Results 9,261-9,280 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I join the Deputies in expressing my sorrow and regret at the job losses in Arklow and the company's decision to relocate back to Germany. Since the announcement on 8 November, Enterprise Ireland has been engaging intensively with the company to see whether it was possible to find a solution that would avert the job losses. Unfortunately, it has not proved possible, and the company...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: If the terms of the grants were not met, they must be repaid. Our agencies, IDA and Enterprise Ireland, stand ready to try to find alternative employment and to use the site for such employment for the people of Arklow.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: In addition, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and Intreo stand ready to ensure that anyone who loses his or her job gets the benefits to which he or she is entitled, the option of retraining and all the range of supports made available by Government to people who have been made unemployed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I can answer. I am happy to assure the House that neither I nor the Government are proposing that people be banned from burning turf or wood in their own private homes. However, this is-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy is a wise enough man not to believe everything he reads in the papers.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: However, a ban on burning turf and probably a ban on the burning of wood in people's private homes would be probably a natural extension of the policy that is being proposed by the leader of Fianna Fáil.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: It is part of its growing anti-rural agenda. It opposed the massive broadband plan, it wants to re-profile the roads projects and now it wants to ban the burning of turf. This is an anti-rural party.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The Cabinet decided today to provide an extra €10 million for public service broadcasting in Ireland in 2020, with €9 million going to RTÉ and €1 million going to the broadcasting fund. Also, a commission will be established on the future of Irish public service broadcasting, to report by September 2020. The terms of reference include examining how public service...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: If the Deputy gives me more details on the specific incidence, I will have it checked. Much of nursing recruitment goes through the national recruitment service which is somewhat cumbersome, but others can recruit independently and locally, which has led to financial management issues. If the Deputy provides me with more information I will have it checked out.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. The Government does not have powers of investigation when it comes to matters such as this in companies or sporting bodies. The Garda does and the report is now with the Garda. This is a matter for the Garda and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE to investigate.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: He does not have the power to carry out a Garda or ODCE investigation.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: Maidir le Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla, leagadh é faoi bhráid an Rialtais maidin inniu. Tá áthas orm gur tugadh cead é a fhoilsiú agus tús a chur leis an bpróiseas reachtaíochta san Oireachtas. Is céim mhór chun tosaigh í seo. Cinnteoidh an Bille nua go leanfaidh Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla de bheith ina thacaíocht...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: It is up from fourth place last year-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----and up from 17th place in 2012.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: That is based on the economy, jobs, life expectancy and education.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: This has not come from a UN committee-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----or from a UN rapporteur.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: It has come from the UNDP which is a UN agency. I look forward to the "Prime Time" special dedicated to-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----explaining to the country exactly how we managed to get to fourth place in the entire world.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I do not have that figure to hand but will ask the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide it for the Deputy. Assuming we stay in office, I can commit to continuing to increase the capital budget for public transport, as we have done for the last two years. We will continue to do so for the next five years if we are given the opportunity. I know that the Deputy will want to...