Results 25,121-25,140 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I do not see any reason-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----why anyone should be unwilling to answer those kinds of questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Many aspersions have been cast on people in the past couple of days.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Aspersions have been cast on the editors of regional newspapers, who have defended themselves today.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Aspersions have been cast on me, on civil servants in my Department and on other public servants. If people are concerned about casting aspersions, they should think about what they say as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: When it comes to casting aspersions, I wish to raise something with Deputy Burton. Last week, we had a finding of defamation against RTÉ after a Labour candidate made defamatory comments about a member of Sinn Féin with regard to their alleged connections with the IRA. In the view of the courts, that was not challenged adequately by the RTÉ presenter at the time. We had a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I am not thin-skinned by any means, but describing the Government, civil servants or any individual as being akin to Nazis, the third Reich or Goebbels is defamatory and beneath the level of discourse that should occur in politics and in this House. I want to put that on the record here. I want to know from Deputy Burton - who has no difficulty going off topic in many questions, as was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: However, this is a reference-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We have seen this from Deputy MacSharry also. This is a reference to the Holocaust.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: This is a reference to 6 million people who were exterminated-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----by the Third Reich and by the Nazis. Belittling the Holocaust and comparing an advertising campaign to the actions of the Nazis and the Third Reich is beneath contempt. I really hope-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I really hope that the Leader of the Opposition will dissociate himself from Deputy MacSharry's earlier remarks. I really hope Deputy Burton will take this opportunity-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----to dissociate herself from the remarks of her party's deputy leader.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Does Deputy Martin associate himself with it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Does Deputy Martin disassociate himself from it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Nearly, every minute, I-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It is welcome that Deputy Micheál Martin has unequivocally dissociated himself from the remarks made by Deputy Marc MacSharry. I am disappointed that Deputy Joan Burton did not do so also. She specifically referred to remarks made in the House. The remarks of Deputy Alan Kelly were made on the "Morning Ireland" RTÉ radio programme rather than in the House and I am sorry that she...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: There will be ample opportunities between now and the next Question Time for the Deputy to listen to the radio interview she claims not to have heard or to read the coverage of it which she claims she has not seen. It is to be hoped there will be time between now and next Tuesday or Wednesday for her to inform herself of what her deputy leader said, reflect on it and, it is to be hoped, do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: On the basic rules and principles that should apply, I have made it clear that any commercial content should be clearly identifiable as having been sponsored and as commercial content.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I have made that instruction clear to the staff of my Department. If it needs to be made clearer, so be it. Such content may need to state it is a sponsored advertisement or an advertorial. I have no difficulty with that. I have previously stated a person being interviewed for a commercial feature should be told that is the case.