Results 25,821-25,840 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I had a private meeting with the Commissioner on the evening Wednesday, 25 April. We had an exchange of views on a range of issues, including Brexit, reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and the new Multiannual Financial Framework.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: As Deputy Micheál Martin said, new information and revelations continue to become available on this issue. That is exactly why we have established this inquiry, namely, to get to the bottom of this and establish the facts in order that we can put things right to restore confidence in cancer screening. Like other Members, members of the Government are often hearing information that is...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Legal Services Regulatory Authority. These are new laws.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: There is a legislative process which must be undergone and everybody understands that . Legislation must go through the Houses, be enacted and then be commenced. Often a law is enacted and it takes a couple of months, or even longer, for it to be commenced into law.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: In this case, it was part of a major reform introduced by this Government to provide for matters such as pre-action protocols, the Mediation Act, periodic payment orders and-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: With regard to that particular aspect of the reforms brought in by this Government, and I should note that it was not done by previous Governments-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----the new body established to regulate our legal services, the Legal Services Regulatory Authority, is still in its infancy.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It has to be established, a chief executive officer must be appointed and a premises needs to be found. In some cases-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----when it comes to commencing a law, guidelines have to be produced as well. When it comes to voluntary open disclosure provisions, for example, the guidelines-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----have to be developed beforehand.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The most egregious aspect of this whole affair is that important information about women's health was withheld from them, and that was absolutely wrong. We all know that the audit did not commence until these women had already been diagnosed with cancer and were being treated, so providing them with that information would not have impacted on their treatment. However, they should have been...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I said yesterday that I do not believe it is right for any politician or party leader to seek to appoint him or herself as the spokesperson for all the people affected, whether it is the 209 women who are part of this audit, their families or the many hundreds of thousands of women who are concerned about the accuracy of their smear tests. I do not think it is right for any politician to...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: On the questions which Deputy Micheál Martin asked earlier, which I tried to answer between interruptions, the case against the laboratories is something that we very much have under consideration. If there is not a case against the State and the case is against the laboratory-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----a third party or a private body, that creates a difficulty for us, as the State cannot settle or extinguish a case against a third party.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: That is something that we are examining now to see what options are available to us.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: First, I join with others in welcoming the decision taken by Facebook not to allow advertisements relating to the referendum that are paid for by foreign bodies or foreign entities. That is a welcome measure on its part. While Google has gone a bit further and is not accepting advertisements to do with the referendum altogether, I think Facebook has made the right decision to not accept...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I was not aware that Dublin City Council had a role in regulating which posters may be put up and which may not. My local authority in Fingal requires that permission be obtained if one wants to put up a poster advertising a public meeting or such an event outside election time. I had thought it was different during election and referendum campaigns, however, and that all local authorities...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I strongly disagree with the Deputy. He seems to be assuming that the referendum is over and that the proposition will be defeated. I believe that the referendum and campaign are ongoing. I was on the doors in Clonsilla in my constituency as part of a cross-party canvass, listening to people, hearing their views and answering some of their questions. I believe that this referendum will...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Viability, the point at which a baby is viable outside of the womb, is a clinical judgment. It is not as simple as just saying a certain number of weeks so that has to be a clinical judgement for the doctors concerned taking into account the gestation, the size of the foetus and the weight. Taking those three things into account, the two doctors - there must be two doctors, both of whom are...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Leo Varadkar: No legislation is promised.