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- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is expected to have it by the end of the year, but the Cabinet has not yet discussed the heads of it.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Deputy got the data mixed up.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the publication of the Data Sharing Bill but I will advise the Deputy as progress is made on it, so he will be fully informed line by line.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Social Welfare Bill will be discussed next week.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for it. However, I remind the Deputy that the first full commercial licence for a lending bank in a number of years was issued recently by the Central Bank. It is applicable to firms. It is not a mainline bank but is for those who use technology produced by a company, Dell, located in the Deputy's constituency. It is one of a number of groups interested in acquiring...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have no date for the Noise Nuisance Bill. All is silent on that front.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: They are the figures given to me. They may not be correct, but I was talking about incentive.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There might be other benefits.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I was talking about incentive. The figures might not be correct, but I am talking about incentives.
- Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This Government has just passed the half way point in its term of office. Yesterday's budget has advanced three vital goals for the Government in the remainder of its term: first, to continue to correct the public finances so that Ireland can successfully exit the bailout on 15 December, signalling the end of the bailout era; second, to continue to create more jobs and accelerate the...
- Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: In fact, they commonly introduced changes that were the polar opposite to best international practice which was cruelly exposed during times of so-called full employment when Ireland still had a jobless household rate higher than the European average. Following the crash, the problem became endemic. To those young people, I say that the issue will remain a priority for Government for the...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: One of the fundamental reasons we need to make difficult choices and difficult changes in the structure of our health system is to cut the cost while preserving the services for those who need them. The main thrust of the changes being brought about is to protect services for those who need them - children, the sick and the elderly. We are doing that against a background of unmitigated...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin was a member of a group that ran this country-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----when we had more money that would ever have dealt with many of the major problems we have to face. He failed to reform that service. He promised to end hospital waiting lists within two years when he sat on these benches.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: During Deputy Martin's 14 years sitting at the Cabinet table, the overruns in health amounted to €2.2 billion. He was the architect of the PPARS debacle which started at €9 million and ended up at €200 million. Above all, he promised to extend medical cards to an extra 200,000 people during his term, when in fact he cut them by 100,000.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: He has the cheek to come in here now and use his opportunistic political opportunity to say these things. The Minister, Deputy Reilly-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----against the most difficult economic background, has managed in these past two years to make serious changes to the structure of our health system, reducing the cost of the services, but protecting the services.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin said the policy changes were directed at children, sick people and old people. I do not suppose, therefore, that he wants to change tack in respect of 240,000 children under the age of five having free access to GP care.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I know Deputy Martin understands this because when he was Minister for Health and Children and the chief medical officer of the Department at the time suggested that free GP care should be extended to every child in the country, he supported it but then ran away and did nothing about it, just as he did with most other issues he faced. In respect of discretionary medical cards, it is...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but because of the process of change, something was missed. I know of two cases where the card has been granted in the meantime because of the full information becoming available.