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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Budgets (26 Jul 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 48, 53 and 55 together. Expenditure by my Department up to end-June 2017 amounted to €15.63m which represents 77% of profiled expenditure for the year to date. My Department has no capital funding. Significant elements of the Department's expenditure is outside of its direct control, for example, the Moriarty Tribunal of Inquiry and three Commissions...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Irish Communities Abroad (26 Jul 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I spoke with President Trump by phone on Tuesday 27th June. It was a short congratulatory call, during which I raised a number of issues including the situation of the up to 50,000 undocumented Irish in the US. I look forward to having an opportunity to discuss this issue with President Trump in more detail in due course.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Funding (26 Jul 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) is the only body under the remit of my Department. It is the body corporate for the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), which advises me on strategic policy issues relating to sustainable economic, social and environmental development. NESDO has been allocated a grant of just over €2 million from my Department's Vote...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (26 Jul 2017)

Leo Varadkar: No staff working in my Department are suspended from work on full pay.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Protected Disclosures Data (26 Jul 2017)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has received no disclosures from its employees or former employees in 2016 or to date in 2017 under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (26 Jul 2017)

Leo Varadkar: There is no one working as an actuary in my Department or in the National Economic and Social Development Office, which comes under the aegis of my Department.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I want to start by saying some words about Jimmy Magee. It was with great sadness that we all learned today of the death of this iconic sports commentator. His commentaries were legendary and based on a breadth of knowledge of sport that was peerless. He also had an innate sense of timing, which often meant that his descriptions of events became as memorable as the events themselves. He...

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: We are making real progress as evidenced in the fact, as I mentioned earlier, that today 80 people and their families will be housed by the State and that there will be 21,000 new tenancies this year.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: There are 21,000 additional individuals and their families who are being housed this year.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: In some cases they are people-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I see that we are going to have a repeat of the same pattern whereby Deputies will be allowed to ask questions and will be treated with respect but the minute someone gives a reply that they do not want to hear, one will be interrupted right away.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: We will have 21,000 individuals and families housed this year. In some cases, people will be moving into newly built council houses, while in others they wil be moving into voids that have been brought back into use. Others will be housed through the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme which Deputy Micheál Martin's party supported, or the rent supplement scheme. There is a...

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy will appreciate that I am unable to comment on individual cases on which I do not have the details and that even if I do have the details of individual cases it is not possible for me to breach client or patient confidentiality without the permission of the client or patient to do so. That said, in regard to the case of Caoimh, the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, and the...

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: We all believe in equal rights for people with disabilities. I will give the Deputy an example of what the Government has done just in the year gone by to improve the rights of and the support available to people with disabilities. We all believe in supporting the families concerned, whether it be through the provision of medical cards, increases in welfare payments, employment...

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Let us consider the service deficits in Northern Ireland in terms of the cutbacks social care trusts are making in Northern Ireland. I do not accuse the Deputy of being uncaring or heartless because of the challenges faced in Northern Ireland, nor do I accuse him of abdicating his responsibility to look after people in Belfast or Derry.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I have talked about the real progress made already and commit to making further progress in the years ahead.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I should first state clearly that the budget has not yet been written or agreed to. It is still under negotiation, particularly among Ministers. The phoney debate, if there is to be one, is the one the Deputy wants to have, which is that budgetary policy is solely a trade-off between tax reductions and spending increases and, of course, the phoney debate that assumes that spending...

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: -----and because of the growth in employment and salaries in the past year or so, we can do three things in the budget and we intend to do them. The first is to balance the books. For the first time in ten years, we will produce a budget which will balance the books. That may not be a politically popular thing to do, but it is the most important thing to do because when an economy is...

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: It is always a sign that one is on weak ground when one has to misrepresent somebody's position to make an argument. I merely pointed to the nonsense of the Deputy's point about having tax reductions for people who do not pay tax or who at least do not pay income tax or USC.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: It is not possible to reduce USC or income tax for the 30% of people who pay nothing------