Results 36,301-36,320 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar

Banking Policy. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Sometimes I think the Tánaiste and I do not live in the same country. I heard her reply, in which she said there is no doubt banks are making significant capital and credit available to businesses. That is just not true. I wonder whether she is spending too much time doing the clinic of Pat The Cope Gallagher in her constituency, rather than talking to business people about the realities...

Banking Policy. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Will the Tánaiste do something about this? Will she introduce an enterprise finance guarantee, as has been done in the United Kingdom, to ensure credit is extended to business again? If she will not do that, will she at least consider establishing a new bank, a national recovery bank, as Fine Gael has suggested to ensure these zombie banks are not relied on to provide credit when we can...

Banking Policy. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: The Tánaiste is always setting up groups for stakeholders and all of that.

Banking Policy. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: This is all process. We know this Government is great at process. There are review groups, research papers, committees and task forces which all get together and write another report. We are sick to death of process. It is now two years since the bank guarantee and what we need is action. When will the Minister act on this issue and make a decision on whether there will be a loan...

Banking Policy. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: We have no banks. They are zombies to which the Government gave €11 billion to lend no money.

Banking Policy. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Working towards examining.

Banking Policy. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Let us swap places.

Departmental Review. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Matrix in the framework.

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the fact that businesses are not viable due to high commercial rents; if she will intervene in this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11260/10]

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: On a point of order.

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I know the Minister of State is familiar with the standing orders relating to relevance. The question is about rents and it is not about scrappage schemes or any of that stuff. We are being given a stock reply from the Minister of State. It is not in order for him-----

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: -----to give an irrelevant answer.

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: It is about relevance. What has a scrappage scheme got to do with rent reviews?

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: This is a case of copy and paste.

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: There is no need to do that.

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: The question is to do with commercial rents. We all know that commercial rents are volatile and I accept they are coming down in many sectors. However, it is clear that institutional investors, pension funds, banks and others, are not reducing their commercial rents. They do not wish to do so because they do not want to come clean about their own capital situation, that they have based...

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: We said we would freeze them and we did.

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: That is not relevant.

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I reject that allegation. In most of the local authorities controlled by my party, rates have been frozen as we promised and in others they have been reduced, for example, in Fingal County Council and in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, which is controlled by Fine Gael.

Economic Competitiveness. (9 Mar 2010)

Leo Varadkar: The Minister of State has made it clear he is not yet convinced that commercial rents are not being reduced sufficiently and he wants more information. Will he agree with my analysis on this matter that essentially, landlords today are behaving like they did during the Famine? In the Famine, landlords drove tenant farmers off their lands and now the big commercial institutional landlords...