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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff (11 Jul 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...Adviser to the Government Chief Whip Office of the Tánaiste Deirdre Gillane Chief of Staff (Tánaiste’s Office) Pat McParland Deputy Chief of Staff (Tánaiste’s Office) Alan Ahearne Special Adviser to the Tánaiste Diarmuid Lynch ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Leo Varadkar: We should all be actively supporting the building of additional housing in our communities. He deserves no reward, nor thanks, nor pats on the back for not opposing thousands of new homes in his constituency, or even for supporting them. Between April 2021 and May 2022 he has opposed 1,315 new homes in his constituency. Where would those people be living now Deputy, if he had his way?...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Staff (28 Feb 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ... Cliona Doyle Principal Officer Special Adviser Tánaiste Deirdre Gillane Deputy Secretary Chief of Staff Pat McParland Assistant Secretary Deputy Chief of Staff Alan Ahearne Assistant Secretary equivalent (part-time) Special Adviser ...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (31 Jan 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...Sarah O'Neill Principal Officer Cliona Doyle Principal Officer Tánaiste Deirdre Gillane Deputy Secretary Pat McParland Assistant Secretary Alan Ahearne Assistant Secretary equivalent (part-time) Diarmuid Lynch Principal...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (20 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...economic recovery, the impacts of the war in Ukraine on FDI, Ireland’s value proposition for future investment and a general discussion of client’s operations in Ireland. I also met Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in May. News of any potential job cuts is a cause of great uncertainty for workers and their families,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (20 Oct 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...2017. A search of records has indicated that the CEO of the company in question addressed an ‘Ambition North America’ Conference/Trade Mission in October 2019 which was attended by Minister Pat Breen, who was a Minister of State in the Department at that time.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (1 Apr 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is administered by the local authorities who pay landlords directly. Pat 4 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 made legal provision for the Housing Assistance (HAP) Scheme. The provisions of the Act were commenced and extended on a phased basis by various regulations and in particular by SI No 404 of 2014 – Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (1 Apr 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is administered by the local authorities who pay landlords directly. Pat 4 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 made legal provision for the Housing Assistance (HAP) Scheme. The provisions of the Act were commenced and extended on a phased basis by various regulations and in particular by SI No 404 of 2014 – Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Trade Missions (15 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Charlie Flanagan, T.D. with Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation official representation on the Trade Mission. Bahrain In 2019, Mr Pat Breen, T.D. Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection led an Enterprise Ireland Trade Mission to Bahrain. An official from the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (22 Jul 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...meaning that duties on 98% of products (tariff lines) that the EU trades with Canada have been removed. The reduced trade barriers, tariff elimination, simplified customs procedures and more compatible technical requirements all make it easier and cheaper for Irish companies of all sizes to export to Canada. International Trade Policy is a competence of the EU Commission under the EU...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (6 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...would not like to do anything that might cause people not to trust us on that. We need to be careful in our guardianship of the agreement. As somebody I admire immensely who Members will know, Ms Pat Hume, the wife of Mr. John Hume, always says, the Good Friday Agreement is the long-term solution. It is not an interim solution. We need to have regard to the fact that if people start to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...were at the centre of making the project a reality, with a decision in 2012 to go to tender and to ask public and private companies on the open market to bid. The Minister at the time was Pat Rabbitte. From an article in The Sunday Business Postlast weekend, I note that he supports the Government decision to go ahead with this. He was right when he made that decision, because one cannot...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Leo Varadkar: .... I am happy to confirm and clarify one or two things that were said in the last couple of days. I can confirm that in 2014 the memorandum brought to Cabinet by the Minister at the time, Pat Rabbitte, estimated that the cost of bringing high-speed broadband to 1,100 villages in Ireland would be up to €512 million. That was never the cost for connecting every home, farm and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...him. The position of the Government is the same. The United Kingdom Government made a commitment in 2001 at Weston Park to carry out a public inquiry under the Inquiries Act into the death of Pat Finucane. The Supreme Court decision shows that the reviews carried out to date were not compliant with that commitment and it is our strong view that the commitment should now be honoured by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter. The short answer to her question is "Yes". Needless to say, I never had the opportunity to meet Pat Finucane. He was killed over 30 years ago but I have read about him and know he was an honourable man. He was a lawyer and a human rights activist long before people even used that term. I had the opportunity in recent weeks to meet...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Protected Disclosures (18 Dec 2018)

Leo Varadkar: The Protected Disclosures Act was and is very reforming and innovative legislation. I think former Deputy Pat Rabbitte, the new chairman of Tusla, originally brought forward the legislation, although it may have been another Deputy. I remember supporting it from the Opposition benches as Deputy Howlin, as Minister, and other members of the previous Government brought it through the Houses....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...colleague, the Minister, Deputy Finian McGrath, on this issue. He fought for and secured a commitment in the programme for Government to have the Stardust fire looked at afresh. Former judge Mr. Pat McCartan, a former member of this House, carried out an inquiry. He acted independently and found that there was insufficient evidence to merit a reopening of this inquiry. Under Article...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...time other bidders were in place. Ultimately, it was up to the then Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, to decide whether accepting the invitation was appropriate. The Minister of State, Deputy Pat Breen, has no role whatsoever in the national broadband plan and, while we may all agree that passing on the invitation was unwise, I do not think it is a resigning matter.

Resignation of Minister: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...I want to put on the record of the Dáil that I met Mr. David McCourt on one occasion last March in the United States at a public event with the media present when I presented him with the SFI St. Patrick's Day Science Medal. This was reported in the media at the time. We did not discuss the national broadband programme. Yesterday evening, I sought a meeting with the former Minister,...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...When it comes to the issues of truth and reconciliation, everyone has a part to play. Yesterday I expressed in the Dáil the Government's strong view that there should be a public inquiry into Pat Finnucane's murder. The Tánaiste has met members of the family and will do so again. Truth and reconciliation require that everyone plays their part and that everyone who has...