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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.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I fully agree with the Deputy on one point. There is no referendum that will in itself improve services and there is no referendum that is going to build anymore house or anything like that. I totally agree with the Deputy in that regard. It can only ever be a certain part of the picture. We are putting record amounts of resources into disability services. Approximately €2 billion...

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. I will clarify one point and I appreciate I was not clear. When I say it will take more than one Government to solve some of these problems, I do not mean two Governments over ten years; I mean this Government has a year to run and this problem is not going to be solved within a year. The opening of the new children's hospital next year and everything around that...