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- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is not the case that delay is the order of the day here. Let me repeat what the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, NCPE, stated when it conducted its health technology assessment. It stated that "In view of the very high drug acquisition cost, the significant budget impact, the absence of long term clinical data and the fact that the company has failed to demonstrate the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and obviously it is an effective drug, but there is an issue that needs to be followed through. The next step in this process is for the HSE to meet the manufacturer of the drug in accordance with the procedures set out by IPHA. When the Minister for Health met them last year-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----he concluded a deal for €400 million over three years. This is a new very expensive drug with an impact for an estimated 113 to 120 patients.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not deny anyone having the right to have the best quality of life we can give them. It is a €26 million to €28 million impact on costs and obviously ceilings for this year's budget have been set. The HSE will now meet the company to see if some deal can be worked out here.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not want to pre-empt the conclusion of that.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I reject the Deputy's charge of threatening public service workers. We have set out a very clear position of mandating the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and his officials to negotiate with the unions in respect of savings that need to be made in the public sector, amounting to an additional cumulative amount of €1 billion between now and 2015. Those discussions are under...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----to work in Irish hospitals on a salary of €22,000 to €25,000, which is equivalent to what young accountants or teachers would get, in order to acquire experience and opportunities to build on their training in Irish hospitals and not to have the prospect of going abroad. I would have thought that somebody such as Deputy McDonald would welcome that 1,000 extra jobs are...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: As for Deputy McDonald's running down of the of the quality of graduate nurses in Ireland,-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----I say to her that is not the way to look at the training of young Irish men and women who graduate to become nurses. She is saying to them that they should not take up these jobs in Irish hospitals. These 1,000 jobs are outside the employment framework and I hope that many of those young trained nurses who have worked abroad and those from the three years' graduate classes involved...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: What is involved in the health sector is a change in structures and the manner in which the health service is delivered. What the Government has set to be achieved before the end of life of this Administration is a situation wherein front-line services are operating more effectively and a system whereby money follows the patient-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----who can then get treatment based on medical needs rather than financial circumstances. We also propose to introduce universal health insurance for everybody rather than allow the situation which has obtained in this country for years to continue.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: Sinn Féin wants to perpetuate a system which involves agency nurses, premium payments and overtime.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: What the Government wants to do-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----is to change the structure whereby agency nurses can be working one day in ICU, the next day in the respiratory treatment area and the following day in general wards. The system is not operating in the way it should. Savings made in this area will go directly to pay graduate nurses-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----who can gain experience and, based on their training, provide a first class service for patients.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: What Deputy McDonald and others are saying, which I regret, is that these jobs are not suitable for young nurses. We are creating 1,000 jobs in Irish hospitals for graduate nurses, whom I hope will take up those positions. It is always the case, Deputy McDonald, that the people inside the system who are being paid to deliver the quality service often complain about it. The service will not...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----is targeting redundancies in the areas of education, health, agriculture and back office administration while at the same time increasing numbers on the front-line service through the employment of graduate nurses.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I would also point out that Government has already made decisions in the budget which will impact on those on high salaries, not only in respect of people who have properties valued in excess of €1 million-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but in respect of pension reliefs for those with pensions in excess of €60,000, which, as the Deputy is well aware, will bring in €250 million. It is a case of not having increased income taxes for everybody but of making those who earn more pay more.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is equitable and fair and will be seen to be so. As regards the former politicians to whom Deputy McDonald referred-----