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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Bríd Smith: Not the inequality. Do not debate the inequality.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I believe the Deputy and others want to bring down that economic model and want to destroy enterprise in this country, which would make more people unemployed, create more poverty and make us all much poorer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Give him a clap, lads.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I feel like I am flogging a dead dog with this one, but anyway, one last time with feeling, I suppose. I recall listening to an interview between Newstalk’s Kieran Cuddihy and the Tánaiste. He kind of caught him off guard by asking why he wanted to be Taoiseach. His answer was simple: "community". I always felt that the Tánaiste uses the term “community” in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising what is the most significant social issue of our generation. This Government, notwithstanding Covid-19, has made very significant progress and initiated a range of actions and initiatives on social and affordable homes of different types and supports for first-time buyers. A total of 125,000 new homes have been built since 2020, notwithstanding the lockdowns....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Holly Cairns: I think the Tánaiste can probably understand why people feel such a huge disconnect between the picture he paints and the reality they experience when they try to buy a home. Every year since the Government has been in office, the cost of an average home has gone up by more than €20,000. I asked the Tánaiste about the delivery of affordable purchase homes and he spent three...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has painted a picture that, I would argue, does not represent the very significant progress that has been made on house building in the past four years. Supply is the key to the cost question-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Joan Collins: It is not. Affordability is.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Affordability is.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt anybody. I would also make the point that the Social Democrats voted against the Affordable Housing Act. The Deputy might understand why we sometimes feel there is a terrible disconnect between what social democratic parties and others articulate about housing in this House when, in practice, outside of the House they do different things. In here, they opposed the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Gary Gannon: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----have voted against housing developments such as Ballymastone in north County Dublin-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----where 1,200 social, affordable, cost-rental, affordable purchase and private homes are now, thankfully, under construction.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: It is not true. We are against the sale of public land to private developers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What about the Tánaiste’s running mate in Cork?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: We oppose vulture funds. That is what we do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Social Democrats opposed that scheme. That is why people do feel, genuinely, that there is a disconnect of the sort Deputy Cairns spoke about, between her party’s actions on the ground and its delivery.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: Do not be so disingenuous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)
Micheál Martin: On the vacancy issue, the initiatives of the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, relating to grants for derelict and vacant homes have been the most effective way of dealing with dereliction. I do not believe you can tax your way to housing supply.