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Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (3 Oct 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...network to accommodate this shift and providing the enhanced storage and interconnection capacity that will be required. We also discussed the industrial and development potential that will arise from Ireland tapping into the enormous renewable energy resource that we have on land and at sea. The possibility of Ireland producing far more electricity than we consume is very real. This...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...economic development. The plan includes actions across all sectors that will transform and improve life in Ireland. It will help us to break free from our reliance on imported fossil fuels and tap into our abundant resources of renewable energy. It will allow us to improve our buildings and homes to make them more energy efficient and much less expensive to heat. It will improve how we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2023)

Leo Varadkar: .... We provided substantial additional funding to private and voluntary nursing homes over the course of the pandemic and in recent years. That includes €149 million through the temporary assistance payment scheme, TAPS; the provision of personal protective equipment, PPE, and oxygen costing the State €75 million; and the new temporary inflation payment, TIP, scheme which was...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...retrofitting of all light fittings with LEDs and the installation of sensor lighting; increasing energy awareness among staff via workshops and regular communications; the installation of sensor taps in the main bathroom areas; the installation of brown waste bins and recycling stations; the removal of desk bins on a voluntary basis; and the installation of covered bicycle parking...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I will have to get some information on it. I am not an expert on it. I know it exists as one of the Enterprise Ireland schemes. It allows business to tap into the lean six sigma concept and have somebody review their systems and procedures with a view to becoming more efficient and more productive. It is very much in the management consultancy world that I read about but do not fully...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...35,000 or 40,000 houses being built every year, which is where we need to go to. No Government and no party, no matter the resources or the will, can just turn housing construction on and off like a tap. We had a collapse in this country's economy ten years ago. The Government was bust and did not build any housing for a very long time. The Fine Gael-Labour Party Government would have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Quality (5 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: ...to the results from samples taken to date in this estate. In accordance with the EPA/HSE Joint Position Paper on Lead, the HSE has advised Irish Water, as follows:- - As running the water from the cold tap in the kitchen sink (i.e. flushing) before using it for drinking or cooking may lower the level of lead, Irish Water should advise on appropriate flushing, testing and retesting to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (18 Oct 2012)

Leo Varadkar: The Integrated Marine Plan for Ireland, published by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in July of this year, presents a roadmap for the Government’s vision to tap into the economic potential of our seas, including marine tourism.  Land and seascapes combined with coastal communities and their associated culture and heritage have the potential...

Seanad: Tourism Sector: Motion (1 Jun 2011)

Leo Varadkar: ...follow up on the state visit and to take part in a series of engagements organised by Enterprise Ireland and Tourism Ireland. Later in the month, I will travel to Frankfurt with Tourism Ireland to tap the important German market. These efforts in accessing markets are being complemented by a radical change in our approach to visitors from new and developing markets through the new tourism...

Unemployment: Motion (23 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: ...this could create more than 30,000 jobs over two years. We are also asking the Tánaiste to give serious consideration to Fine Gael's NewERA plan. There is a considerable amount of money to be tapped into, such as hedge funds, pension funds etc. Many people have money in savings and we need to get that money invested in the economy. NewERA is our vehicle for doing exactly that....

Written Answers — Local Government Expenditure: Local Government Expenditure (7 Oct 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 380: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has conducted a value for money audit of the tap tips and water preservation campaign; the outcome of that audit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33448/08]