Results 261-280 of 1,041,546 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív OR speaker:Pat Buckley OR speaker:Cathal Crowe OR speaker:Thomas Gould) in 'Committee meetings'

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the very serious issue of road safety. We have all been shocked by the recent loss of life on our roads and concerned by the worrying increase in road fatalities. Some 188 road fatalities occurred in 2023. As of 11 July 2024, there have been 101 such fatalities, which is up by approximately 14 on the same period last year. We need a multifaceted response....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Our roads are not safe. I ask the Tánaiste to please listen. Our footpaths are not safe. You cannot even go on a footpath now because of e-scooters and bicycles. Our loved ones are passing away. These are things that can be prevented. On behaviour, when the Tánaiste and I were children - we are roughly the same age - we could go out our front doors and play a bit of football...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: Behaviour is at the centre of this. The Deputy referenced an earlier era, although we sometimes look back with rose-tinted glasses at the seventies and so on. More people were killed on our roads then, when there were far fewer cars, than today, which speaks to that era and its lack of proactive safety measures. That is why what we did in the late nineties and early 2000s in particular,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: In 2020, people got 16.5 gallons of fuel for €100. Today, that same 16.5 gallons of fuel costs €139.42. In 2020, per €100 of fuel, the Government took €45 in tax on diesel and €50 in tax on petrol. Today, the Government is taking €62.74 in tax on diesel and €69.71 in tax on petrol. For a gallon of fuel, which is the same product we are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue, which has a number of elements. One is the petrol and diesel excise rates and VAT on hospitality is another. The Government is acutely aware of the impacts of energy price inflation and the broader cost-of-living crisis on households and businesses. Perhaps the Deputy did not get an opportunity to dwell on the work that the Government has done. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: Because that would make the situation even worse. Supply is the key. First, I acknowledge that, without question, homelessness and emergency accommodation can be very detrimental to children's health and to people's health in general, but particularly for children. There is no argument there. The response is not one of the norm. Rather, it is one of a multifaceted approach to prevent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: This week a primary school teacher told me about an incredibly upsetting incident in their classroom where they asked the children to draw out their house and mark the name of the rooms as Gaeilge and one child got very upset and whispered to their teacher that they could not do the exercise because they did not have a home. That is one of the 4,316 children who are homeless. The damage...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: I do not dismiss anyone's arguments. I do not dismiss any issue. There should be an acceptance and an acknowledgement that elected representatives in this House, irrespective of party, have the same degree of concern and urgency about the homelessness crisis and housing crisis as the Deputy or anybody else does.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: We do not have the same degree of responsibility the Tánaiste does. That is a nonsense thing to say.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Housing Commission report, for example-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Which the Government is sitting on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----talks about the reactive policies of the Oireachtas and Governments to the rental market. I would include the policies of the Deputy's party as part of that reactive approach-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: How is Ireland different to the rest of Europe?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----which would reduce the amount of rental properties available, which would make the housing-supply problem worse and which would make the homelessness issue worse. We have witnessed over the past while an increased number of people with houses for rent exiting the rental market or pulling out because of the kind of initiatives and proposals that the Deputy has put forward.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, because of your policies.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: We need to expand the rental market, and the supply in the rental market, not depress it-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste. Táimid thar am.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----and we need to do that on a number of fronts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Opposition is in charge now.