Results 11,241-11,260 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: They cannot all be done at the same time. We are building three hospitals. Only so many can be built at one time. Planning permission has been secured for the first, Holles Street hospital, which will be moved to St. Vincent's., where necessary works are under way to move the pharmacy and make space for the new hospital. I anticipate that will go to tender this year and that construction...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: It is not laissez-faire at all.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I really think the Deputy needs to pull out her Irish-French dictionary and look up what the word "laissez-faire" means. There is nothinglaissez-faireabout this at all.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: We are going into this one in excruciating detail. Deputy McDonald is right - those are my words.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The final cost of this will be a multiple of the original estimate, but what the Deputy never mentions is the full truth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: There is a difference between the truth and the whole truth. This is a different project.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The original estimate was based on bringing fibre to 11,000 villages-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----not fibre to 540,000 homes, farms and businesses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: If we look at the scale----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: If we look at the scale of this project, we are talking 500,000 homes, farms and businesses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: We are talking-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----about benefits for over 1 million people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: We are talking about a project of the scale of rural electrification, which took 20 or 30 years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: This will not take that long.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: We are looking at a project of the cost and scale of Ardnacrusha.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: In relation to plan B, of course we are looking at other options. I said that earlier - plan B, plan C, plan D.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The problem with the Sinn Féin plan, which of course is being considered, is that, first of all, the ESB pulled out. It would cost more-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----and because of rules around state aid and procurement, we could not just award it to a semi-State. We would have to put it out to tender. As to the Sinn Féin alternative, the ESB pulled out, it would cost more and it would take longer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy for the question. As I have always said about this and other projects, small and large, one only really knows what the true cost will be when the bids and tenders come in. When it comes to this project, there were three bids.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)
Leo Varadkar: While it is true that two of those three bidders have since withdrawn, we have three bids and we know what the cost is of the project. All three bids came in at a similar figure. When the Deputy referred to the original cost estimate of €500 million, she neglected to mention that it was for a very different project which was designed to bring fibre to 11,000 towns and villages but...