Results 21-40 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (24 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for details of his agreed approach with the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to prevent learner permit renewals without sitting a driving test, under action 27 of the Road Safety Strategy; the details of the RSA implementation plan; the proposed date to implement the plan in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37506/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will authorise payments to a school (details supplied). [37499/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Priorities (24 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is making any contingency plans for the possibility of having to provide school places for a wave of refugees coming to Europe and Ireland from Sudan due to the war, famine and humanitarian crisis unfolding there; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37502/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire (24 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the figure of €24 million is accurate in relation compensation being offered to the families of Stardust victims; if a separate payment is being made to cover legal fees incurred by the State and families; and to provide a breakdown of the amount, or if this is not possible, any estimate provided to her from the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Foreign Conflicts (24 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has been briefed on the war and humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan; whether she is aware than two million refugees have already left the country and that many will make their way to Europe; if she is making contingency plans for this; and if she has made an intervention on the matter at Justice and Home Affairs...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (24 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 365. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is making contingency plans to provide accommodation and other supports for a wave of refugees coming to Europe and Ireland from Sudan due to the war, famine and humanitarian crisis unfolding there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37501/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if he is making contingency plans for the possibility of having to provide health services for a wave of refugees coming to Europe and Ireland from Sudan due to the war, famine and humanitarian crisis unfolding there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37503/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I raise with the Taoiseach the appalling catastrophe unfolding in Sudan. As the House may know, civil war has raged there for approximately two years, leaving 150,000 dead. Some 2 million refugees have left Sudan already, with millions displaced within the country, and the UN has declared famine in Darfur. It is the only place in the world where the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Parks (18 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the previous commitment by the Office of Public Works to install planting on the north road in the Phoenix Park to segregate the bicycle lane from the new one-way road system, which would make the system clearer for drivers and safer for cyclists. [36513/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 727. To ask the Minister for Health when the e-learning module to enable GPs to prescribe PrEP privately through their surgeries was last available; when it will be available; and the number of doctors waiting to do the training. [36508/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 298.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he last discussed capital funding for the extension to the runway at Waterford Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35580/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 373.To ask the Minister for Finance given his Department's over-estimate of the cost of tax reductions in recent years (details supplied), whether he has initiated any review or actions to better understand the cause of these over-estimates and if he can give any reassurance that the cost of the tax package for 2025 will not also be over-estimated or over-stated.[35583/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 399.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW owns or controls the disused church on the grounds of a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33853/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 1009.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection given her Department's large over-estimation of the cost of new measures in recent years (details supplied), whether she has initiated any review or actions to better understand the reasons for these over-estimates, whether she believes they might be cultural to the Department and if she can give any reassurance that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 1585.To ask the Minister for Health the body that owns or controls the disused church on the grounds of a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33852/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 1883.To ask the Minister for Health to provide the latest annual (or quarterly) estimate for the reduction in the number of people in receipt of full medical cards and the increase in the number of people in receipt of GP visit cards, and to state whether he will give a commitment to increase or at least stop the decline in the number of people in receipt of full medical cards in 2025, given...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 1884.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost on Budget day for the November 2020 increase in income thresholds for over 70s entitlement to a full medical card and what the actual out-turn cost was.[35585/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Jul 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 355.To ask the Minister for Finance the stated cost for each of the main tax reductions in budgets 2022 and 2023; and the actual outturn cost for each, for both years. [32143/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Programme (9 Jul 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has read a recent paper (details supplied); if he accepts that the patchwork of primary and secondary legislation on road safety makes it too easy to challenge in the courts and harder for the authorities to enforce; if he will commit that the next legislation on road safety will be a road safety consolidation Act; and if he has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Leo Varadkar: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport on the matter of providing co-funding for developments at Waterford Airport. [25979/24]