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Leo Varadkar
Biography
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Leo Varadkar's high-income aspirations for Ireland; Mattie McGrath speaks up for the "little people"
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Tánaiste Leo Varadkar argues that Ireland needs to do more to ensure it can defend itself
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Leo Varadkar and Michael Healy-Rae have heated exchange in the Dáil
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Pearse Doherty and Leo Varadkar get personal in the Dáil
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Leo Varadkar and Pearse Doherty launch personal attacks on each other in the Dáil
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Today, we launched the National Childcare Scheme to help parents meet the cost of childcare. https://t.co/HsrnA8N71v
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We marked #InternationalWomensDay by ratifying the Istanbul Convention, a really significant development. #IWD2019 https://t.co/5GFYzBofby
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Today: Julianstown ➡ Drogheda ➡ Dundalk ➡ Belfast. All along the M1 corridor. https://t.co/KIvmNhAqym
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People from across Ireland came together this week to plan for Brexit https://t.co/btVuhGlXln
Leo Eric Varadkar is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He has served as the Leader of Fine Gael, and as Taoiseach and Minister for Defence in the Government of Ireland, since June 2017. Following the 2020 Irish general election in which Fine Gael were returned as the third largest party behind Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, Varadkar resigned but remains in office as caretaker Taoiseach until a successor is appointed. He has also been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since 2007.
Personal
Fingal County Council (2003–2007)
Dáil Éireann (2007–2011)
Minister for Transport, Tourism, and Sport (2011–2014)
Minister for Health (2014–2016)
2017
2018
2019
2020
Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (2020–present)