Results 121-140 of 1,037,846 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:John Brady OR speaker:Michael Lowry OR speaker:Mark Ward) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was grimly amused by the Tánaiste's accusing others of ideological obsessions in response to an earlier question. Surely the ideological obsession that is most evident is that of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to privatise everything that moves, whether it is selling public land to private developers for housing or the issue I want to raise, public service broadcasting. It has...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, I want to make it very clear that there is a fundamental difference between outsourcing and privatisation. Fianna Fáil, by the way, has a very strong record historically of building up State enterprises and did so through various decades-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Carthy: It has some record of selling them off as well.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----particularly during the Seán Lemass era. RTÉ is not for sale. I do not think there is any proposal to put RTÉ on the market-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just "Fair City".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: And "The Late Late Show".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----or on the stock exchange. That is privatisation - let us be clear. Deputy Boyd Barrett is like Don Quixote, tilting at windmills. There is no privatisation. RTÉ is not going to be sold. It is not on the market.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: To whom is it being outsourced? Private companies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Minister and the Government have been clear that they do not want mandatory redundancies. RTÉ has committed to seeking voluntary redundancies. Public funding has increased and the Government will make a decision on the future funding of RTÉ, which has always been part RTÉ licence fee, part Exchequer funding and part commercial revenue. RTÉ has always taken in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So the Government washes its hands of the matter. The Government is responsible for not reining in the obscene salaries, which everybody knew about, at the top of RTÉ, whether it was executives or a tiny number of overpaid presenters. Now, however, the people getting it in the neck are the skilled people - the ordinary workers. They are the ones who will lose their jobs and they will...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: The person will not have to pay €400,000, that is the point. It is already €100,000 below market value. When someone buys that house, they will have acquired a house for €100,000 below the market value. They will have availed of schemes that will increase their capacity to afford that house by about €130,000, if they go the full distance on the first home scheme...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Pearse Doherty: This is ridiculous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, you did not mention once the help to buy scheme. You opposed it from day one. That would benefit anybody buying an affordable house. You have never supported development in Oscar Traynor.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Where are the affordable homes, Tánaiste? Not on Oscar Traynor Road.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: You are obfuscating and prevaricating. You will not accept the basic fact that the schemes the Government has brought in through the first home scheme and the help to buy scheme-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: A price of €400,000 is not affordable.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----significantly improve an individual's or a couple's capacity to make a house affordable, in this case from about €400,000 to €270,000 in terms of the amount that a person would have to pay out. That is significant. That covers right across the board.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: You are just embarrassing yourself now, Tánaiste.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Pearse Doherty: A Cheann Comhairle, you cannot accept that these houses are being sold for €270,000. Let us fact-check it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Resume your seat, Deputy Doherty.