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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I commend the Deputy's mastery of alliteration but what he said is not true. The bottom line is-----
- 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: -----that very significant funding has been allocated to retrofitting.
- 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...