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National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves, pursuant to section 5(4) of the National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019 (No. 18 of 2019), the making of a payment of the sum of €1,500,000,000 (€1.5 billion) in the year 2022 and a payment of the sum of €3,500,000,000 (€3.5 billion) in the year 2023 from the Central Fund or the growing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry (20 Dec 2012)

Leo Varadkar: ...will continue in 2013.   In terms of our main tourism priority, the Gathering Ireland 2013 will be the biggest tourism led initiative ever held in Ireland. The event aims to attract an extra 325,000 overseas visitors to Ireland with associated spending of over €150 million.  Significant resources are in place to ensure that 'The Gathering' will be successful...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 31 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Leo Varadkar: ..., Community and Local Government is heading up the operation and will check to make sure the figures are accurate. The most badly affected roads were in County Clare, in which approximately €7.2 million worth of damage was done. It was followed by counties Waterford, Galway, Mayo, Kerry and Cork, in which damage to a figure of €3.8 million, €2.5 million, €2...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I apologise for the delay in starting. There was crash involving a truck on the M50 and then it started to snow. Of course, these things never happened when I was Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, but they do on occasion. The Deputy is correct. This section simply extends access to invalidity pension to self-employed persons and will not take effect until December 2017. I would...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...with an answer regarding the CE schemes. On JobPath, all I would say is that by any objective analysis this Government’s employment policies have been a resounding success. There are 2.3 million people at work in Ireland, more people than ever before, unemployment is below 5% and long-term unemployment is even lower at around 2%, one of the lowest in the world. JobPath has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycle Facilities (16 Jan 2013)

Leo Varadkar: ... from Portobello to its junction with Sherriff Street.  The NTA propose to extend this route. Overall the cost of this urban section between the City Centre (Guild Street) and Maynooth is envisaged to be in the order of €15 million to €20 million.  This urban section will require, in places, extensive engineering works in the form of bridges and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (18 Dec 2014)

Leo Varadkar: ...budget for the Department, to maintain the existing level of services and provide for some improvements. I believe, within the economic confines that still exist, that aim was achieved in Budget 2015. In particular I have ringfenced €25 million to deal with the issue of delayed discharges and €35 million for investment in the area of mental health. Another key priority is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...Progress has been made on the number of home care hours delivered through increased investment in recent years. Last year, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, allocated additional funding of €150 million for home support. This year's HSE national service plan sets a target to provide 24 million home support hours, 5 million hours more than was provided last year. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Reports (9 Dec 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme commenced on 10th November 2014. The Assessor for the Scheme is former High Court Judge Maureen Harding Clark. The Scheme has around €34 million available and participants will receive awards at three levels - €50,000, €100,000 and €150,000. Applications had to be made to the Scheme within 20 working days of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the Commission on the Defence Forces, we are going to build up our Air Corps and radar capability so that we have an air force but it will be a small air force, appropriate for a country of 5 million people. Even then, not just on an interim basis but long term, we will need to have arrangements and co-operation with our neighbours and also our partners in the European Union,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (18 Oct 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The rent supplement scheme is currently supporting some 50,700 recipients for which the Government has provided €267 million for in 2016. The most recent analysis, undertaken in June 2016, shows that there are approximately 39,200 landlords providing accommodation to rent supplement customers, of which approximately 260 refer to registered approved housing bodies. In general the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 Nov 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...through the Regional Enterprise Development Fund and the recent Border Fund. Based on Enterprise Ireland’s analysis, approximately 3,200 co-working/enterprises spaces are being developed across 45 of the 117 projects supported under these Funds. There are a broad range of digital/enterprise/community hubs currently operating across the country, both public and private, including...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (3 May 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...we could better share the island; and commissioning research to deepen understanding of the whole island in economic, social, cultural and political terms. The Government has so far allocated €191 million from the fund. With this resourcing, we are moving ahead with long-standing commitments, like the Ulster Canal and the Narrow Water bridge, and with new investments that meet...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Administration (24 Jan 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...jobseeker’s allowance scheme such as the retention of secondary benefits and access to activation programmes. The 2017 Revised Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure of almost €83 million on the farm assist scheme. I am very pleased that, with the agreement of my colleagues in Government, Budget 2017 introduced new measures in relation to the assessment of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (24 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...in undertaking suitable employment arising from a medical condition (subject to satisfying the relevant medical criteria). Each €1 increase in the weekly personal rate would cost €6.6 million in 2017 and a full year. There is an analogous social insurance payment, Invalidity Pension, which is paid to persons who are permanently incapable of work (subject to satisfying...

Other Questions: Child Benefit Eligibility (25 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...to be paid in respect of children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education or who have a physical or mental disability. It is currently paid to around 623,000 families for 1.2 million children with an estimated spend of over €2 billion by my Department this year. Child benefit is an important source of income for families and in Budget 2016, the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Paternity Leave (28 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...numbers that will take up paternity leave and paternity benefit. My Department estimates that it could be 30,000 to 40,000 fathers who will receive paternity benefit in a full year, at a cost of €20 million. This year, 2016, the payment is expected to cost the exchequer €5 million, which equates to one quarter of the expected full year cost.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (25 Oct 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 291 and 305 together. On Budget Day, I announced the first general increase in the weekly rates of payment since 2009. A €5 increase in the weekly rates of payment for all social welfare payments will commence from March, with proportionate increases for qualified adults and those on reduced rates of payment (including jobseekers on age-related...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: ...appointment as Minister for Health I have said, on more than one occasion that my first priority was to achieve a realistic budget for the health service. I believe that was achieved in Budget 2015, with an increase in the exchequer allocation of €305 million. When taken together with once-off increased projected revenues of some €330 million and savings and efficiencies of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...is an absolute priority to improve those figures and to improve the lives of people in the coming years. As the Deputy said, consistent poverty stood at 8% in 2014. It is worth noting that in 2005, during the boom, it was 7%, so it is only 1% higher now than it was at a particular point in boom. This is not just about cash transfers. I attended a very good conference on child...