Results 15,701-15,720 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I am not aware if there is specific promised legislation on that. I know from my time on a local authority that where road opening licences were granted to a company the company was expected to leave the road as it found it or in a better state. When it does not do so, local authorities have recourse to the courts at that point.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Bill is currently being drafted. I have spoken to both the Minister for Health and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and requested that the Bill be published and brought to the House this year so it can be funded in the Estimates for next year.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Minister, Deputy Ross, takes questions every couple of weeks, as all Ministers do.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: He is available for Topical Issues and-----
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: He takes Minister's questions and he also does Topical Issues. To answer the Deputy's question, as I mentioned earlier, there has been a 35% increase in subvention for Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann, and Irish Rail combined in the past three years. There has been a capital investment of €5 billion between 2008 and 2016-----
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----75% of which went to Iarnród Éireann. What that has allowed, for example, is the opening of the new station in Oranmore-----
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----in Galway, the opening of the Phoenix Park tunnel which has improved services through to Kildare, and linking up the Luas to Broombridge station, which is another option for people on the Maynooth line. There have been increases in off-peak services. Integrated ticketing and real time passenger information have also been introduced so people know when the trains are coming. However,...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----investment in public transport in the years ahead. That is the case and we all understand this. Investment in new roads and public takes time. It takes many years and we lost ten years.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: We have a lost decade of underinvestment in housing, transport, and health care because of mistakes made-----
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----by other people.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Heads were cleared by the Cabinet a few weeks ago, as the Deputy mentioned, and it is on the priority list for publication in this session but I do not have an exact date yet.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I saw the note from the Deputy on that last week and I got a note this morning which informed me that funding to open those beds in Letterkenny had not been approved but it did not give me a reason as to why not. I asked why 170 additional beds were funded in other hospitals around the country and why Letterkenny did not make the cut. I do not know the answer to that yet, but perhaps the...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I have made the request myself to find out why because I would like to know.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: There is no programme for Government commitment on that matter.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I thought it was about NCTs and insurance.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I discussed this briefly with the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, and the Minister, Deputy Harris, and the other public representatives from Waterford just last week. It does seem the second mobile cath lab has produced results and reduced waiting times for patients who need cardiac procedures. It seems to me there is a strong case to keep it in place while the other review - a review...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I understand that report is old news. It relates to a rail review published back in 2016. As I said earlier, over the past three years there has been a 35% increase in the subvention for public transport, that is, Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann, so we are now increasing the subvention for public transport again. Capital spending is increasing, fares have risen, which has...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I do not have any objection to that. Four and a half hours are being allocated this week for Private Members' business and statements on the issue of broadband but if four and a half hours is not enough for everyone to make his or her contribution, I have no objection to the debate being adjourned rather than concluded so that further time can be provided.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: Iarraim ar an Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna an cheist a fhreagairt.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy and his party had several years in government to bring this about, but they did not do so.