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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I am answering the questions one by one.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: If there had been fewer interruptions while I was answering I would have been able to answer more questions. I do not interrupt the questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I do not interrupt the questions ever but my answers are constantly interrupted. I do want to-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputies for their questions. On the issue of a no-deal Brexit, it is of course difficult to predict the impact on our economy, on the British economy or the European economy because this situation where the UK leaves the European Union without a deal is unprecedented. No country has ever left the European Union before. There have, however, been a number of analyses and I refer...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We are giving the information but not publishing a Government memo-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----because that would be unconstitutional, but of course we will make information public. We have to. There is no way one could do these preparations in secret somehow. There are no means of passing secret legislation. There are no means of secretly hiring people. This will all be public and there will be less drama to it than the Deputy may think. Deputy McDonald was not quite...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I do not know because the table is not based on an index that is produced by a UN body or an environmental body. It has been produced by a campaign organisation. Is it true? I do not know and neither does Deputy Howlin. That is the point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: At least we know that if the figures come from the EPA or the CSO they are-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: ----statistically accurate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: That is true but each of the Deputies is speaking about different things, I am afraid.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: That particular league table had Ireland at a particular place in the world. One would have to go through the data-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----for each of those countries to analyse it objectively and have it peer reviewed to see if it actually stacks up. The answer is that none of us know whether that table is true. We can say, for example, that the EPA data is true. That data does not come from a campaigning organisation. It comes from a body that assesses these issues statistically and independently and has them peer...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----if other people do not. Deputy Burton's assertion that loans were sold by the Minister for Finance is not correct. The Minister for Finance does not sell any loans and nor was agreement sought.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Minister has no role in it and nor is there a shareholder vote on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: No. That is incorrect. For the record, the Minister for Finance did not have to approve it and did not. Pepper is regulated and all mortgage holders whose mortgages have been sold on will continue to have the same consumer rights and protections as they did beforehand. We will make sure that this is the case. I discussed the ESRI reports earlier. It is based on a wage index model....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Yes according to the ESRI. The Deputies do not understand the difference between a wage index model and an inflation index model.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The point that it validly makes-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Hospitals such as St. Vincent's, the Mater and the Adelaide and Meath Hospital incorporating the National Children's Hospital in Tallaght are tertiary hospitals. They are also voluntary hospitals. There is nothing fuzzy about voluntarism.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It is serious. It is a particular model of governance, and it is certainly not unique to Ireland. The Mater Hospital in Belfast, for example, which has been part of the NHS since its foundation, has autonomy and an arrangement with the NHS. Many of the hospitals in Germany are owned by voluntary bodies or charities, some of which have religious foundations as well. However, Deputy...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----so it will be resolved when it is resolved. I will repeat what I said earlier, lest there be any doubt. The Government will be investing hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money in this new hospital and it will not be gifted to anybody. The entire investment will be protected by the State. The hospital will be independent of St. Vincent's and will have its own governance, board and...