Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government Dail Éireann — 2022-12-17 ============================================================ Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central -----in trading both elected and ministerial offices in Stormont. When Deputy McDonald claims, as she did with energy earlier today, that we claim everything is fine and want to change nothing, she is, of course, ignoring everything we have been saying. We very acutely understand the need to provide more housing for people to rent or buy. We see that people need help with rising bills or access to essential health services. However, unlike Deputy McDonald, we believe in taking action. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2022-12-17/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:27+00:00 Sitting date: 2022-12-17