Leo Varadkar

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Ireland's deputy PM isn't 'hugely optimistic' about the Tory leadership ... (The indy100)

At a time of uncertainty, where we're waiting to find out whether former chancellor Rishi Sunak or foreign secretary Liz Truss will succeed Boris Johnson as ...

“They still seem to want a row with Brussels, and that makes an agreement on the [Northern Ireland] protocol very hard. Mr Varadkar also went on to claim the Irish government doesn’t know “if they want a deal” because a deal is a compromise with Brussels “which goes down really badly with the Conservative Party members”. We’ll do our best to reset [them], but what the Conservative Party is fundamentally doing is two things.

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Less than 1000 people have applied for Covid redundancy payment (BreakingNews.ie)

455500 has been paid in the first two months of the scheme which provides workers with financial support from the State.

The maximum to which any employee will be entitled is €2,268 if they earned €600 or more a week and were laid off due to Covid-19 restrictions for the full period from March 13, 2020 to January 31st, 2022. The Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Act 2022 allows workers who were laid off due to Covid restrictions between March 13th, 2020 and January 31st, 2022 to apply for the payment, which will be up to €2,268 tax-free. The scheme was set up to ensure that employees who are let go, who are eligible for a statutory redundancy payment, and who were placed on lay-off due to Covid-19 public health restrictions are not disadvantaged in the calculation of their redundancy entitlements.

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Irish Deputy PM Is Not 'Hugely Optimistic' About Who Could Soon Be ... (HuffPost UK)

"Anyone, but Liz Truss" Leo Varadkar - "To be frank, I'm not hugely optimistic that a new Prime Minister will result in an improvement... as they want a row ...

So, any deal could be problem for the British prime minister because a deal, by definition, means a compromise.” It was opposed by unionists for separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK, but meant tensions on the island of Ireland could be avoided. Leo Varadkar, formerly the Taoiseach (Irish PM) and now the Tanaiste (Irish deputy PM), said he was not hopeful that Boris Johnson’s replacement would be able to repair the tensions between the UK and Ireland.

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