Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In respect of the graduate nurses, the changes that have been made in recent discussions are because we want to lead to a position where young graduate nurses can have an assurance that it can lead on to full-time permanent nursing positions.

If Deputy Healy-Rae has information about a young nurse being threatened by somebody then I would like to have it because that is not the way business should be conducted. Everybody is entitled to courtesy and to have their case heard. Nobody is being threatened to accept anything in which the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, is involved.

On the question about the adaptability of housing for persons with a disability, the Minister of State with responsibility for housing, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan, who is sitting beside me, issued the details of the grants being expended and responded to a Topical Issue matter on the issue yesterday. The grants were awarded fairly but no more than anything else in the current economic circumstances there has been an overall reduction in the amount available for such capital grants. Deputy Healy-Rae’s county, no more than any other, received a fair allocation on a reduced basis from the Minister of State.

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