Results 24,741-24,760 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It allows us to continue to trade between Britain and Ireland as we currently do. If one is a farmer or is involved in agrifood-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----has a small or medium enterprise or is an exporter, one will understand why-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----retaining open trade between Britain and Ireland is so important.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: At the moment, what we were seeking, which was in the December agreement, is written into the legal text of the withdrawal agreement. What is currently being negotiated and what phase two is all about is the negotiation of the withdrawal agreement-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----which is legally binding and what was in the agreement in December is now written into the legal text of the withdrawal agreement. As I said in December, phase one was only phase one. It was the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We need to remain vigilant and engaged.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I assure Deputies that we have been vigilant and engaged all along. Our objective in phase two, as I said at the time, was to make sure that what is in the December joint report is written into the legal text of the legal agreement in the withdrawal agreement in full. We have very strong support from the EU 27.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I am always involved in the cauldron of debates but when one is trying to answer the questions raised-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: No preparations or plans have been made with respect to a visit to Ireland by President Trump.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 91 and 92 together. Staff in the Strategic Communications Unit in my Department have had several meetings with senior officials in the relevant Departments across Government to coordinate a comprehensive public information campaign for Project Ireland 2040 - the National Development Plan and the National Planning Framework. As with all cross-Government...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: As at 31 January 2018, there were fifteen staff working in the Strategic Communications Unit, the breakdown of which is set out in the following table. Grade Number Director 1 Principal Officer 1 Assistant Principal 4 Higher Executive Officer 1 Higher Executive Officer equivalent (Acting) 1 Administrative Officer 3 Communications & Media Assistant 3 Clerical Officer 1 The...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The following tables detail expenditure by my Department on photography, public relations and communications advice, for the years 2016, 2017 and to the end of January, 2018. 2016 - PHOTOGRAPHY Company Detail Amount Maxwell Photography Supply of Jpeg Images of Ceann Comhairle with Queen, taken during her visit to Ireland in 2011 - January 2016 €17.22 Maxwell Photography Photography...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Brexit is a complicated negotiation, but our objectives are very simple. Our first and overriding objective is to ensure that we continue to have free movement of people and free trade, not just North and South, but also between Britain and Ireland. The best way for that to be achieved would be for the United Kingdom to stay in the Single Market and the customs union. It has indicated that...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: In relation to what other people may believe or may surmise, I cannot be accountable for that. What I can be accountable for is what is agreed and what is written down in black and white. People can read the December joint report for themselves, and they can also read the guidelines from only two weeks ago, which I have read out to the Deputy today. That is what I will be accountable for -...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----that we trigger the backstop, that we trigger what is there in the joint report from December, which is not just for the transition, but on an ongoing basis, a special unique arrangement-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----for Northern Ireland-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----that maintains full alignment. That is now what we are seeking-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----to be written into the legal text of the withdrawal agreement, but I think if there is a misunderstanding or difference of opinion here, it seems to me that the preferred outcome for Fianna Fáil and the preferred outcome for Sinn Féin is that we only have a special arrangement with Northern Ireland that allows-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----that border to be avoided and that they would be happy to accept-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----a border between Britain and Ireland, barriers to trade between Dublin and Holyhead and between Rosslare and Fishguard. That is what we are trying to avoid.