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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Correspondence (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is committed to treating all our customers equally and to delivering the highest quality of customer service and has both a Customer Charter and Customer Service Action Plan in place. The Charter and Action Plan are aligned to the wider Public Service as part of the work of Our Public Service 2020, which is the framework for the development and innovation in Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is committed to the promotion of accessibility and universal design principles and Action 15 of my Departments ICT Strategy 2020-2025 reaffirms this commitment. My Department aims to achieve AA standard under WCAG 2.1 guidelines when developing websites or online systems. As part of this commitment, it has begun the process of migrating website content to gov.ie. A review of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is committed to inclusion, with equality of opportunity for all, regardless of disability, gender, civil or family status, sexual orientation, religious belief, age, race or membership of the Traveller Community. In 2018 my Department established a Disability Consultative Committee (DCC), in line with the Government’s ‘National Disability Inclusion Strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The financial assistance which the Government is providing nationally to businesses and workers affected by the pandemic is unprecedented. The Economic Recovery Plan is a €3.5 billion stimulus to fuel the economy and help businesses to recover and rebuild. Across 2020 and 2021, €38 billion was provided to help our people and businesses cope with the pandemic. There will be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Grant Payments (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department’s Regional Enterprise Development Fund (REDF), is a competitive Fund that has been introduced to co-finance the development and implementation of collaborative and innovative enterprise projects that can make a significant impact on enterprise development in the regions so as to help sustain and add to employment at county, regional and national level. There have...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, commonly known as CETA, has provisionally applied since 21st September 2017, meaning a great many of the benefits of this Agreement are already in place. Provisional application is a standard mechanism provided for in the EU’s Free Trade Agreements. This means that those areas where the EU has full competence may be applied...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: A nine-month timed amendment does not mean that nothing can be done for nine months. That is certainly not my interpretation of what a timed amendment means. It is prudent to ask the Central Bank for a view on the legislation. We have accepted legislation Deputy Doherty has proposed on consumer contracts and we are open to accepting the legislation he is proposing now. However, as is the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Once again, I congratulate the Deputy on her election to Dáil Éireann. Her arrival in this House is long overdue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: It might be said that she played the long game, and sometimes that is the most successful strategy to adopt. I am also very pleased as a Trinity graduate to welcome her to the House and sorry to lose her from the Seanad's Trinity constituency. I am sure there will be an interesting contest for that by-election. I believe it has already begun. As for the wider issues, as Minister for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Even the Catholic Church would consider it a long time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: It is important to say that negotiations are still under way and are about to resume soon. We are not ruling out CPO as an option but we need to understand that the outcome of a CPO process is not guaranteed and would certainly result in delay, with additional costs, if it is successful, on top of those the Deputy mentioned. Sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the good, and we need to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I think we will all agree our healthcare workers have done an amazing job throughout the pandemic so far. We can be very proud of our public health service. It is much maligned and has its imperfections, but the pandemic has proved to us that it is much better than many people believed it was, and it really stood up and scaled up in the way we asked it to during the pandemic. While all...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue, about which she feels very sincerely. I know her passion for this issue, which she has raised previously. However, her comment about the Government was a bit unfair. We live in the same country as her, get elected by the same people as she does and talk to people on the ground every day just like she does. It is unfair to make comments...