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	<title>Leo Varadkar</title>
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	<description>Fine Gael Spokesperson for Enterprise, Trade and Employment &#38; TD for Dublin West</description>
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		<title>Double Whammy Price Shock: Sept electricity price review on top of Oct levy hike</title>
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Fine Gael Communications &#38; Energy Spokesperson, Leo Varadkar TD, today (Monday) warned that electricity bills face a double whammy as a separate price review is due in September on top of the €156 million levy due to be imposed in October to subsidise peat and renewable energy generators.
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		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1113</link>
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		<title>Electricity price hike in store as €156m levy hits must be halted by Minister Ryan</title>
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Shock for consumers and business. Low paid and elderly will be hit hard.
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Fine Gael Communications &#38; Energy Spokesperson, Leo Varadkar TD, today (Sunday) said a hike in electricity prices in October will horrify consumers and businesses and hit the low paid and the elderly particularly hard.  Deputy Varadkar has called on Minister Ryan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1110</link>
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		<title>Return air ticket to Glenties cost me €55 yet Min. Dempsey spends €7,890 an hour on Govt. Jet</title>
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It’s simple: the Minister and his colleagues are out of touch
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It speaks volumes for the disdain with which the Government views the taxpayer that a Minister sees fit to splurge thousands of Euro of public money by using both the Government Jet and his Ministerial vehicle to attend the McGill Summer school, according [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1107</link>
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		<title>Varadkar welcomes reversal of cuts imposed on Daughters of Charity services for the  intellectually disabled in Dublin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fine Gael TD for Dublin West, Leo Varadkar has welcomed an agreement between the HSE and the Daughters of Charity Service (DOCS) which will allow for the reinstatement of most of the respite and other services for the intellectually disabled that were closed last month.  This follows a vigorous campaign against the cuts led by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1103</link>
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		<title>Varadkar challenges Lenihan to say whether Metro West is going ahead</title>
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Fine Gael TD for Dublin West, Leo Varadkar has called on the Minister for Finance to ‘come clean’ on METRO WEST and to say whether or not it will be built and when.  Metro West will run through the western suburbs of Dublin linking Blanchardtown, Liffey Valley and Tallaght.  It will interchange with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1105</link>
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		<title>270,000 jobs claim in Govt’s capital programme is ‘complete codology’</title>
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Real figures show net loss of 9,000 jobs and lost opportunity to support 30,000 more
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Fine Gael Communications &#38; Energy Spokesman, Leo Varadkar TD, has described as ‘complete codology’ Government claims that the new capital programme announced yesterday would create 270,000 jobs.
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“This year, the Government will spend €6.5 billion on capital projects supporting about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1099</link>
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		<title>Fintown Railway</title>
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Leo visits Fintown Railway in Co. Donegal with Fine Gael by-election candidate Barry O’Neill, Dinny McGinley TD, Cllr Terence Slowey, Cllr Eithne Loftus and Cllr Kieran Dennison
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		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1096</link>
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		<title>Govt announces ‘NewERA for slow learners’ Policy Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fine Gael has offered to advise the Government’s Review Group on State  Assets in order to help Fianna Fáil and the Greens to implement this  carbon copy rip-off of Fine Gael’s NewERA plan, according to Deputy Leo  Varadkar TD.
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The Fine Gael Communications Spokesman said: ‘It’s a pity the Government  did not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1093</link>
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		<title>Worst broadband in EU is also third most expensive</title>
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A new survey showing that Ireland’s broadband is the third most expensive in the OECD rubs salt into the wounds of Irish customers, who already have the worst broadband service in Europe.
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The National Competitiveness Council’s new report confirms that Ireland has the third most expensive broadband out of 28 OECD countries, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1090</link>
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		<title>Kill Long Term Economic Value and transfer NAMA loans at market value</title>
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Speaking to the MacGill Summer School in Glenties last night (see script here), Fine Gael Communications and Energy Spokesman, Leo Varadkar TD, said that the ridiculous concept of Long-Term Economic Value should be abolished with regard to NAMA and the remainder of the loans to be transferred should be bought at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=1085</link>
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