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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Websites (3 Oct 2017)

Leo Varadkar: My Department's website (is not currently being updated. The last time my Department's website was updated was in 2013 at a cost of €9,014.50.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (3 Oct 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I have raised the Dublin/Monaghan Bombings and other legacy cases with Prime Minister May and have stressed the importance of making progress on legacy issues and the overall arrangements for dealing with the past. The Government will continue to engage with the British Government in relation to the Dublin-Monaghan bombings, and pursue all possible avenues that could achieve progress on...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Communications (3 Oct 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I wrote to Angela Merkel on 26 September to congratulate her on her re-election and her fourth term as German Chancellor. I also had the opportunity to speak with the Chancellor in the margins of the Digital Summit in Tallinn last week, when I offered my congratulations in person. I thanked her for her support to date in relation to Ireland's particular concerns arising from Brexit, and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Reports (3 Oct 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The 2016 funding for the North East Inner City was not allocated for the implementation of the Mulvey Report which was published in 2017. Following the initiation of the work in the North East Inner City in June 2016, a number of short term measures were announced to meet some of the obvious immediate needs of the area. These measures included much needed physical improvement works to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I mentioned Arlene Foster as well. It is the strong view of Government that the Northern Ireland Executive should be functioning. People in Northern Ireland want and expect devolved government and it is important that Northern Ireland should have a unique voice. As Deputy Burton pointed out, there is a Scottish First Minister and a Welsh First Minister. There is a Scottish Parliament and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: It is not good enough always to be asking others to make compromises. Politics is about compromise and Sinn Féin will have to make compromises to allow an Executive to be established.

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: This is the constant pattern of the debate we have in this Parliament.

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The only time the Deputy is not scripted is when she is interrupting.

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Is it any small wonder the people of Northern Ireland-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Is it any small wonder that the people of Northern Ireland do not have a First Minister or a deputy First Minister?

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Is it any small wonder the people of Northern Ireland do not have an Executive or an Assembly? It is because this is the attitude of Sinn Féin. They are constantly hectoring and making smart aleck remarks. There is a lack of temperance, a lack of respect for other people and an inability to listen or to compromise.

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: It should be of no wonder whatsoever that the people of Northern Ireland have no government and have no voice. The style of politics, debate and negotiation favoured by Sinn Féin is to interrupt people and shout them down-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: They shout them down and show total disrespect for anyone who does not share their views.

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I am laughing at the Deputy, not the issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy is very cranky today.

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: There were not any staff of the strategic communications unit in Downing Street with me. If Members of this House do not know it already, they should not believe everything they read in the papers. That simply was not the case. Obviously, if there is a role for people to communicate what the Government is doing, it might be appropriate for them to be there. I am not saying it would not be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: It is a little bizarre to hear Deputy McDonald talk about the absolute commonality between my party and the British Conservatives and then to talk about Brexit. My party is and has always been a very pro-European party that is committed to European integration. Up until very recently Sinn Féin wanted Ireland to leave the European Union. It opposed our entry into it and has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: At least when it comes to issues such as European affairs the euroscepticism of the Sinn Féin Party very much mirrors the euroscepticism of the British Conservative Party.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I am also a little bit amused to hear Deputy Burton refer to my love of the media and their love of me. On the rare occasion that I open the Sunday newspapers and flick through them I do not feel that they love me or that I love them for that matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I will move on and answer some of the questions. My view is that communication is a virtue. Citizens have a right to know what their Government is doing.. They have a right to know the full story about what is going on and they also have a right to know how taxpayers' money is spent. There is huge fragmentation out there. One needs to just think of the number of different Departments and...