Results 23,981-24,000 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's personal health is none of my business but what is my business is that he is the elected leader of his party and he is here in the House, and properly so. He is making comments to the effect that the health service is crumbling and the people who work in it, despite their competence and love of the issues involved, are not good enough for the Deputy.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy can see my concern for his well-being and health.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: I see-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: With regard to the waiting list issue mentioned by the Deputy, later this week the Minister will publish figures and even the Deputy will be surprised at the extent of the improvement in terms of persons having to wait for very long periods for attention in Irish hospitals. I hope that when the figures are published this week, the Deputy will appreciate the professional staff involved who...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy mentioned medical cards and the Government made a decision this year to give free GP cards to those under five. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy White, is dealing with this, and the parents of 240,000 children will benefit. We are moving to a point where every person in the country will be entitled to GP coverage, as we approach the time to introduce...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: I accept there are concerns and anxieties expressed by people across the country.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is right that in a democracy we have always had differing views about major pieces of infrastructure, such as motorways, turbines-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----pylons, gas connectors, major buildings etc. This is very normal in Ireland. I also believe that our people are well able to make decisions at the end of the day in respect of the best action to take in the interest of our country. We need to be able to provide an infrastructure that will cater for the next 50 years - for those who come after us - in the context of power supply,...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: He extended the period of consultation until mid January and he has now received over 30,000 applications, views and submissions.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Many of them repeat the issues but add to the number. The Minister will come back to the Government in the next week or two, I would think, with an initial assessment of the implications and issues raised by the people who took the time to make submissions.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has correctly pointed out that the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, wrote to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte. What did he write about?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: He wrote about the concerns of people giving out to him about the undergrounding of the cable through Rush, which in some cases was less than a metre from doors. He was entitled to express that concern, as somebody could with regard to overhead pylons etc. There is a very long way to go with this, Deputy Healy-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: We must decide-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: We must be very clear. The challenge is-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----finding the best way, in the interest of the country, to provide infrastructure. Deputy Finian McGrath may well laugh.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: If your constituents in Clontarf had an underground cable less than a metre from the door, they might be concerned too.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy may smirk and laugh if he so wishes. We need the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, to come back to the Government with his initial analysis of the 30,000 applications that have been sent in. EirGrid will follow that.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is a process in which there has to be proper, full, thorough, comprehensive consultation.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Healy should note I am used to it over very many years. The result has to be that one makes a decision in the best interest of our country, using the best approach.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: EirGrid has not defined the lines in a number of cases, as the Deputies know.