Results 15,161-15,180 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----to the company with which the SCU had a contract.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It is, therefore, the subcontractor, it is alleged, that did this, yet the assertion that Deputy McDonald is trying to make, the slur, the spin, the twist-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----that she is trying to put across is that someone in my office or the communications unit, or perhaps me personally, did this. If she has any evidence for this, let her present it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: In our political system every constituency is a marginal constituency. The last seat, if not the last two seats, in every constituency are marginal. The Deputy has his conspiracy theories about that. I have my conspiracy theory about the fact that two of the four controversial advertisements appeared in particular papers. The Deputy has a lot-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy has had a lot to say. I think I should be given extra time, in general, because I am constantly being shouted down.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Let us talk about slurs. I want to talk about slurs actually.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: There have been a lot of slurs bandied around. A lot of what the Leader of the Opposition has said has been personalised, it has been vituperative and it has even been venomous towards me and my staff and towards some people in the Civil Service. I regret this is the tone that he has adopted, but he has. Deputy Martin has made a lot of allegations, based largely on innuendo and conspiracy...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: How can the Deputy stand over such allegations?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy has nothing on which to base these allegations. He has made a lot out of an email that has appeared in the newspapers with an instruction that content should be laid out as normal editorial. This email is from August 2017, which predates the establishment of the strategic communications unit and it relates to Creative Ireland, an arts and culture promotional campaign.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: If this is so, why has the Leader of the Opposition consistently misrepresented that again and again, as though it came from the strategic communications unit-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----and as though it related to Project Ireland 2040? I will sit down but I need to say one last sentence.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The principal charge made against me by the Leader of the Opposition is that I have somehow blurred the lines between the Civil Service and politics.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Let us listen to what Deputy Martin said about freedom of information yesterday on "The Last Word".
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: He said they were refused first. He said that it was interesting that the Taoiseach had concealed a lot of information and it was interesting that there was opposition to revealing information that was contained in a freedom of information request that The Sunday Business Postreceived. They were first refused and then they went to the information commissioner for the reasons why the...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We have just gone through the worst snowstorm in 35 years and, perhaps, 70 years. As I speak, there are still 23,000 households without water.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Some parts of the country remain inaccessible by road and we have 20 Irish Water crews around the country trying to reconnect people to the water supply. The Leader of the Opposition's priority is the strategic communications unit.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Does it not say a lot about the misplaced priorities of both the Leader of the Opposition and the main Opposition party that when people all over the country----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----are working hard in their jobs or as volunteers to deal with the national crisis, this is the only thing in which they are interested?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: If I am not shouted down for a change, I will answer the questions. I will answer as many as I can in the time available.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It does show their priorities. It really shows why it is a good thing that the party that I lead and the Government that I lead, with the Independent Alliance and other Independents, is in office and not a party that is obsessed with spin and other people's communications.