Results 17,741-17,760 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I absolutely accept Deputy McDonald's point that the United States does have a global reach and that makes it different from most other states, but I do not accept the hypocrisy that I see so often in this House of people turning a blind eye to oppression, execution, detention without trial, banning elections, free association and free speech-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----just because those regimes style themselves as left-wing. It is the hypocrisy I find hard to accept.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I am glad the Deputies do not deny that they do it, because they evidently do in the fact that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputies know the point I am making.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Never have any shame in shouting people down when one cannot bear to listen to other people and listen to the truth.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: This is the kind of thing that regimes like Cuba and Venezuela do. They try to suppress-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Once again, the truth hurts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: That is on display today. This is the classic tactic of shouting someone down when one does not agree with someone. I agree with the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty. It is the standard tactic of the left to ascribe beliefs and opinions to others that they do not hold-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----and then attack them for holding those opinions they do not hold. It is a regular tactic of the left to tell someone what they think and what they believe and then attack them for those.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I was mid-answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I was trying to answer, but as is so often the case within 15 seconds I was interrupted and shouted down. I do not think I shouted down anyone or interrupted. Those are the tactics that we have become too tolerant of in this House. To answer Deputy McDonald's question about the undocumented Irish, that issue remains at the top of our priorities in terms of our engagement with the United...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, together. I have not had any direct contact or engagement with President Trump or the US Administration since my election as Taoiseach, although I have spoken to the chargé d'affaires by phone. However, I expect to receive a short phone call from President Trump later this afternoon. I expect this to be a brief congratulatory...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: To use the term "evil" is to employ very strong language. The Deputy would have more credibility if she used it in regard to other forms of evil, such as the Bolsheviks, who put people into gulags, set up a secret police-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It is a fair response and------
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I have not yet had the phone call with President Trump but I am fairly sure that at some point in my interactions with him, assuming we are both still in office next March, we will be discussing LGBT rights. I will not shirk from raising issues such as climate change, LGBT rights and so on with President Trump.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I guarantee that I do not expect-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I do not expect that I would ever get any kudos for exposing the far left. I am sure I would only get opprobrium. It is not very long ago that Deputy Coppinger and her Party were celebrating the Bolshevik revolution as one of the great events in history but what it led to, as we know-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I know the Deputy believes it was one of the great events in history. However, what it led to was the ending of a democracy because there was a democracy in place until the Bolsheviks----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: There were democratic elections. Alexander Kerensky was democratically elected-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The Soviet Union ended democracy, established gulags, put people in concentration camps, set up a secret police, ended free speech and stopped all elections. However, the Deputy's view is that that was the greatest event in history.