Results 16,581-16,600 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I do not know. There is no legislation promised on the matter and it is not a specific programme for Government commitment but I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, to respond to the Deputy.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: No report of that nature came to Cabinet today. As I indicated earlier, we have a solution, which is a new approach to calculating the State pension contributory, namely, the total contributions approach. It will come into effect in 2020. It will need to be legislated for. However, in the meantime, the Minister and her officials and officials of the Department of Public Expenditure and...
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: An tAire Tithíochta, Pleanála agus Rialtais Áitiúil.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The figure the Deputy mentioned is 2.5% of GDP. That is €5 billion. That is a lot of money, and the country has many demands and other priorities at present, not least housing and some of the other issues others have raised.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I cannot give the Deputy a timeline for this. What I can say is that we have moved from 30th place in the world in science and innovation up to tenth place, so we have made a lot of progress.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill is very close to my heart. The Deputy and I are architects of it and I am very keen for it to pass through the Oireachtas as quickly as possible. It has completed Committee Stage in the Seanad. The Government anticipated it would complete all Stages in the Seanad and, hopefully, be introduced into the Dáil before the recess but, if that is not to be...
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I think it has been established but I may be incorrect. I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, to answer the question by correspondence.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: There is no legislation promised on the matter-----
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----but funding for respite care will feature in the HSE service plan.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The new scheme will be legislated for in 2018.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: An tAire Dlí agus Cirt.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy will know that the various pension anomalies actually relate to four different sets of rules, some of which were changed in 2012 and some of which actually date back to 1961. The averaging rule dates back to 1961. The Minister for Finance's use of the word "bonkers" was in reference to the marriage bar, which ended in 1973 and which certainly was bonkers. That is a different...
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The situation will be rectified-----
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----by 2020 when we will introduce the new total contributions approach. Under that approach, it will not matter when a person made his or her contributions. Gaps will not matter. What will matter will be the number of contributions made over the period of someone's working life, namely, in the 50 years between the ages of 16 and 66. There will be generous provision to disregard periods...
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: A memo on the social welfare Bill was approved by Cabinet. It has to do with the budget changes.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The Government will produce its own legislation in respect of this matter. It will be better legislation. The relevant Bill will be published in the next two to three weeks. In such circumstances, I encourage the Deputy to wait to see the Government's legislation and judge it after she has seen and read it. I know she will want to do that and will not want to reject it before she has seen...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: In terms of the breakdown, the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, SBCI, has committed €881 million to its on-lending partners. The vast bulk of that, €400 million has gone through AIB, followed by Bank of Ireland, €200 million; Ulster Bank, €75 million; Finance Ireland, €51 million; First Citizen, €40 million; Bibby Financial Services,...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. He will appreciate that I am not au faitwith the inner workings of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland. I will certainly raise the matters the Deputy has raised with the Minister for Finance because it is essential that any public body should operate solely within the legislation passed by this House to provide for it. The Strategic Banking Corporation of...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The process of Garda reform is much very under way. We have an acting Garda Commissioner who I met last week. He is not retiring and will be in place until we are in a position to recruit a new Garda Commissioner, which we intend to do as soon as possible. Discussions are under way with the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland and the Policing Authority to make that happen...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy is very welcome back. I understand she was on a fundraising trip to the United States last week. I hope that went very well. In terms of the two reports the Deputy mentioned, the daft.iereport and the ERSI report both add to our understanding of this issue and they are both worth a read and worthy of consideration. I had the opportunity on the way in this morning to listen to...