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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The changes we intend to meet are in the context of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I do not know about that. We will come back to the Deputy on that. I take the Deputy's point on local elections. I had the pleasure to visit Chile in March as part of the St. Patrick's Day visits. An interesting thing they had there was a constitutional convention. The people decided to reject the new constitution but when they elected the assembly they had gender quotas. More women...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: It would be interesting to see if they would. Of course if people volunteer to participate in a pilot scheme then it is not a genuine one. A pilot scheme must use a random sample in order to be real.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: No, I am not. What I am going to do is publish the interesting research. It is lays out the pros and cons not just of doing it as a policy, which no country has done, but also the problems with all of the pilot schemes that have been done around the world, which have largely failed for lots of different reasons. Where the initiative can work is if a country has massive oil or mineral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy has made a valid point. The Chairperson asked about flexible working. As she will be aware, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth is bringing through the legislation for flexible working that is just for parents and carers and derives from an EU directive. I am trying to do legislation on remote working, which is a bit trickier as it is hard to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The intention, at the moment anyway, is to give the option to seek flexible working to parents and carers because they need it in a way that people who are not parents and carers do not. Sometimes rights need to be given to parents and carers that do not need to be given to people who are not parents and carers. We just need to bear that in mind too. The WRC needs more staff. It got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Yes, will do. In my experience, a realistic timeframe for a referendum is a year from the time the Government decides to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: That is not a matter for me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: It is a matter for Government. There is a number of potential referendums on the list. As a Government we must decide which ones to do and how many we can do in any one day. We can do a lot but there are risks in holding four or five referendums on the one day. In my first speech after being elected Taoiseach in 2017, I said we would have a referendum on the eighth amendment within a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Representative members are, in accordance with Section 2 of the Fifth Schedule to the Industrial Relations Act, 1990, appointed to all Joint Labour Committees (JLC’s) by the Labour Court. The Labour Court carries out its functions in this regard independently of the Minister and Government.  The Minister nominates an independent Chair and Deputy Chair. The Labour Court, before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I might come back to the Deputy on the well-being and gender budgeting, and defer to the Department of Finance on that issue. I do not want to give the Deputy an inaccurate answer. In my Department, every time a significant decision is made that requires a decision or information, we bring a memorandum to Government on which a gender analysis is conducted as to the impact, if any, of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Not as a focus to be honest. The focus will be the cost-of-living crisis, housing, improving healthcare and all the issues that are top of the agenda of people when I knock on their doors. As the Senator knows, I was one of the people who-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: So I talk to you, we disagree and that is it.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (4 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: As Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment I am acutely aware of the impact the current high energy costs are having on businesses of all size, including in the hospitality and food production sectors. Last week, the Government announced the Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme as part of the Budget. The scheme is aimed at businesses whose average unit gas or electricity price...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Transport (4 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: On 17th September this year, I travelled on a Ryanair flight from Dublin Airport to Kerry Airport. I met with the CEO of Kerry Airport, visited the Kerry Technology Park and attended a meeting in Monavalley Business Park, Tralee. One official from my Department accompanied me on this flight. No other domestic flights were taken for the purposes of Department business by Ministers or officials...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (4 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I regularly meet and discuss concerns with members of the business community, labour representatives and other enterprise stakeholders. Officials from my Department as well as the Ministers of State and I, have had ongoing engagement with the business community and its wider stakeholders in relation to the impact of rising energy costs on businesses. Fora where the cost of doing business and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (4 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I am informed the issue of the regulation of fossil fuels advertising does not fall under the remit of the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment. More broadly, the Department is helping businesses move away from fossil fuels and towards more sustainable, cheaper alternatives though schemes such as the €55 million ‘Green Transition’ fund.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Cun a fhiafraí den Tánaiste agus Aire Fiontar; Trádála agus Fostaíochta cé mhéad airgid a chuir an Rialtas ar fáil in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 agus 2022 do chiste caipitil na Gníomhaireachta Forbartha Tionscail - Éamon Ó Cuív. Freagra Seo iad na cistí chaipitil a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Chun a fhiafraí den Tánaiste agus Aire Fiontar; Trádála agus Fostaíochta cé mhéad airgid a chuir an Rialtas ar fáil in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 agus 2022 do chiste caipitil Fhiontraíocht Éireann. Freagra Seo iad na cistí chaipitil a bhronnadh do Fiontraíocht Eireann ó mo...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (5 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: In 2021 IDA Ireland acquired a new landbank at the Mell in Drogheda, Co Louth. This landbank will form part of IDA’s long term strategic plans to position Drogheda and the wider Mid-East region to compete for FDI investment. Since acquiring the landbank IDA has undertaken an infrastructure review with respect to servicing considerations and how to best position the landbank to...