Results 40,281-40,300 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (11 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 467.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she would support a change in the law to allow people to register their gender as intersex or to change it from indeterminate to intersex either through self-identification or medical advice. [25152/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 792.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Ireland continues to have poor outcomes for respiratory illnesses like COPD according to OECD statistics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25142/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 793.To ask the Minister for Health to explain why lidocaine patches when prescribed by a pain medicine consultant are not reimbursed on the DPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25143/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 794.To ask the Minister for Health to explain why melatonin when prescribed is not reimbursed on the DPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25144/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (19 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 124. To ask the Minister for Health to provide assurance that the general scheme for a statutory home care scheme will be published in 2024; the reason progress has been slow in the past two years; and to set out in detail the extent and depth of civil service resources being allocated to the project, that is, the number of staff and grade; and if this is the main work. [26341/24]

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I join with colleagues who earlier expressed their condolences on the passing of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh and Tommie Gorman. It is a very sad day for Ireland to see two such wonderful people pass away, people who have made such an enormous contribution to society in so many different ways. I support the EU migration and asylum pact and will vote for it tomorrow. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Closures (25 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 158. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the numbers on the opening of new retail businesses and closure of such businesses; and whether there is any evidence of an increase in net or gross closures, in tabular form. [27103/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Closures (25 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the numbers on the opening of new hospitality businesses and closures of such businesses; and whether there is any evidence of an increase in closures, net and gross, in tabular form. [27104/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Financial Irregularities (25 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has had any contact in person or in writing within the past six months with the secretary of an organisation (details supplied) and if he has used the opportunity to raise the matter of financial irregularities at the organisation [27091/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (25 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the evidence that exists of passports or other international travel documents being thrown in bins or flushed down toilets in State airports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27090/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport on the matter of providing co-funding for developments at Waterford Airport. [25979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Programme (9 Jul 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has read a recent paper (details supplied); if he accepts that the patchwork of primary and secondary legislation on road safety makes it too easy to challenge in the courts and harder for the authorities to enforce; if he will commit that the next legislation on road safety will be a road safety consolidation Act; and if he has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 298.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he last discussed capital funding for the extension to the runway at Waterford Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35580/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 373.To ask the Minister for Finance given his Department's over-estimate of the cost of tax reductions in recent years (details supplied), whether he has initiated any review or actions to better understand the cause of these over-estimates and if he can give any reassurance that the cost of the tax package for 2025 will not also be over-estimated or over-stated.[35583/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 399.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW owns or controls the disused church on the grounds of a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33853/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 1009.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection given her Department's large over-estimation of the cost of new measures in recent years (details supplied), whether she has initiated any review or actions to better understand the reasons for these over-estimates, whether she believes they might be cultural to the Department and if she can give any reassurance that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 1585.To ask the Minister for Health the body that owns or controls the disused church on the grounds of a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33852/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 1883.To ask the Minister for Health to provide the latest annual (or quarterly) estimate for the reduction in the number of people in receipt of full medical cards and the increase in the number of people in receipt of GP visit cards, and to state whether he will give a commitment to increase or at least stop the decline in the number of people in receipt of full medical cards in 2025, given...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 1884.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost on Budget day for the November 2020 increase in income thresholds for over 70s entitlement to a full medical card and what the actual out-turn cost was.[35585/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I raise with the Taoiseach the appalling catastrophe unfolding in Sudan. As the House may know, civil war has raged there for approximately two years, leaving 150,000 dead. Some 2 million refugees have left Sudan already, with millions displaced within the country, and the UN has declared famine in Darfur. It is the only place in the world where the...