Results 23,721-23,740 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: I expect it shortly. The Deputy also raised the issue of the integrated care agency. The document Future Health - A Strategic Framework for Reform of the Health Service 2012 - 2015, published in November 2012, recognises that the current hospital centric model cannot deliver the quality of care that is required by our people at a price the country can afford. For that reason, Government...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government is committed to introducing a universal GP service by 2016 as an essential component of introducing universal health insurance. As announced in the budget, it has been decided to commence the roll-out of the universal GP service by providing all children aged under five with access to a GP service without fees. The implementation of this particular measure will require...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: We expect the Health Service Executive (financial matters) Bill to come to Cabinet next week, on 17 December. In regard to the sensitive issue the Deputy raised about melanoma and the public health (sunbeds) Bill, the standstill period within the framework of the notification procedure to the European Union which one must follow pursuant to directive 98/34/EC ended on 2 December last. The...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: Both Bills will be published next year. The geothermal energy development Bill will be taken first. Obviously, work is advancing on them.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The environmental liability Bill will be published in the middle of next year. Yesterday, the Cabinet approved the pyrite resolution Bill which will be debated in the House next week. I will come back to the Deputy on the other matter he mentioned about the building regulations.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads of that Bill were cleared last July but I think it will be the latter half of next year before it comes to light. It is a complicated process.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the exchange of criminal records Bill were cleared last year. It will be early next year before it is published.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for publication of that Bill. I will give the Deputy an update on the work that is proceeding on it.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: These are both Private Members' Bills and discussion was held on them. In regard the Deputy's comment on saying things in the House and different things in constituencies, I refer him to a comment made by the late Jim Kemmy on that a number of years ago.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: It will be next year.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is next year, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have already dealt with this. There is no reason for the delay. The Minister will comply with the requirement on him to respond to the draft plan that is submitted by the HSE.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: He takes his time.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked what am I going to do about this; I am going to do a hell of a lot more than he did. I do not accept his premise-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: Thank you, Deputy Troy. I do not accept Deputy Martin's premise that repossessions have become accepted as the norm. It is beyond doubt that there will be some repossessions.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: Nobody likes to see houses being repossessed but it is not realistic to suggest that there will not be some repossessions. I do not accept the Deputy's assertion that repossessions have become the norm or that repossessions are a fundamental part of Government policy. They are not. We have made that perfectly clear on so many occasions. As the Deputy is aware, I think much to his...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: Clearly, for banks, about which the Deputy has been talking about having a veto over solutions, bankruptcy is the end of the line for somebody who goes through that process. Banks get nothing out of that and therefore it is in their interests to settle.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: I want to make it perfectly clear that there is no strategy either to force or encourage repossession of people's family homes.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: The answer is "No"; it is not necessary. The Deputy talks about sitting on the sidelines. Did I not hear him say on a radio programme some time ago that, unfortunately, the problem was that his Government did not bring in enough taxation and spent too much money publicly, which got us into this business? When the Deputy talks about denial, did I not see him vote against the exit from the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----facilities extended similar to those extended to Greece?