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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (9 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Expenditure on digital and online space over the past eight years was as follows: 2011 – Nil 2012 – €639.90 2013 – Nil 2014 – Nil 2015 – €861.00 2016 – Nil 2017 – Nil 2018 - €451,351.03 2019 - €1,355.46 Total Expenditure: €454,171.09 A decision was taken in 2017 to fund and run cross-Government public...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has not paid any costs to the companies in question for projects, in the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has not engaged the company in question for any projects in the years concerned. However, in 2018 my Department paid €14,205 to the company in question for expenses incurred by a witness following receipt of a direction under section 24 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 by Judge Brian Cregan, Sole Member of the Commission of Investigation established...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Details of expenditure on tribunals and commissions of investigation funded through my Department's Vote, in each of the years 2009 to date in 2019, is set out in the following table. Moriarty Tribunal of Inquiry Year Admin Legal Costs 3rd Party Costs Total 2009 €444,767 €3,350,611 €0 €3,795,378 2010 €516,409 €2,608,484 €0 €3,124,893...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Change Policy (9 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Both my Department and the National Economic & Social Development Office (NESDO) have ceased the purchase of single-use plastics since July 2018. An instruction was issued on the matter at that time to ensure that single-use plastics are no longer purchased or used. A small existing stock has been phased out since then.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I am always amused and bemused that Deputy Martin likes to accuse me of being partisan and personal yet, as evidenced by his name-calling today, he is very capable of being partisan and personal himself. The Deputy reminds me of one of those parish priests who preaches from the altar telling us to avoid sin while secretly going behind the altar and engaging in any amount of sin himself. ...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: As always, I am happy to continue.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I am in the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's hands.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: It takes less time to ask a question than it does to answer it, as everyone can appreciate. On Deputy Boyd Barrett's question, he will appreciate that at this stage I cannot comment on individual cases. We have a system for deciding which medicines are licensed and which are approved for reimbursement in the State. This is not done by private health insurers or the private sector but by...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Deputy Howlin asked about healthcare assistants. I am not familiar with the report he mentioned so I will have to check into that. I have not yet had a chance to read the newspapers today but I am aware there is an editorial from Professor David McConnell in The Irish Timestoday, which I will endeavour to look at. I must read the article before responding. On Sligo hospital, I understand...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 10, inclusive, together. Cabinet committee D works to ensure a co-ordinated approach in the areas of infrastructure investment and delivery, including housing and climate action. The Cabinet committee last met on 27 May. The next meeting of the committee has yet to be scheduled. There is significant work under way across each of the areas covered...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputies for their questions. On the possibility of the need for a supplementary estimate for the health service, I have not seen the precise comments of the Ministers, Deputies Harris and Donohoe, so I am not au faitwith exactly what the difference is. It will not surprise anyone in this House that it is often the case that a supplementary estimate is required for health. That...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: In percentage terms, it was not dissimilar to the kind of overruns we have now. The record for the biggest health supplementary ever was under a Fianna Fáil led Government. About €1 billion had to be provided in a supplementary because of illegal nursing home charges, of which the Deputy will also be aware. On the recruitment of doctors, all the questions asked by Deputy...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, together. Cabinet Committee E last met on 22 November 2018. A date for the next meeting is being scheduled for later this month. In addition to the meetings of the full Cabinet and of Cabinet committees, I often meet Ministers on an individual basis to focus on particular issues. In this regard, I meet regularly the Minister, Deputy...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I never had the privilege of meeting Mark Killilea, but I am delighted to learn that we shared a love of Tina Turner. I am happy to advise the House that she and I are not currently in correspondence.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Or ever, by the way, just in case the Deputies wanted to ask. I am grateful to have this opportunity to pay tribute to a member of the Fianna Fáil family who gave a lifetime of service to our country. These tributes, which we pay on occasion in the Dáil, are very important occasions. They serve a higher purpose than simply honouring those who have served in this House and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I also welcome the fact we were in a position to ratify the Istanbul Convention on 1 July. There is an epidemic of violence against women in this State and around the world, and it needs to end. Our ratification of the convention is part of the effort to tackle it. On the update on the specific legislation the Deputy raises, I will have to ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I am afraid it is a question for the Minister for Health but I will mention to him that the Deputy raised it. I appreciate that there are very long waiting lists for gynaecological procedures in many parts of the country but I should acknowledge much of the progress that has been made. Just in the past two years, the number of people waiting more than 12 weeks for a cataract procedure, hip...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I am advised the Bills are on the priority list. As the Deputy knows, there is a lot of legislation on that list so I will ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to correspond with the Deputy with a more detailed reply.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I read the report too and I share the Deputy's concerns about it. The standards have been in place for some time and they are designed to raise the quality, dignity and standards that exist in public and private nursing homes, moving away from a model of older people spending the last year of their life in a ward towards providing something much better such as their own room or a room for...