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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (11 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Each year, Enterprise Ireland offers a programme of trade missions and events which support the goal of securing high-level market access for companies based in Ireland who are aiming to grow business overseas and increase domestic employment. In recent years the majority of Ministerial-led trade missions have taken place to the Eurozone, North America and Asia Pacific, which represented...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Properties (11 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Accommodation for my Department and its Offices is provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW) in buildings which are either State owned or leased by the OPW on our behalf. The Department and its Offices are located in 10 locations across the country. Typically, the Department and its Offices are in shared accommodation, either with other Government Departments, public bodies or the private...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has a dedicated Policy on all matters relating to official travel by staff of the Department and its Offices, including air travel. The Policy is framed on the relevant circulars and advice from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and reflects the general principle of achieving efficiency and value for money and minimising travel and subsistence costs. The Policy is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has a dedicated Policy on all matters relating to official travel by staff of the Department and its Offices, including air travel. The Policy is framed on the relevant circulars and advice from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and reflects the general principle of achieving efficiency and value for money and minimising travel and subsistence costs. The Policy is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has a dedicated Policy on all matters relating to official travel by staff of the Department and its Offices, including air travel. The Policy is framed on the relevant circulars and advice from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and reflects the general principle of achieving efficiency and value for money and minimising travel and subsistence costs. The Policy is...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has a dedicated Policy on all matters relating to official travel by staff of the Department and its Offices, including air travel. The Policy is framed on the relevant circulars and advice from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and reflects the general principle of achieving efficiency and value for money and minimising travel and subsistence costs. The Policy is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has a dedicated Policy on all matters relating to official travel by staff of the Department and its Offices, including air travel. The Policy is framed on the relevant circulars and advice from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and reflects the general principle of achieving efficiency and value for money and minimising travel and subsistence costs. The Policy is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has a dedicated Policy on all matters relating to official travel by staff of the Department and its Offices, including air travel. The Policy is framed on the relevant circulars and advice from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and reflects the general principle of achieving efficiency and value for money and minimising travel and subsistence costs. The Policy is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has a dedicated Policy on all matters relating to official travel by staff of the Department and its Offices, including air travel. The Policy is framed on the relevant circulars and advice from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and reflects the general principle of achieving efficiency and value for money and minimising travel and subsistence costs. The Policy is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The rise in the cost of living is affecting everyone and it is affecting students too. We understand that. We get that. Students want their voices heard and, by protesting today, they are making sure that their voices are heard. They will be heard in this House and by this Government. I will give the Deputy a few examples of what we have announced only in the past few weeks, such as a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I am not sure that is entirely true. If we rewound to 20 years ago, when neither my party nor that of the Deputy was in government, and projected ahead, I doubt we would have projected the population of the country would be 5.2 million, as it is now. I doubt we would have projected we would have extended the opportunity of higher and further education to so many as we do now. I am thankful...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Unfortunately, we are seeing a rise in people who are homeless and need to access emergency accommodation. I am thankful that we are able to provide emergency accommodation for almost everyone who needs it. We do not see, or at least we very rarely see, families having to sleep on the streets or sleep in cars, as is often the case in other countries. Nobody wants us to end up in that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy is right to say we can learn from other countries but we should not be naive about what things look like in other countries either. Anyone who has walked the streets of Paris or Marseilles will see the kind of homelessness problem that exists there and how much worse it has got in the past ten or 20 years. I acknowledge the Deputy does not think there is any quick fix to these...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I thank Deputy Lowry for raising this important issue. I appreciate that University Hospital Limerick is not just a hospital for Limerick, but for a whole region, including north Tipperary, Clare and the wider County Limerick. This morning, there were 21 patients on trolleys in Limerick. Eleven had been on trolleys for more than nine hours. That is a bad situation and is not acceptable at...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: No decision at this stage has been made by the Government in relation to an elective hospital in the mid-west. It is open for consideration. I do not think it is a bad idea at all. I am realistic about it because I know how long it takes, believe me, to get a hospital through design and planning and then built. Realistically, it would take six years. In the meantime, the mid-west region...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. We should acknowledge at the outset that roughly half of carbon tax is paid by businesses and the other half by individuals. It varies a good deal from one individual to another. It is not just a rural-urban matter. It depends on how big your house is and how you heat it, whether you drive and what type of car you drive. There are many things people can do to reduce...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: No it is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Once again, the Minister for Transport does not issue public transport licences. That is not his function. The NTA does so on the basis of the law, regulations and certain criteria. I do not know why it refused that licence. From what the Deputy tells me, there is not an alternative service available. Sometimes it will refuse an application if an existing Bus Éireann service is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The reason we do not want to do that is because, as Deputy Bacik knows, any time you nationalise something you have to compensate the owners. Even is we were to nationalise Corrib for two, three, four or ten years, we would have to compensate the owners at a cost of many billions of euro. I would rather spend those many billions of euro helping people to reduce their bills than compensating...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Soon.