Results 22,561-22,580 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----just because those regimes style themselves as left-wing. It is the hypocrisy I find hard to accept.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I am glad the Deputies do not deny that they do it, because they evidently do in the fact that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputies know the point I am making.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Never have any shame in shouting people down when one cannot bear to listen to other people and listen to the truth.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: This is the kind of thing that regimes like Cuba and Venezuela do. They try to suppress-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Once again, the truth hurts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: That is on display today. This is the classic tactic of shouting someone down when one does not agree with someone. I agree with the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty. It is the standard tactic of the left to ascribe beliefs and opinions to others that they do not hold-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----and then attack them for holding those opinions they do not hold. It is a regular tactic of the left to tell someone what they think and what they believe and then attack them for those.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I was mid-answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I was trying to answer, but as is so often the case within 15 seconds I was interrupted and shouted down. I do not think I shouted down anyone or interrupted. Those are the tactics that we have become too tolerant of in this House. To answer Deputy McDonald's question about the undocumented Irish, that issue remains at the top of our priorities in terms of our engagement with the United...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I have no update on the position of ambassador. A name has been mentioned and the Deputy has seen that name in the press but that person has yet to be formally nominated or to go to confirmation. In the meantime the chargé d'affaires is acting-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: If the name has been withdrawn the chargé d'affaires is working actively in lieu of the ambassador. It is very hard to talk about a phone call that has not happened yet.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: We had a great debate yesterday at my meeting with Teresa May which I think ran for just under an hour but we had two hours of questions on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: That is fair enough. I am happy to answer those questions but it is my intention initially to speak about the long-standing links that exist between the two countries and mention as many other issues as I possibly can but free trade is certainly one that I would like to mention and to restate Ireland's and the European Union's commitment to free trade and opposition to protectionism which...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5, 6 and 7 together. A Programme for a Partnership Government, published in May 2016, sets out the agreement between the parties and Deputies who are participating in, or supporting, the Government. Independent Deputies brought their own vision and ideas to that programme, to how our country should be governed and how we need to deal with the myriad...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: In response to the question about Deputy Lowry there is no agreement between my party and Deputy Lowry. We did speak by telephone on two occasions in the run up to the vote for the Taoiseach and for the new Cabinet. He is free to contact Ministers directly about matters that are in the programme for Government or constituency issues but he has not sought any particular commitments in that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I cannot speak for everyone else in government but certainly in my year as Minister for Social Protection I would have been regularly in contact with Deputy Mattie McGrath on particular queries he had relating to social protection-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: ----- and he was afforded the same courtesy as was extended to other Independent Deputies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The interim report was a long time coming. The decision that we would open six Garda stations on a pilot basis and that there would be a review of the Garda stations that were closed was made over a year ago. That interim report was a long time coming and it recommends six new Garda stations, some brand new and some old ones being reopened such as Rush and Leighlinbridge in County Carlow,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy will have to ask her.