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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----and people being able to travel freely, north and south, east and west. It also includes the retention of the reciprocity of civic rights, with Irish and British people being able to live and work-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----study, access housing, health care, education, welfare, pensions-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It had not. Those can be accessed in each other's countries as though people were citizens of both. It had not been previously agreed and certainly had not been written down in an agreement between the EU and UK in black and white. There are commitments relating to the Good Friday Agreement and to continue funding for INTERREG, which is important for regional development, to retain funding...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It allows us not to have-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It allows us to continue to trade between Britain and Ireland as we currently do. If one is a farmer or is involved in agrifood-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----has a small or medium enterprise or is an exporter, one will understand why-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----retaining open trade between Britain and Ireland is so important.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: At the moment, what we were seeking, which was in the December agreement, is written into the legal text of the withdrawal agreement. What is currently being negotiated and what phase two is all about is the negotiation of the withdrawal agreement-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----which is legally binding and what was in the agreement in December is now written into the legal text of the withdrawal agreement. As I said in December, phase one was only phase one. It was the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We need to remain vigilant and engaged.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I assure Deputies that we have been vigilant and engaged all along. Our objective in phase two, as I said at the time, was to make sure that what is in the December joint report is written into the legal text of the legal agreement in the withdrawal agreement in full. We have very strong support from the EU 27.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I am always involved in the cauldron of debates but when one is trying to answer the questions raised-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: No preparations or plans have been made with respect to a visit to Ireland by President Trump.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I will certainly take it on board. The reason they are all grouped together is that they all relate to bilateral meetings with Prime Ministers, who I met, when I met them and where I met them, but I will take that on board.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I will start by responding to the questions about cyberattacks and cyberterrorism. The director of the National Cyber Security Centre attended the Cabinet subcommittee meeting last week and gave us a presentation on the work of that centre, what is being done and what more needs to be done. Deputies will understand why I cannot disclose what is being done and what more needs to be done. It...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3, to 9, inclusive, together. I met the Estonian Prime Minister, Mr. Jüri Ratas, during his official visit to Ireland on 31 January. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Estonian independence. As a small EU member state approaching its own centenary, I congratulated the Prime Minister on Estonia's achievement and on the dynamic space it has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together. The committee last met on 8 February and the meeting was attended by Ministers and senior officials from the Departments of Finance; Public Expenditure and Reform; Foreign Affairs and Trade; Justice and Equality; Health; Communications, Climate Action and Environment; Transport, Tourism and Sport; Housing, Planning and Local Government;...
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I am not familiar with those particular contracts, but the way contracts work is they go out to public tender and people can tender for them. Whether the businesses are located in a rural or an urban area, one in the Deputy's home county or one in the next county, they are all free to tender. This is a democracy and this is a free market. That is all I can say about that. Regarding the...
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: My apologies. Regarding the last question, the MSD jobs will be in Swords, but the MSD investment in Carlow is a separate announcement that was just approved by the Government this morning. The Minister, Deputy Humphreys, will confirm that at a later stage. Regarding the job losses that Deputy Smyth mentioned, obviously the Government has enormous concern for anyone who is facing...
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It does not. That reference in A Programme for a Partnership Government in terms of infrastructure is NAMA funding infrastructure to access sites so that they can be developed. For example, the link road between the N2 and the N3 in the Tyrrelstown and Hollystown areas, with which the Deputy will be familiar, was part funded by NAMA thus allowing that land to be opened up for development....