Results 12,761-12,780 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Funding (4 Dec 2018)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has not provided any funding or grant aid to this association from 1 January 2008 to date.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts Data (4 Dec 2018)

Leo Varadkar: The following table details the external consultant reports commissioned by my Department in each of the years from March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018. Name Costs Date of Commission Date of Publication Consultant Health and Safety Statement 2011 €1,270 2011 2011 QTS Ltd Health and Safety Statement 2012 €1,270 2012 2012 QTS Ltd Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts Data (4 Dec 2018)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has not awarded any contracts or tenders to the company in question.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: The interests of the whole island will be protected. I am sincere about that and I mean it. No matter what happens, we will look at this from an all-island perspective and not just from the vantage of this State. I recognise and largely concur with some of Deputy Micheál Martin's comments. The architects of the Good Friday Agreement, many of whom, including the former Taoiseach,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 10, inclusive, together. I spoke by phone to the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, on 5 November, when we discussed the current state of the Brexit negotiations. We both emphasised our commitment to avoiding a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland and the need to make sure that we had a legally operable backstop. The Prime...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I think what I said in the Dáil yesterday or previously is that no Government can be fully prepared for a no-deal Brexit, not us, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Belgium or anywhere. However, we will be as prepared as we can be and that involves the hiring of Revenue and customs officials, which is very much under way, for our ports and airports. It involves the hiring of veterinary...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: The Tánaiste, the Secretary of State and I have some thoughts as to how we might proceed and how we might try to make another attempt to get the parties together and get an Executive and assembly up and running. Outlining that on the floor of the House with everyone listening is probably not the most conducive way to get an outcome. I will have a follow-up meeting with the assembly...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----who would be a senior republican, if I might put it that way. Among the documents uncovered in the inquiry was an email from Mairtín Ó Muilleoir to Ted Howell, a senior republican who held no elected office whatsoever, asking if he would be content for Mr. Ó Muilleoir to "sign off the business plan on Wednesday". That is documentary evidence that Sinn Féin Ministers...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: To be very honest with Deputy McDonald, I do not know who took that photograph and I do not know if any public money was expended by the taking of the photograph. It is possible that Senator Mulherin got somebody to take the photograph for her on her phone, in which case no public money was-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I will check into that. I will have that taken down. I do not know which website it is on but I will certainly check into it. We need to be realistic about this. Deputies and Senators who are not Ministers, including those from the Opposition, turn up at Government announcements-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----as do candidates. I am not sure.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: It might be overkill for me to issue an instruction that anybody who is not a Minister, including Opposition Deputies, be airbrushed out of any photographs that appear on a Government website. In fairness, that is not what the Deputy is suggesting-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----but if we were to take what she is claiming to its natural extension, what she would want us to do would be to airbrush out from any photograph on merrionstreet.ieor any Government website pictures of people who are not Ministers, including of herself or her colleagues. I just think that would be overkill. I appreciate that she needs to find something to raise and I will certainly look...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: They chose them by their own volition so that is a false allegation-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: -----and it should not be repeated.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: Both editors have confirmed that they chose the photographs and were not told or asked to pick any particular photographs.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: On the video for the UN Security Council campaign, I understand it was funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade so the Deputy would need to raise that with the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I do not know the answer. The Deputy can raise it with the Tánaiste. He will be here tomorrow.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to answer questions Nos. 2 to 4, inclusive, together. I visited Derry city on Friday 26 October, where I had several engagements. I was pleased to visit the Apprentice Boys headquarters and museum where I enjoyed a tour of the museum. I also had the opportunity to meet the chairman of the management committee, Mr. William Moore, and some of his colleagues. I then visited...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I concur with Deputy Micheál Martin. Mr. Mark Durkan very much deserves his honours. He was a very effective politician as a Minister and an MP. He is an able persuader and a witty and articulate parliamentarian. He made a very thoughtful but also very witty speech on the night. I regret that he lost his seat because it has left the city of Derry unrepresented in Westminster, which...