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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: Having been through this for 20 or 25 years now, I have seen that in all of the various commissions and investigations, lawyers get involved very quickly and it moves very quickly to redress. We do it, and the State owes redress, but the more substantive response in my view is lifelong provision of counselling, housing and supports for people who have been through terrible ordeals in their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I apologise to Deputy Shanahan as I should have called him earlier.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I raise the lack of State delivery to Waterford and the south east. I must first congratulate the Tánaiste on a great European election in Ireland South. Billy Kelleher romping home was expected, but having Cynthia Ní Mhurchú pipping Grace O'Sullivan was somewhat surprising. It must have been very pleasing for the Tánaiste, if not for his Green Party colleagues. Of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: I have listened to the same Leaders' Questions from Deputy Shanahan for four years now. I do not believe he is being fair in his description of the economic, educational or health development and expansion in Waterford. In terms of employment Waterford is in very strong employment. Employment is up 26% across the south east. We are in an era of full employment. Enterprise Ireland client...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I do not want to accuse the Tánaiste, in reading out those statements, of living in a parallel universe when it comes to Waterford but they do not reflect the reality of the situation. Trust and integrity are fundamental parts of what we should be doing in politics. We are not seeing that with regard to the delivery in my city and county. The next day I come in here, maybe I will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: I can only presume from his reply that the Tánaiste did not understand the question or the contribution that I made in the first instance so I will do my best to explain again. We hear more about women being told not to walk home alone at night than we hear about men being told not to assault or rape women who are walking home alone at night so many women decide to take a taxi. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has this tendency to suggest in a very self-righteous way-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Come on, you have been asked about regulation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: Just answer the question. You cannot keep on waffling.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: Through the Chair please.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Stop dodging the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: She has a tendency to suggest in a very self-righteous way that everybody else in the House has a somehow inferior approach to what is a very fundamental issue for all of us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: She asked the Tánaiste to answer the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: Is this Leaders' Questions or is the Tánaiste just commenting on the Deputy?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: I will deal with the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Will the Deputies pleases let the Tánaiste answer?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Blame the person.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Cairns raised the issue of the Defence Forces and I answered on the Defence Forces. She said that it was all talk on this side of the House. I made a response, which I am entitled to make, that it is not all talk. I acknowledged that every Member in the House has a shared objective and I outlined what the Government is doing in response to the Deputy's assertions that it is doing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: That is not true.