Results 4,461-4,480 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: As the person responsible for the legislation, the Minister can also change it.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: The price increase is not the regulator's fault. The Minister can change the legislation, which was passed by the Oireachtas with his support.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: I understand how PSOs work.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: I believe the motion called for a postponment pending a review, rather than to stop it, which is quite a different thing.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: That is not true.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: I do.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: I refer to the reality of the numbers. Bringing down the price does not need a subsidy.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: That was the case but no longer is true.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: On what does the Minister base that?
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: We have not published any proposals.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: A policy of taking the money out of the companies' profits.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: It proposes taking â¬80 million out of the profits of companies that make â¬700 million in profit at present.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: The Minister is making it up. He does not even know what is Fine Gael's position.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: It is to defer the levy, not to get rid of the entire reason for the PSO.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: That is not Fine Gael's policy.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: The Minister is making things up.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: He is renowned for fantasy and for making things up and he is at it again.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: I do not go along with the Minister's fantasies.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: I apologise.
- Fuel Poverty: Motion (12 Oct 2010)
Leo Varadkar: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle should ask the Minister to speak through the Chair, rather than at me.