Results 40,101-40,120 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: -----they are built by a private provider and they were one-beds and two-beds. However, if we look at the facts, look at the homelessness and look at the housing shortage, the areas we need the most new housing in are one-beds and two-beds. We need family homes as well, but the biggest shortage is for one-beds and two-beds and these are the kind of things Deputy Boyd Barrett and people who...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: There is something I admire about the Deputy. I do mean this; I am not trying to be smart. Deputy Boyd Barrett is very articulate, very passionate and performs really well in this House.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: It is really obvious, however, when you get angry - not just pretending to be angry-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: -----but genuinely angry - and the way you spoke to Deputy Carroll MacNeill there was-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: No.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: No, but-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: No, but I am in this House four or sometimes five hours a week. I am constantly heckled.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: Sometimes by you.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: Sometimes by you-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: -----just as you are doing now, and often by Members opposite, and I have never talked down to somebody, particularly a female Deputy across the way, like that and say "I am not listening to you".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: Again with your brass neck. Do you not see the irony of it? I am criticising you for talking down to Deputy Carroll MacNeill, for heckling her, and then you are heckling me.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: A Cheann Comhairle, is the Deputy not out of order?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: Thank you. The Deputy-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: Anyway, let us deal with the substantive issue now that we have dealt with the nonsense.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: What we need is more private and more public housing. The constraint does not relate to who owns the company; it relates to getting workers with the necessary skills and the materials. That is where the constraint lies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: I thank Deputy Canney for raising this very important issue. It has been raised with me by other Deputies, including very many here on the Government benches. When any change is made to how resources are allocated to schools, it can cause worry for students, parents and the schools in question. Inevitably, when a change is made, there will be schools that gain hours and schools that lose...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy again for his contribution. What is happening here is that the amount of resource for special education is increasing, but it is shifting from primary to secondary. That is the right thing to do because that is where the population is moving. As I mentioned previously, in the county of Galway alone, there will be 300 fewer children in primary school next year and ten...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: I will have to inquire about that. My understanding is that the Israeli ambassador has been summoned to Iveagh House. She certainly met with the Minister and Secretary General in some location about these matters. I will follow up on that. I will also follow up on the numbers with regard to the waiting list. The numbers I have here are from the Department of Health. I believe them to...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: I think Drogheda is a great town. It is a town I have a personal affection for, because when my father came to this country, when he was dragged back to Ireland by his Irish wife, he needed to find a job and found it hard to get one. He found a job in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital working in the paediatric service there. He always speaks fondly of that town and the people who live there. I...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)
Leo Varadkar: I think that says a lot.