Results 121-140 of 1,020,288 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. It is not needed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do not know what the broader view in Clonmel is on that so I will not comment specifically on it. On the borough council - and I do not want to be mischievous as the Ceann Comhairle is looking at me very sharply - I think it was a Labour Party policy at the time-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It has apologised for it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It came forward with the idea. It has changed many years later.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Why do you not bring them back?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It was Deputy Howlin at the time when he was the Minister-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: He apologised for it. Why do you not bring them back?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----possessed with the idea of urban councils.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Why do you not bring them back?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is very hard to bring something back that has been abolished but we should not rule it out. As Deputy McGrath knows, there was a compromise eventually in the form of the municipal groups that have been established. They have begun to assert themselves in respect of a district but it is not the same thing in terms of a town. I also believe in democracy and I believe that people should...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Mortgage holders are facing interest rates of more than 7%. Some households pay thousands of euro more in interest to the banks and the vulture funds. For more than a year, Sinn Féin has been calling for the introduction of mortgage interest relief to support them. The mortgage interest tax credit the Government introduced is simply not working. Of the 700,000 mortgage holders in the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: As Deputy Doherty knows, budget 2024 introduced a series of cost-of-living measures, including income tax, energy credits, increases in social protection payments as well as an increase in the bank levy to €200 million. It also provided for a mortgage interest relief measure to help some borrowers with the increase in interest rates. That took place. It did not cover every situation...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Markets expect the ECB to cut policy interest rates several times this year, with the first cuts-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What is the point of me turning up here? What is the point of turning up if the Tánaiste is not going to answer the questions?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Generally, our cost-of-living measures-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am asking about the Department of Social Protection.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Let me be clear on something.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What is the point?