Results 10,441-10,460 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The short answer is that we are willing to commit to that. I think that is what is stated in the climate action plan - maybe it is more nuanced than that. My understanding is that we are willing to commit to it. I was one of the Heads of Government who was willing to commit to it at the European Council summit last week. Three or four Heads of Government were not willing and they raised...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: Different treatments are available in different countries. I imagine there are countries that do better than us and I am sure there are many more countries that do not do as well as us. I am not entirely sure, therefore, how to answer the Deputy's question. Deep brain stimulation is available in Northern Ireland for Irish patients but is provided through the service at the Mater Hospital....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputies for raising the issue, which I am sure is of great concern to the service users, but I have not seen the letter, I did not write it and I did not sign it. Therefore, I cannot account for it. I suggest Deputy Munster may wish to take it up directly with whoever wrote it. I assure Deputy Fitzpatrick that current budgets and capital budgets are separate and an...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I do not believe there is anything unpalatable-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----in it in the sense that it points out that if public and private practice were to be disentangled it would have to be done over a long period of time, recognising that hundreds of millions of euro would be lost to the public hospital system by removing private fees, that the contracts of thousands of consultants would have to be changed and it could make our recruitment and retention...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The plan is to have the legislation published before the end of the month. That allows us establish the referendum commission immediately and the intention, subject to everything running smoothly in this House and the other House, is to have the referendum in October or November of this year.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: There is no policy being decided.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: To respond to the Deputy's question about the de Buitléir report, it cannot be published this week. The Minister for Health has the report which he has to bring to the Cabinet. Once it has considered it, it can be published thereafter. I cannot give a date today, but I have read it and there are no secrets in it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: We will try to have it published as soon as we possibly can. On the matter of private clinics in public hospitals, Crumlin Children's Hospital already has a private clinic-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----as do the National Maternity Hospital, very many public hospitals-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----and NHS hospitals such as Great Ormond Street Hospital. They are private clinics that enable consultants to see private patients. It brings in extra revenue for the hospitals which they can then use to cross-subsidise public healthcare services.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The de Buitléir report sets out how we might disentangle public and private practice in public hospitals as recommended by Sláintecare. The report points out very clearly that it is not something that can be done overnight. It would involve new contracts, changing contracts and new funding models. It would take quite some time to make it happen.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: All of us meet people all of the time from all sorts of organisations and businesses. I bet none of us ever filled in a lobbying return-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----because the obligation-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: An Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: One always knows when somebody does not have a case. It is when there is an attempt to try to shout down people because the Deputies concerned do not want the answers to their questions. That is because they know that-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----what they are saying is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----untrue.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: Where lobbying occurs, the obligation is always on the lobbyist-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----and not the person being lobbied to declare that.If that is not the case, then every Deputy must have a case to answer. No person in this House has ever made a lobbying declaration but I bet-----