Results 15,541-15,560 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Irrespective of the legislation, which has not yet passed through these Houses, becoming law or being signed by the President, the national planning framework will automatically go onto a statutory footing as a consequence of the fact that the draft motion was adopted in November.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Even if the legislation to which Deputies refer was passed, there would still not be a requirement for the final document to be passed by the Oireachtas. The requirement is for the draft to be passed by the Oireachtas and that the Government has regard-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----to any resolution the Oireachtas may adopt. The sad thing about this for people in all parts of Ireland is the extent to which politicians in opposition have wrapped themselves in process and procedure.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The important thing about project Ireland 2040 is the ambition it creates for Ireland, with 200,000 more people living in rural Ireland by 2040 and Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford growing at twice the rate of Dublin.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Instead of growing out into other cities, Dublin will grow up and there will be a much better quality of life. Backing this up is the €115 billion capital plan for investment in roads, railways, schools, hospitals and health care, as well as a huge package for climate change. This is a real vision for the country of the future and for a much better place than we have now, and the...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The planning framework will be on a statutory footing and that is one of the ways it will be different from the national spatial strategy. It was brought to this House and there was a vote on the draft in November.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Legislation has not been passed and, therefore, has not been enacted.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I wish to be associated with the Ceann Comhairle's comments earlier. It is almost impossible to answer questions in this House.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: If there was no vote, it was because it was unopposed. Somebody has to oppose something for a vote to be called in this House.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Either way, it is not relevant because the legislation to which the Deputies are referring is not the law. It has not been passed by the Dáil and Seanad and has not been enacted by these Houses or signed by the President.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----a border between Britain and Ireland, barriers to trade between Dublin and Holyhead and between Rosslare and Fishguard. That is what we are trying to avoid.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We do not want borders east-west any more than we want borders North or South.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I do not want a border between Dundalk and Newry any more than I want a border between Dublin and Holyhead or between Rosslare and Fishguard. Of course we are trying to get to a point, working with the British and negotiating as part of the European Union, where we avoid new barriers to trade and new barriers to the movement between Britain and Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: That backstop is there. We are insisting that the backstop be written into the withdrawal agreement.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The guidelines we have from two weeks ago allow for that.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputies have been pretty unsupportive, quite frankly.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The way legislation works is that it has to pass through both Houses of the Oireachtas and then be signed by the President before it becomes law. Legislation in the Seanad is not the law. There is no requirement that either the national planning framework or the ten-year infrastructure investment plan be subject to a vote of either House.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: They are Government decisions as they were in the past and will be Government decisions on Friday. Rather than talking about procedure, we should go back to first principles and ask ourselves why we need Ireland 2040-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----a ten-year infrastructure investment plan or a national planning framework. It is because we need to change what has been done in the past. We need to not repeat the planning mistakes made by others in the past. We need to make sure the trajectory of development in this country changes. We are projecting that there will be an extra million people living in Ireland by 2040. We need...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----and some other major towns to grow at a faster rate than Dublin, which is something that has not happened for decades or centuries. In order to do that we need to support those cities and large towns to unlock development sites particularly at their centre, places like the north quays in Waterford, Tivoli on the docks in Cork-----