Leo Varadkar

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Govt to extend some cost-of-living supports - Varadkar (RTE.ie)

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said there will be a "social welfare and pensions element" to further cost-of-living measures to be announced for the spring.

and we have a lot of schemes now in place," he said. "And one of the things we will make a judgment call on this week is some additional welfare payments. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. "And that's because people on pensions and people who are receiving social welfare payments, they're the ones who are really struggling the most with the high cost of living and we have to help them." "What I can say is that there will be a social welfare and pensions element to the cost of living package for the spring. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said there will be a "social welfare and pensions element" to further cost-of-living measures to be announced for the spring.

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Spring cost-of-living package to include 'social welfare and pensions ... (BreakingNews.ie)

There will be a “social welfare and pensions element” to further cost-of-living measures to be announced in the next fortnight, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has ...

1/ 1 in 5 parents stated over the past 12mnths at some point they did not have enough food to feed their children. “And one of the things we will make a judgment call on this week is some additional welfare payments. “And that’s because people on pensions and people who are receiving social welfare payments, they’re the ones who are really struggling the most with the high cost of living and we have to help them.”

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Double child benefit payment on the cards as coalition parties at ... (Independent.ie)

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are at loggerheads over how to address the on going cost-of- living crisis.

Government leaders will also look at the possibility of introducing another electricity credit. The source said family welfare supports, a double child benefit payment and more fuel allowance support would be preferred. “Minister McGrath will want to see all the figures before he makes a presentation to the government leaders on what can be achieved and even then it will depend on the dynamic of the three leaders,” a government source said. [Fianna Fáil](https://www.independent.ie/topics/fianna-fail-40346876/) and [Fine Gael](https://www.independent.ie/topics/fine-gael-40346878/) are at loggerheads over how to address the on going cost-of- living crisis. With a series of emergency measures set to expire at the end of the month, coalition leaders will make a decision on Thursday on what can be scrapped or continued. It comes as ministers are being asked to “put their cards on the table” and set out their demands ahead of a crunch meeting later this week.

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Pensioners and welfare recipients to receive 'additional' cost-of ... (Irish Examiner)

Finance ministers Michael McGrath and Paschal Donohoe will meet on Thursday to discuss which benefits are to be scaled back.

We know the HSE has offered a number of buildings that were examining now.” Mr Harris, however, backed his Cabinet colleague saying: “The minister is doing an excellent job. The Department of Justice has offered Thornton Hall for example. Each fine is up to €1,500. The Department of Higher Education is offering student accommodation during the summer period. So we will bring forward a revised package that is both targeted and universal very shortly,” he told RTÉ’s.

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Una Mullally: Leo Varadkar revisits the past – in the comfort of the ... (The Irish Times)

Bertie Ahern: the Fianna Fáil version of events is where the peace process is used as shield to deflect criticism about all the other things that have nothing ...

Time may heal some wounds, but it tends to do so effectively for those with the faintest of scars. The reality is, were Varadkar to repeat his past criticism of Ahern in the present it would make things uncomfortable, and disrupt the maintenance of power. Both parties are in a new era, and the past is the past. Perhaps, that day, O’Brien had already hopped in the DeLorean, quantum leaping back to 2006, to be found on the outskirts of Dublin nodding sagely while developers barrelled around soon-to-be ghost estates screaming “Roads? His stinging 2008 criticism of Ahern can be seen now, as Varadkar put it, as something that happened “at a particular point in time”. It is somehow responsible for every single thing deemed “good” that happened at any given time, which is a difficult thing to spin while simultaneously pretending anything “bad” was someone else’s fault.

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