Results 1-20 of 52 for destroyed speaker:Leo Varadkar

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Leo Varadkar: We do not find bins full of destroyed passports or documents and we do not find them flushed down toilets. Most of these people, Deputy, are trafficked. They have been subject to a crime themselves and the Deputy should admit that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...the UN and exempt ourselves from international law and become some of a hermit kingdom, that will continue to be the case. That is just not common sense. It is not always the case that people destroy their documents. We do not find destroyed documents in bins or bathrooms. What happens is that they are trafficked into the country and the person who trafficked them takes the IDs off...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...unprovoked violence. I am thinking of the aid workers, the journalists and the citizens of Palestine and Israel, who are innocent in this appalling situation and whose lives have been needlessly destroyed. We condemn all those who seek to cause suffering of others. Ireland continues to reiterate our call for all hostages to be released immediately and unconditionally. The truce also...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...should not be taken lightly. It should not be taken as the normal cut and thrust of politics. It has consequences and it can be corrosive to the wider justice system and public safety. In the past few weeks, we have seen the resignation of the Chief Constable in Northern Ireland. Here in this Chamber, we have seen justice Ministers have their reputations destroyed, with the Chamber and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Trade Missions (15 Nov 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ..., including terrorist organisations that wanted to bring down this State and terrorist organisations that committed terrible war crimes in Northern Ireland. I do not remember anyone ever thinking it justifiable to destroy a whole hospital because there might be a terrorist in it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...circumstances and often at great risk to their personnel. UNRWA alone has seen just under 100 of its employees killed and many of its clinics and schools, including those sheltering civilians, damaged and destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces. It is, however, committed to staying there to help the civilian population as best it can. As the House is aware, large numbers of civilians...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...light of what has happened to interconnectors, gas pipes and telecommunication terminals around Europe in the past year or so, we have had to revisit our policy because we have seen gas pipelines destroyed and damaged, not just in Denmark but also between Estonia and Finland. We believe that reliance on the interconnector from the UK is too big a risk and a risk we have to mitigate. ...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...encouraged to do so by Government and given Government grants. For many of them, this would potentially have been their pension. Now, through no fault of their own, they see their crop has been destroyed. For similar crops in similar circumstances, we would provide a compensation package. We are examining it seriously and sympathetically. We just need to see what is being done in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ..., about seven years, during which almost no new homes were built in this State. This followed a financial crash when the Government was broke, the banks were bust and the construction industry was destroyed. Two thirds of construction workers had to leave the country. This is why we have a huge deficit of housing that we have this State. This Government, and the one before it and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...stock than in any year since the 1970s. The recent census figures show the percentage of households benefiting from social housing increased in the past ten years and not down. This totally destroys the argument that this Government and the previous Government were somehow uninterested in social housing. Some 40,000 more families are in social housing than there were ten years ago. The...

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

Leo Varadkar: ...is held privately. I appreciate that the Deputy is talking about more than that. She is concerned with giving people access to records relating to them and ensuring that those records are not destroyed and are held in a way in which people can access them. That is something I am briefed on, but I have not been briefed on it for several weeks. I know that the working group is due to...

Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ..., as a country, to a sphere of obedience beyond its borders. It does not. In marking this terrible anniversary in the House, I recall two things in particular. The first is that this is about a civilian population under attack, lives lost, opportunity stolen and whole towns destroyed. This war stops when Russia stops. Ukraine cannot stop defending itself. It is about Ireland standing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...not properly checked when they get on the plane. That happens in a different jurisdiction and there is very little we can do about it. Other times people use false documents. Sometimes, people destroy their documents. If people present at the airport to claim asylum and have no documents, it is very difficult for us to send them back. These are the practical difficulties that we face....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...is done through the European Competitiveness Council, COMPET, so the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, attends that rather than I. We do want to get it right. Companies that use child labour or destroy the environment need to be called out for doing so, and consumers have a right to know when they buy a product or service that child labour is not used, that people are not exploited and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...that we can contain costs and make sure the money is spent most efficiently. It is based on an independent index compiled by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland. If a house is damaged or destroyed by lightening or knocked down for some reason, this is the amount the insurance company will pay out per square foot. It is an objective index. It is updated every year and we would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...not just about disagreeing with people but saying that the people that Sinn Féin disagrees with are lesser people and do not care as much. That is pure left-wing populism. That kind of populism has destroyed politics in many other democracies. Sinn Féin represents that in this country. I hope that will become more obvious to people over the years. It should be possible to...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy does not want to hear it - where he said that Fine Gael was responsible for destroying general practice and the health service.

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...party to attention, which clearly threatens to campaign against us. Many Members were at the rally which he organised on Molesworth Street where he told everyone that Fine Gael was responsible for destroying the health service so he was certainly not a political supporter at that point, far from it.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais: Tairiscint - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (27 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...xfa; ar athrú aeráide atá riachtanach chun ár dtír agus ár bpláinéad a chaomhnú. Our country has been through a terrible emergency in which many people have lost their lives and more have had to live with illness and fear of illness. Jobs have been lost, businesses destroyed and our economy upended. Across the world, countries have been badly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Our housing market was destroyed. Our construction industry was destroyed.