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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.

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

Peter Fitzpatrick: As recently as five years ago, Ireland was being celebrated within the EU for road safety following a reduction in fatalities of over 40% yet this week Ireland's road death toll hit 100 people, meaning the overall number is now 14% higher than last year and we are just over halfway through the year. The year 2024 is on course to prove the most lethal for traffic fatalities in 15 years. ...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Outrageous.

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

Micheál Martin: -----grant of €420,000 per dwelling; grant rates in keeping with advice from the Society of Chartered Surveyors; and a Government guarantee in the form of a second grant option, if required, for a period of up to 40 years. That was not in the previous scheme, which Deputy Mac Lochlainn was happy with.

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

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

Micheál Martin: The new scheme includes a revised application process, which removes the financial barrier to scheme entry; an independent appeals process for applicants; and alternative accommodation and storage costs and immediate repair works to the maximum value of €25,000, which people had asked for. It provides for the expertise of the Housing Agency in assessing applications, the inclusion of...

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

Pearse Doherty: Homeowners are telling the Tánaiste that the scheme is not working. That is the nuts and bolts of this. Everybody can tell you this. Some 1,300 people turned up in Inishowen and 500 turned up in Mayo to tell us the scheme is not working. The scheme is not working. It locks people out. I have the Attorney General's advice with me. His advice was very clearly aimed at keeping people...

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

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Deputy. Táimid thar am.

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

Pearse Doherty: I put it to the Tánaiste, three years on, that the Government has locked thousands of people out of this scheme.

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

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Deputy. You are over time.

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

Pearse Doherty: Three years on, what has the Government done to pursue the wrongdoers, the block manufacturers and the quarry manufacturers that the Attorney General told it to pursue urgently?

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

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

Catherine Connolly: Deputy Doherty went over his time. I do not mind a little leniency, but we are going to have to comply with the rules.

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

Micheál Martin: First of all, we have locked nobody out of this scheme. Sinn Féin, and Deputy Mac Lochlainn in particular, gave an admittedly cautious welcome to the previous scheme in January 2020.

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: So did the campaigners. So did you.

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

Micheál Martin: That scheme compares in no shape or form to the new scheme that this Government introduced.

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

Mattie McGrath: Protect your friends.

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

Micheál Martin: Our scheme is far more comprehensive and far more expansive. It deals with all of the issues that were all of the issues raised with me when I first met with the group. The policy response has been a very generous one. There has to be an evidence-based approach to it. The Society of Chartered Surveyors was brought in to look at the costs and all of the implications and to make provision....

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

Pearse Doherty: Answer the question about the Attorney General.