Results 181-200 of 1,163,308 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Violet-Anne Wynne OR speaker:Cathal Crowe OR speaker:Mattie McGrath OR speaker:Jack Chambers OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Holly Cairns OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Martin Browne OR speaker:Matt Shanahan OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Seán Crowe OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:Brendan Howlin OR speaker:Seán Fleming OR speaker:Catherine Connolly OR speaker:Seán Canney OR speaker:Catherine Martin OR speaker:Steven Matthews OR speaker:Joe McHugh OR speaker:Patricia Ryan OR speaker:Réada Cronin OR speaker:Seán Sherlock OR speaker:Martin Kenny OR speaker:John Lahart OR speaker:Jackie Cahill OR speaker:Róisín Shortall OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Maurice Quinlivan OR speaker:Patrick O'Donovan OR speaker:Pearse Doherty)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Let me take the issue. There is an allocation to social protection that goes into the various schemes to do with fuel poverty and that is very clear in terms of what we have done on the fuel allowance.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Freagair an cheist.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am answering the question. The retrofitting has been an enormous allocation-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the missing money?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and has come from the carbon fund. That has also happened in terms of the €113 million in carbon tax funding that has been allocated to agri-environment schemes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the €530 million?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: What we could do, and I invite the Deputy to support me in this because he has genuine concerns about where the funding is going, is legislate to ring-fence the funding.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Ca bhfuil an airgéad?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I think that would satisfy the Deputy's needs but I wonder whether he would be supportive of that if the next Government was to bring in legislation to ring-fence the funding for specific purposes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: What about the missing money?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: There is no missing money. It is all being spent.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It is €530 million according to the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: In what may well be my last Leaders' Questions in the Dáil, I return to familiar territory, an issue I have raised with the Tánaiste and others many times, namely, the delivery of balanced regional development. I understand that the delivery of a balance of development between regions is not something that can be accomplished overnight, particularly when there are significant gaps....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate that the Deputy has been consistent and persistent in addressing the issue of balanced regional development. There are statistics, damned statistics and all the rest.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: Oh-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Hear me out, please. I was in a rural village recently during the local elections. A councillor pointed out to me that the population had gone from about 500 when he went into local government to 2,500 or 3,000, the point being that the place had grown. A lot of rural Ireland has grown in population yet the mantra is a declining rural Ireland. It has elected a lot of Independents to this...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: The Government has led to it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Somehow the truth is not reconciling here because there has been huge development in many parts of the regions. Equally, there have been big investments in Dublin and other urban areas. Post-Covid, it will be very interesting to see what happens because of the development of remote working, rural working hubs and so on. We are now getting a greater concentration of workers outside cities...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: This always happens. The Tánaiste lists a few projects. Of course, I do not dispute that they are happening but he ignores the overall abysmal picture. He ignores the facts and does not deal with them. He does not come back to me and say "Well, Deputy Harkin, actually you are wrong about the completions in housing, wrong about the fact that we do not spend a reasonable amount in the...