaccination programme have been very significant in terms of nursing homes, with a reduction almost to the point of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 May 2021)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy. It is important to point out that according to the most recently available HSE data from 10 May, more than 6,675 applications have been processed under TAPS and €93.9 million in direct financial support has been provided to the nursing home sector. In total, €42 million has been made available for this year while €92 million was provided in 2020....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...of Covid-19, significant supports have been provided to nursing homes by the State during the crisis. Some €90 million was provided last year through the temporary assistance payment scheme, TAPS. That scheme was made available in 2020 and provides a range of supports to the nursing home sector, from PPE to infection prevention, control supports, training and financial supports....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...people to develop buildings and residential homes within town centres. Over €1 billion will be spent on rural regeneration over the next ten years. The north west has been effective in tapping into quite a number of funding streams and has had a number of projects sanctioned arising out of such funds. Fundamentally, we must build on our strengths in rural areas, such as the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: ...about the level of capacity behind the effort both diplomatically and in key areas, as well as in regard to bringing back people who have a lot of experience with Europe. It seems to me we should tap into that experience, particularly that of former diplomats, former civil servants and people in the private sector who could give advice to the Government. The Taoiseach will have...

Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)

Micheál Martin: We learned, for example, that the average cost will be between €250 and €300 and that the free allowance will consist of a seven minute power shower, a three minute tap run to brush one's teeth and two flushes of the toilet and that is basically it. That is the level of detail that was available this morning. There will be an annual standing charge, we were told, applying to...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste knows a lot about taps going on and off.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government could turn off a couple of taps.

Written Answers — International Relations: International Relations (6 Jul 2010)

Micheál Martin: ...China the continent's second largest trading partner after the US. China shares with other major economic powers a desire to gain access to natural resources, but also important is the desire to tap Africa's huge market of one billion people. This is testament to the enormous economic potential of Africa, which is now the third fastest growing region in the world, after China and India....