Results 401-420 of 1,051,249 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue OR speaker:Richard O'Donoghue OR speaker:James O'Connor) in 'Committee meetings'
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin would destroy the prospects of first-time buyers.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Social housing. What about that, Micheál?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: This budget is particularly significant - through the Chair, if I could -
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: Just one speaker, Deputy Stanley.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He is doing a speech for Sinn Féin. He needs to finish it now.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: They do not want to hear it.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: They do not want to hear the truth.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why are you-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: Deputy Mac Lochlainn, there is one speaker please. Le do thoil.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is Sinn Féin would screw first-time buyers. It would destroy them. It would get rid of help-to-buy and the first home schemes, the grants and would take away any support and assistance that is currently there. What we are saying to first-time buyers is that the help-to-buy scheme will be there until 2029. They can plan with certainty, save with certainty and be in a...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is actually mental.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: By investing a further €1.2 billion we are putting it up to Sinn Féin, which has said it will get rid of the Land Development Agency or transform it and change it. Waste more time is what Sinn Féin would do. We have built the foundations for housing delivery in this country, including the Land Development Agency, but Sinn Féin wants to go back to the drawing board in a...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, homelessness and dereliction. First-time buyer-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of getting houses built.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Fianna Fáil way-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Of course, we do not need to look in the crystal ball when it comes to Sinn Féin's housing policy. All we have to do is look at its abject failing on housing in Northern Ireland where there is no action, no increase in home building and no expansion in social or affordable housing. Next year, we will see new records on home building in critical sectors in this country, and a further...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This should be on their budget.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----which claim that nothing positive has ever happened in our country and that just demanding more of everything is the answer. Even during the pandemic, the addiction to destructive opposition showed itself repeatedly. Every measure we introduced to help workers and businesses was attacked as paltry and when we had to end emergency measures, we were attacked again. We saw another level...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is this speech on the budget?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: In response to a balanced, ambitious and progressive-----