Results 1-18 of 18 for construction industry council speaker:Leo Varadkar

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I will participate in the March meeting of the European Council in Brussels tomorrow and Friday. The agenda will cover Ukraine, security and defence, the Middle East, enlargement, migration, agriculture and the European semester. There will be a discussion on specific foreign policy issues, including the death of Alexei Navalny and the situation in Belarus. Leaders will take stock of...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Leo Varadkar: I attended a meeting of the European Council on 23 and 24 March in Brussels. The agenda covered Ukraine; competitiveness; the Single Market and the economy; energy; and external relations. In his contribution to today’s debate, the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, will provide further detail on some of the external relations issues discussed, including Serbia-Kosovo relations,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (27 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...;D in the Region has also grown considerably in recent years. The city of Galway is a crucial part of the West’s attractiveness to FDI. IDA’s property investment programme for the West Region included the construction of Advance Building Solutions (ABS) in Castlebar, Co. Mayo and in Galway. An Advance Office Building (AOB) of c.45,000sqft was completed in 2018 in Parkmore,...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...for a new chapter in our recovery. It is guided by the economic recovery plan and sets out to restore our public finances to good health, to restore existing jobs and create new ones in areas such as construction, climate action, digital and the care economy and to reach 2.5 million people at work in Ireland by 2024, setting a new record. Budget 2022 provides a much-needed boost for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (15 Sep 2021)

Leo Varadkar: .... My Department provides research and secretarial support to the Group, and as part of the national skills architecture, the EGFSN's analysis helps inform the work of the National Skills Council, which advises on the prioritisation of identified skills needs and the allocation resources across the education and training system to address these needs. As part of its 2020 and 2021...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (15 Sep 2021)

Leo Varadkar: .... My Department provides research and secretarial support to the Group, and as part of the national skills architecture, the EGFSN's analysis helps inform the work of the National Skills Council, which advises on the prioritisation of identified skills needs and the allocation of resources across the education and training system to address these needs. As part of its 2020 and 2021...

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

Leo Varadkar: ...on some things, but there are some things we agree on, and one of those is that the core of the solution to the housing shortage is more supply. That is exactly what we are doing: building more homes, council houses and social housing for people on the housing list, more private housing, because most people want to buy their own home, and more homes for people to rent. More supply is...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...2040. The shovels are in the ground and Project Ireland 2040 is being implemented. While, understandably, there has been much focus on one particular hospital, there are three new hospitals under construction, one of which, the national forensic mental health service hospital in Portrane, will be completed very soon. Extensions are being built all over the country, including new wings...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (18 Apr 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...housing crisis. Eight or ten years ago we had a financial crisis in which the banking sector was destroyed and unable to lend to people who wanted to borrow or builders who wanted to build. The construction industry was destroyed and 100,000 construction workers left the country. Rebuilding and turning it around was never going to happen quickly. No matter who is in office, it will...

Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...are coming from with regard to the crisis we face with housing. We had a seven-year period after a severe economic crisis during which very few homes were built at all. The banks were bust, the construction industry collapsed and the Government was not in a position to build new housing because of the fiscal crisis. In that period, however, the population continued to grow and many new...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...for new tenancies and do not apply to them. In terms of social housing and public housing, part of the Deputy's analysis is correct. Due to the collapse of the banking sector, the collapse of the construction industry and the collapse and disaster in the public finances, we were not in a position to build public housing or social housing, or private housing, for very many years. However,...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Leo Varadkar: ...which the Government will and should be judged and my Department is contributing to it, directly and indirectly. The direct contribution can be seen, for example, in the dramatic turnaround in the tourism industry in the past three years, on which we will build further in 2014. There are 60,000 more people at work than there were this time last year, of whom 17,000 are in the hospitality...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Leo Varadkar: ...of State, Deputy Ring, to initiate a new sports capital programme, providing grants for local and regional facilities around the country. We will have to go ahead with a cut in current spending through a cut to the Sports Council budget. That cut currently stands at around €3.5 million but I hope to be able to alleviate that somewhat through some adjustments within my own Vote....

Topical Issue Debate: Marine Safety (25 Jun 2013)

Leo Varadkar: .... Fishing vessels over 24 m are surveyed in accordance with the provisions of the International Maritime Organisation's Torremolinos protocol, which was given effect in the European Union by Council Directive 97/70, as amended. Fishing vessels between 15 and 24 metres are surveyed in accordance with the provisions of regulations introduced by my predecessor in 2007. These regulations,...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (8 Feb 2012)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 215 and 216 together. The initial applications submitted by Donegal County Council to the National Roads Authority (NRA) for funding under the Specific Improvement Grants in 2012, in order of priority, along with the allocation provided in 2012 is outlined in the following table: Priority Project Amount Requested Amount Allocated 1 R263 Killybegs Industry...

Written Answers — Capital Investment: Capital Investment (9 Jul 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to the construction industry council's proposal to use private pension funds to bolster capital spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29589/09]

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (28 Apr 2009)

Leo Varadkar: ...on hard-pressed families. Another factor was the Government's pursuit of tax policies which fuelled a property bubble it should have sought to contain. In addition, we had an over-reliance on the construction industry for growth, jobs and revenues. Let us also remember that the Celtic tiger was based on Ireland being a competitive economy. This was undermined consistently in the past 12...

Competitiveness of the Economy: Motion (4 Dec 2007)

Leo Varadkar: ...us that Ireland's economy was at its strongest for ten years. It is fair to say that if that statement was uttered today, nobody would take it credibly. Amid falling house prices, a decline in construction activity, sliding share values, increased unemployment as measured by the live register and the quarterly national household survey, inflation and a worsening fall-off in tax receipts,...