Results 24,761-24,780 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We do not want borders east-west any more than we want borders North or South.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I do not want a border between Dundalk and Newry any more than I want a border between Dublin and Holyhead or between Rosslare and Fishguard. Of course we are trying to get to a point, working with the British and negotiating as part of the European Union, where we avoid new barriers to trade and new barriers to the movement between Britain and Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: That backstop is there. We are insisting that the backstop be written into the withdrawal agreement.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The guidelines we have from two weeks ago allow for that.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputies have been pretty unsupportive, quite frankly.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The way legislation works is that it has to pass through both Houses of the Oireachtas and then be signed by the President before it becomes law. Legislation in the Seanad is not the law. There is no requirement that either the national planning framework or the ten-year infrastructure investment plan be subject to a vote of either House.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: They are Government decisions as they were in the past and will be Government decisions on Friday. Rather than talking about procedure, we should go back to first principles and ask ourselves why we need Ireland 2040-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----a ten-year infrastructure investment plan or a national planning framework. It is because we need to change what has been done in the past. We need to not repeat the planning mistakes made by others in the past. We need to make sure the trajectory of development in this country changes. We are projecting that there will be an extra million people living in Ireland by 2040. We need...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----and some other major towns to grow at a faster rate than Dublin, which is something that has not happened for decades or centuries. In order to do that we need to support those cities and large towns to unlock development sites particularly at their centre, places like the north quays in Waterford, Tivoli on the docks in Cork-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----Limerick 2030 and the inner harbour in Galway.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I did answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It also provides for the ongoing growth in Dublin because Dublin will continue to grow, just not as fast-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----as it did in the past. It will no longer suck in other counties or-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----spread out into other counties. Dublin needs to grow up rather than out.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I have straight answers for the Deputy. First, we have no arrangement or understanding with Fianna Fáil on this matter. Second, the legislation the Deputy referred to is not the law. There is no plan to have it signed by the President next week nor was there ever. We were going to publish this plan before the end of last year. That was the commitment I gave last June. We should...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We got held up with other issues. The legislation the Deputy refers to does not say the final plan has to be approved by the Houses of the Oireachtas. What it says is that Government shall submit the draft of the revised or new national planning framework together with the environmental report and appropriate assessment report for the approval of each House of the Oireachtas before it is...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The requirement-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The requirement is that the draft be put before the House; D-R-A-F-T, not the final draft.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: This is a classic case of opposition for opposition's sake.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It is a case of political parties, for political reasons, opposing a plan they have not even seen yet.