Results 13,361-13,380 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----was being divisive as always and only wanted to provide relief for renters and did not want to provide relief for people who are paying down mortgages, paying childcare or raising money for a deposit. I want to raise something important. Sinn Féin likes to talk a lot about housing, but let us look at its record.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Only this week-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Only this week, on South Dublin County Council, a vote was taken to build 1,100 new homes in Kilcarbery-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----comprising 400 social homes for people on the housing list in Tallaght, Clondalkin and Lucan and 700 homes for young people who want to buy and who are currently paying more in rent than they would pay on a mortgage. Sinn Féin voted against this. It required Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party to vote it through.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Therefore, if Sinn Féin genuinely-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Sinn Féin voted against 1,100 houses - 400 social and 700 houses for purchase. It should be borne in mind that people are paying more-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----in rent now than they would pay on a mortgage.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: These houses are affordable. I urge Sinn Féin-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----to stop voting down housing for ideological reasons and holding up housing for political reasons. To answer Deputy McDonald's question, there is no agreement on amendments to the finance Bill in respect of that issue.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Primary legislation is required to establish this rainy fund, and I believe that will be the opportunity for the House to engage in detail on how it will operate. I am not in a position to answer all the questions the Deputy asked today, at least not until such time as-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----we have the legislation. Obviously, the legislation will have to be put in place before we put any money into the fund, so the Deputy will have ample opportunity to examine it when we have the primary legislation. The concept, though, I can explain. It is to take €1.5 billion currently in ISIF, use it to establish the rainy day fund and add €500 million to it from tax...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----of €1.5 billion from ISIF, with €500 million added every year from corporate tax revenue. If we run into economic problems, whether as a consequence of Brexit next year, changes to international taxation, trade wars or anything else that could tip our country into a downturn, a recession, I want to have a fund available that we can use to stimulate the economy. I do not...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----in this regard, by the way. I want us to break out once and for all of this boom-and-bust cycle that we have in Ireland. What we should be able to do in times when the economy is growing well, tax receipts are buoyant and we have full employment is balance the books and put money aside that we can then use to stimulate the economy if there is another downturn, if there is a slowdown or...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy has a history in this Dáil of making allegations against Ministers and claiming that things are not credible. He said the same about the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, and about me in regard to CervicalCheck, yet the Scally report proves that what Deputy Martin believed incredible was credible. He made allegations regarding the former Minister for Justice and Equality,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----provided it conferred no advantage on Mr. McCourt. Deputy Naughten is the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. Are we really saying that over a two or three-year period as Minister, it would not be acceptable for him to meet the CEOs of Eir, SSE Airtricity, SIRO-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Does the Deputy propose that over a two or three-year period the Minister would not have any engagement with anyone involved in the sector? Perhaps he should not meet the chairman of RTÉ or TG4 when decisions are made about the funding of those bodies. Perhaps he should not meet any CEO in the entire industry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: No, but it gets millions of euro in State funding.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I join in offering condolences to the family and friends of Ms Emma Mhic Mhathúna, particularly her five children Natasha, James, Mario, Oisin and Donnacha who, obviously, are foremost in our minds today. Like all Members, I am filled with sorrow that she has passed on at such a young age. I did not know her but, like many people, feel as though I did. She fought like a lioness to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It delivers enough money to take 5,000 adults and their children out of homelessness next year. It provides for the addition of 10,000 houses to the social housing stock. It provides for an affordability scheme comprising 6,000 homes over three years, provided under shared equity. It provides for an expansion of the family hub programme in order that fewer families must spend time in hotels...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Government is very committed to the national broadband plan, NBP.