Results 18,721-18,740 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: This is important and long-overdue, but also complicated, legislation. I understand that the heads are expected to be ready in June.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Tá brón orm. Níl mé cinnte ach iarrfaidh mé ar an Aire Stáit ar a bhfuil freagracht as an Gaeltacht an cheist sin a fhreagairt.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I am not aware of any point in the programme for Government that is specific to those buildings, but I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, to revert to the Deputy.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I will have to check up on that. Existing RSS participants can stay on it for life. I have made no policy decision to change that. There is a difference for the 500 new entrants, in that they can be on the scheme for up to six years in two three-year blocks. I am unsure as to what this is about, but I am happy to discuss it with the Deputy and find out what is the story. People who have...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: There is no legislation proposed or necessary on that matter so perhaps the Deputy will put it to the Minister for Health in the form of a parliamentary question.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: An additional 500 places were allocated to the rural social scheme for this year. Dozens of new participants are already taking part in the schemes which is very encouraging. It is both. It is an income support scheme for farmers on marginal land whose incomes are not adequate to pay the bills. It, essentially, gives them some off-farm income. It is not designed to take them off the...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Any such changes would require changes to primary legislation in the nursing home support scheme. I do not have a date for that legislation but I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy Helen McEntee, to contact the Deputy directly.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It is not legislation but it is a programme for Government commitment. I hope to bring the draft to the Cabinet sub-committee next week and subject to it being happy with it, I will bring it to Cabinet next month and publish it before the summer recess.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The legislation is being worked on. A great deal of work is under way between the Department of Justice and Equality and the Attorney General on that. We will progress it as soon as we can. The Government has put in place many supports and a great deal of advice for people facing mortgage arrears or facing repossession jointly funded by my Department and the Department of Justice and...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The legislation is being handled by the Minister of State and it is on the priority list. The intention in the Bill is to introduce a new form of mobility allowance precisely for the people to whom the Deputy referred. We absolutely accept that this has gone on for too long and we will conclude this as soon as we can but it involves ongoing discussions between the Departments of Health and...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Before I ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, to respond to Deputy Lisa Chambers, I express, on behalf of the Government, our total condemnation of the poison gas attacks in Idlib province in Syria yesterday. Such weapons have no place in the 21st century. They are indiscriminate, as is evident from the hundreds of people who have...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: While I do not have a date at the moment, there will be a further debate on Brexit in the Dáil next week.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: If the Bill is passed in the Dáil and subsequently in the Seanad, there would have to be a referendum on it. However, I am not in a position to set a date for a referendum today. As the Deputy will be aware, there are a number of issues on which referendums will be required in the period ahead. Dates for these referendums have not yet been scheduled. The Bill is progressive and...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I discussed this matter with the Minister for Health this morning and I confirm the Government will not support any proposal to remove tax credits from people who pay private health insurance.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy for raising a number of important issues affecting the Irish abroad and returning migrants and for acknowledging the Taoiseach's important contribution to the effort to resolve the problems facing undocumented Irish living in the United States in particular. I wish to record the fact that the Government has made the decision to extend voting rights in presidential...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I will discuss the matter with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I am due to discuss some other matters with him today. On the face of it, given that passports can be renewed online, it seems to make sense that people would be able to renew a driver's licence online provided we have on record the applicants safe II photograph. It should be possible to do this and I will discuss the matter with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross,...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
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- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: What is this total victory that Deputy Paul Murphy talks about? Everyone in this House accepts that water has to be paid for. The Deputy's total victory is that water continues to be paid for through general taxation.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: What does that mean? The same people yet again who pay for everything-----