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- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: What other questions?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I cannot answer that but if the Deputy wants to put a parliamentary question to the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, he may do so.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I could not agree more with the Deputy. I believe he is absolutely right. As many communications that can be done electronically by Government should be done so. It is certainly something I will discuss with other Ministers.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It has not come to Cabinet yet. Once it does and once we approve it, we will then be in a position to publish it and have a debate in the House.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy knows, what is being done is an increased provision of social housing, a 15% increase in rent supplement and HAP-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----and also the family hubs are being established.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: To the best of my knowledge, the guidelines cannot be applied retrospectively. They only apply to new applications. Applications made prior to the new guidelines being approved fall under the old guidelines. Obviously, as is the case with any planning issue, there are differences of opinion as to what the guidelines should be, but the new guidelines are as they stand.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I absolutely agree with the Deputy. The waiting times people endure for outpatient appointments and for operations in Ireland make us an outlier in the western world and an outlier in a very bad way. For a country that spends so much on health care, it is almost incomprehensible that we are not able to provide a much better service. I know that the HSE has published its waiting list action...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: No decision has been made on the matter. The money message has not been brought before me.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Bhí an tAire, Teachta Heather Humphreys, tinn inné. She was absent for that reason. Thóg an tAire, Teachta Ó Rinn, na ceisteanna. Níl an teideal nua socraithe ach táim muiníneach go mbeidh "Gaeltacht" i dteideal na Roinne nua.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: May the Minister of State, Deputy Joe McHugh, add to what I have said?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Work on the Bill is under way. Obviously, it is not expected that we will have the heads until after quarter two. As is the case with any legislation, it will not be applied retrospectively. Perhaps this is a matter the Deputy might take up with the Minister.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It is still intended to have that legislation enacted by the end of the session.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It is still being drafted.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I understand a large part of the north west is now covered by agreement from Altnagelvin and Letterkenny hospitals. I appreciate that Sligo is a long way from Derry-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I checked that there was an agreement in place for a certain number of cases per year to be done in Altnagelvin for Donegal.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I appreciate that Sligo is quite a distance from both Derry and Galway. As is always the case with specialist services, one has to balance the ideal of having it near everyone with the reality that, in order to maintain a service to a standard of safety and to staff it, there needs to be a critical mass of population. Such a service would tend to have approximately four centres in a country...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The heads of Bill were agreed by Cabinet in April, but there is still further analysis going on in the Attorney General's office with regard to drafting. A decision has to be made as to whether it might now be more appropriate to transfer valuations from the Department of Justice and Equality to the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 9, inclusive, together. I spoke by phone with the French President, Mr Emmanuel Macron, the Chancellor of Germany, Dr. Angela Merkel, and the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, on 15 June, and with Prime Minister Modi of India on 16 June. In my call with President Macron, we spoke about working together to advance the EU reform agenda,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Deputy Coppinger has no sense of romance.