Results 41-60 of 46,698 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have no problem buying eggs from the local person who produces them in Ballycotton. That is supporting local people in our communities who are doing an extra bit of work like that and keeping the local economy working as best we can.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have acknowledged the increase in food prices, as well as the cost of energy. That is why we did some unprecedented stuff in respect of giving people money back to try to deal with the undoubted increase in the cost of living. That is why the €400 lump-sum, once-off working family payments were made to 45,000 families with 97,000 children. A total of 409,000 households got a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy should acknowledge that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, we have a very extensive tenant in situ programme. It has been very effective.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, introduced it approximately two years ago. It has been very successful and effective in preventing evictions by giving the option of going to the seller and saying the council will buy the house, thereby enabling the person living there to continue as a tenant of the council. It has been very effective, with up to 1,800 approvals so far. I will get the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do not think the commission is recommending no-fault evictions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is not what it says in the report. One of its recommendations is: Regulate market rents fairly and effectively by reforming the current system of rent regulation and establishing a system of ‘Reference Rents’. This reform should be informed by evidence-based reviews on the impact of regulated market rents on rented housing supply, accessibility and affordability. Such...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes, and I have gone through the recommendations for the rental sector. I do not see any reference to a ban on no-fault evictions. It seems that the commission wants a significant reform of the existing rental market regulation. That will take significant work. Meanwhile, the Government is absolutely committed to the tenantin situscheme, as we have demonstrated by buying houses where...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did say earlier, as the Deputy himself referenced, there is a very significant recruitment campaign, which so far as resulted in 165 new job offers for CDNT teams.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is so far, and the HSE is going to repeat the recruitment campaign with a view to offering more positions in this area, to ultimately properly resource the CDNT teams. I also believe we need to look at it from a human resources management perspective to make sure that people recruited into the CDNT teams have an environment that is conducive, which incentivises them and makes for a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, I do not eulogise capitalism. The Deputy says she is for a different system but she probably should be a bit more transparent. She believes in a 100% socialist economic model, which I do not think would have created the full employment that we have in this country today. I point to her approach to multinational companies. Yesterday, she said we should boycott Hewlett-Packard, and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: We need to do more.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, the Deputy is not the only one who goes to the various shops she mentions. She should not create the impression that she is the only person in this House who goes to Tesco. I have been in Tesco. I have been in SuperValu.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, the Deputy made a snide comment. She does not have a monopoly on these things. That is the only point I make. I go to a local market. I mentioned local markets because I thought she would be agreeable that we should look after local producers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy raised an issue on the ventilation grilles, if he remembers, and claimed that tens of millions of euro would be required. It subsequently turned out not to be the case. The point I would make to the Deputy is that inadvertently, whether it is the intention or not-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----Sinn Féin is a pawn now of where the contractor, in my view, wants this to go.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is what is going on here.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The contractor has been delaying and has not been resourcing the project properly or comprehensively. It is hoping there will be this kind of engagement here in Dáil Éireann to keep pressure on the Government and the politicians-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----to yield a bit quicker and give that contractor a bit more in terms of the claims it has made.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is playing that game.