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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: Maybe even in most cases-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: -----but 50,000 new tenancies created last year means that 50,000 people found a new place to live. It might have been a new property to rent. It might have been that they were renting it for the first time. That is the answer to the Deputy's question as to where people will go - new tenancies. Fifty thousand individuals and families found a new place to rent last year. That will be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: -----in other cases it will be a private housing tenancy and in other cases it will be a housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancy. Emergency accommodation is not the solution but we will increase the amount of emergency accommodation for a group that may need it that cannot find a place to go. Deputy McDonald is trying to exploit people's fears and anxieties and, if anything, fuel them....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: Deputy Ó Broin is shaking his head because he knows that is not true but people listening to you think that is what he is saying, by the way.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: That is what people listening to Deputy Ó Broin think he is saying. We all know that 4,000 notices to quit does not turn into automatically 4,000 families in emergency accommodation-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: -----and that will be evident over the next few months. In opposing the Sinn Féin Bill, we are putting down a reasoned amendment setting our plan, what we have done already in the past six months and what we will do in the months ahead. It is the same wording as the motion that the Dáil voted on last week and that is the reasoned amendment we are putting down to refuse a Second...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: It might be a response to the crisis but it is not a solution to it. Let me give the Deputy some practical examples of the kind of people who may be affected by Sinn Féin's Bill. A garda, for example, assigned to work in a different part of the country, maybe a young doctor in training, or maybe a teacher who went to Dubai for a few years and came home, would not be able to move...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: Second, Sinn Féin's Bill would make it illegal for people to move back into an apartment or a house that their parents bought for them when they go to college. A lot of people - I met somebody in Waterford only a few months ago - bought an apartment in Cork with the express reason of buying it so that their son or daughter could move in there when he or she went to college. Sinn...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: The Cabinet Committee on Housing last met on 2nd of March. This Committee works to ensure a coordinated approach to the implementation of Housing for All. The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Housing is scheduled for 17thof April.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: The Cabinet Committee on Housing last met on 2nd of March. This Committee works to ensure a coordinated approach to the implementation of Housing for All. The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Housing is scheduled for 17thof April.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Media (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: It is not the practice to comment on the technical measures that are put in place to protect official devices and communications. The NCSC does issues guidance to Government Departments and office holders on the security of mobile devices. This guidance is based on risk assessments appropriate to the circumstances and is kept under continuous review by the NCSC. The Department of the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: None of the companies in question have won contracts with the Department of the Taoiseach.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Travel (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: St. Patrick's Day offers a unique opportunity to engage with the global Irish community and to promote Ireland’s economic and political interests overseas. My visit to Washington DC this year, from 14-19 March, also provided an opportunity to recognise the steadfast and invaluable support and engagement of the United States in the peace process over the decades, particularly this year...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: I do not think any modelling has been done by the Opposition. We had an indication of the RTB figures but not the exact figures. They indicated two things. One was an uptick in notices to quit driven by the eviction ban. Landlords got the message, in part as a consequence of the eviction ban, and it accelerated the number of landlords that were leaving. That bothered us and is one of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: I cannot respond to that. It is not a matter for the co-ordination committee. Perhaps I can come back to Deputy Barry at a different point.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: I will participate in the March meeting of the European Council in Brussels tomorrow and Friday. The agenda will cover Ukraine, competitiveness, the Single Market and the economy, energy and migration. We will also discuss some recent developments including the Windsor Framework, the normalisation agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, and a donors' conference held in Brussels on Monday to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: Tógfaidh mé Ceisteanna Uimh. 10 go 17, go huile, le chéile. The Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination generally meets in advance of Government meetings and is scheduled to meet again on Monday, 27 March. The committee reviews the agenda for Government meetings the next day, looks forward to Government meetings to come, discusses political priorities and reviews the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputies have raised a number of important questions but given the time allowed, I will prioritise answering the questions that relate to the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination, which is the issue addressed in the group. Regarding the reasoning given to us by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage for the lifting of the eviction moratorium, the Department's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: We certainly met the Minister. I cannot remember exactly which meeting he attended or did not attend but we certainly met him. He almost certainly was there but there was more than one meeting on this, as the Deputy can imagine. The very strong assessment from the officials was to go for the option of ending the moratorium as planned on 31 March. In terms of statistical modelling, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (22 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: Okay. Deputy Bacik asked about the interdepartmental group on the referendum, which met for the first time in the last few days. I have the report and the minutes from the meeting on my desk. Like many things on my desk, I have not had a chance to look at them just yet but I hope to do so in the next few days. It is my expectation that the group will follow, or at least seek to follow,...