Results 15,201-15,220 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The whole point is that this is operating at arm's length. As my Department has confirmed, when it came to the regional newspaper advertorials, all the communications unit provided was the content of what was in the Project Ireland 2040 plan. No suggestions were made as to who should be interviewed. No people were put forward for interview. No photographs were provided. The content in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It is relevant because editorial control of the advertorials was with the editors.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: They were not written, designed, approved or signed off on by any civil servant, by me or by anyone in my office.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Deputy Micheál Martin quoted an anonymous newspaper editor yesterday in the Dáil. I would be interested to know who that anonymous newspaper editor was.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I would still be interested to know who it was.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I would be also interested to know if Deputy Martin-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I would be also interested to know if Deputy Micheál Martin believes it is ethical for somebody who is a newspaper editor and who is signing off on these things to be a Fianna Fáil candidate. I would also be interested to know if he has had any contact with the editor of the newspaper in that regard.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I do not see any reason-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----why anyone should be unwilling to answer those kinds of questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Many aspersions have been cast on people in the past couple of days.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Aspersions have been cast on the editors of regional newspapers, who have defended themselves today.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Aspersions have been cast on me, on civil servants in my Department and on other public servants. If people are concerned about casting aspersions, they should think about what they say as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: When it comes to casting aspersions, I wish to raise something with Deputy Burton. Last week, we had a finding of defamation against RTÉ after a Labour candidate made defamatory comments about a member of Sinn Féin with regard to their alleged connections with the IRA. In the view of the courts, that was not challenged adequately by the RTÉ presenter at the time. We had a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I am not thin-skinned by any means, but describing the Government, civil servants or any individual as being akin to Nazis, the third Reich or Goebbels is defamatory and beneath the level of discourse that should occur in politics and in this House. I want to put that on the record here. I want to know from Deputy Burton - who has no difficulty going off topic in many questions, as was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: However, this is a reference-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We have seen this from Deputy MacSharry also. This is a reference to the Holocaust.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: This is a reference to 6 million people who were exterminated-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----by the Third Reich and by the Nazis. Belittling the Holocaust and comparing an advertising campaign to the actions of the Nazis and the Third Reich is beneath contempt. I really hope-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I really hope that the Leader of the Opposition will dissociate himself from Deputy MacSharry's earlier remarks. I really hope Deputy Burton will take this opportunity-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----to dissociate herself from the remarks of her party's deputy leader.