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Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----or, as was clearly indicated by the chief executive yesterday, going before any of the Dáil committees, as appropriate, as regularly as is necessary. It is in everybody's interest that Deputy Adams' constituents and mine, and everybody else, have certainty about a supply of high quality water for consumers, their families, for business and for understanding that-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: One of the reasons many companies have come to this country is because of the scale of water we have and the potential to supply it to the highest level.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: We cannot have situations where the inconsistency that has grown up over the years-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----means that business and people are discommoded because of a lack of quality water. There was consternation in this city for several weeks before Christmas with difficulties out at the Poulaphouca reservoir.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The investment going into the utility called Uisce Éireann or Irish Water is to put an end to that and, over the years, to bring about a situation where we have an entity that delivers high quality water to the most efficient standards.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: To answer Deputy Martin's question, yes, the local authorities continue as agents of Irish Water in the delivery of those new standards.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: "No" is the answer to that question. Deputy Adams did not mention the fact the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, today announced €38 million in investment for people with disabilities and the elderly in their homes, and the improvement of those-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: He did not mention the fact Dublin City Council reversed the decision in respect of cuts for the homeless and that €3 million extra in grants was added by the Government. As Deputy Adams knows everything, he chose very conveniently not to mention the fact that €12 billion in investment goes into provincial and rural Ireland over the next seven years as a result of the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not agree. Deputy Donnelly is wrong when he said that this matter was discussed at Cabinet yesterday. There was no discussion about the under-fives or GP care at Cabinet yesterday. The Government made a clear decision to introduce free GP care for under-fives in 2014 as the first of a number of major steps leading to universal health insurance. Every parent and grandparent knows the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not know whether the GPs in Wicklow who met Deputy Donnelly speak for all the GPs in the country. The reason the Government made this decision is very clear. It is the Government's intention to move to the introduction of universal health insurance. The first step in doing that was to move to free GP care for the under-fives in 2014. The reason the decision was made as clearly as it...

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 22, Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 5, Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Private Members’ business, which shall be No. 132, motion re Irish Water, shall also take place immediately after the Order of...

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin does not want GP cards allocated.

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy does not want GP cards allocated.

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy does not want the GP cards-----

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy does not want the GP cards.

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is news to me that Fianna Fáil does not want the GP cards.

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I remember the €1 billion the Deputy took off the old people. He refused to accept any responsibility. I did not know that the Fianna Fáil Party was opposed to the allocation of GP cards for under fives. I did not know that. I am glad the Deputy has confirmed it. Might I say that the draft-----

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----service plan, as submitted by-----

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----the Health Service Executive to the Minister, included a figure of probity of €113 million for medical cards. The Minister, as was his right, was entitled to consider the draft service plan as submitted by the HSE and amended that. Clearly, that was a major shift-----

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----in his understanding-----