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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: The fundamental difference between the Government and the Opposition is that we are action-focused and get things done on housing. I do not like to put this to the Deputy but I have seen nothing in the Labour Party's policy proposals on housing that would build anything extra. All the policy instincts of the Opposition is to oppose any measure the Government has introduced in the past six...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is rubbish.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Government is simply saying we are maintaining and increasing public investment in housing from the State, the largest actor in housing right now, while also creating the conditions to facilitate far greater private sector investment in house building and apartment building in particular, which needs to increase. The fundamental way to deal with housing is to increase supply...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We do not want to set up a new State agency.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: You do; you said it in your manifesto and you doubled down on it only last week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: You misread it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: If one looks at first-time buyers, for example, the percentage of first-time buyers has been steadily increasing, from about 25% of all purchases in 2015 to just under 40% in April 2025. Real progress has been made, through the help to buy scheme and first home scheme, in enabling first-time buyers to get into the market and get their first homes. About 119,000 first-time buyer mortgages...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: Thank you, Taoiseach. I call Deputy Bacik to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have not even started yet on the range of measures we have taken in the past number of months.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I am not hearing any acceptance of responsibility. The Taoiseach leads the Government. His party has the housing Ministry, and yet every time any of us in opposition raises the housing crisis with the Taoiseach, he seeks to deflect responsibility, putting it back on the Opposition and suggesting we have no policy. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am very proud of the Labour...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: As the Dáil prepares to rise now for the summer, the thing on everybody's mind is runaway prices and the sky-high cost of living. Working households really struggle now to make ends meet and they hear from the Taoiseach time and again as he digs in and refuses to include a cost-of-living package in October's budget. Today, a report published by the Irish League of Credit Unions reveals...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: Ní aontaím leis an Teachta mar-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ní haon rud nua é sin.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: Admhaím go bhfuil brú. Gan amhras, tá brú ar dhaoine agus ar chosmhuintir na tíre maidir leis an gcostas maireachtála. Tá an-chuid déanta ag an Rialtas go dtí seo chun an brú sin a ísliú. An rud is tábhachtaí sna míonna atá le teacht ná cinneadh a dhéanamh infheistíocht a chur isteach in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: That is a new excuse.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: We are well-placed to deal with it because of the surpluses we have and so on. We have taken fundamental measures such as the free book scheme, which Sinn Féin never mentions for some reason. That was a game-changer in terms of the costs that people have going back to school.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The credit unions did that before.