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- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: We cannot do that at present because the taxpayer does not have the resources to provide that level of finance for that necessary infrastructure.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy might like to talk about fracking in the Burren.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: As I said to Deputy Martin, Uisce Éireann is not the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: The figures I have heard-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: I will be very clear with Deputy Adams. He said he was fed up of opaque answers.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: Uisce Éireann does not set the level of charge here.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is perfectly entitled to send draft memos to the regulator if it so wishes. As I have said before - I hope this is clear - the level of subvention provided by the Government will determine the average metered charge that people will pay.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Government has not yet decided what that level of subvention will be. Various matters, such as the weight of metering, have to be taken into consideration. There is a need for a fair assessment of the water usage of houses that are not metered. Consideration must be given to categories of personnel in particular circumstances, such as people with particular medical conditions who need...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: A bit like the Deputy; "I was not a member."
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: Let me give the Deputy four clear answers. First, no decision has been made by the Government on the level of water charges. No decision has been made by the Government on the level of subvention. No decision has been made by the Government on any standing charge. The Deputy can take it that a decision has been made by the Government that this is not the privatisation of water services.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Healy raised this a number of weeks ago. No less than anyone else, I feel for patients who must go to hospital and those who find themselves in circumstances that are not at a premium level or who are not in the best facilities. I do not have the details Deputy Healy read out, although he raised this three weeks ago. I undertake to ask the Minister for Health for a report on the...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Healy is well aware that when we were spending €16 billion on the health system, the numbers on trolleys and the situation in hospital wards throughout the country were in very poor shape. Money is not the answer here.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: An agreement has been set out under Haddington Road for rostering and for changes in regard to all of these things. I have not had a report from-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: I have not had a report from the manager in South Tipperary General Hospital. There has to be a reason for the excess numbers who are on trolleys, as the Deputy pointed out.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not know if it is a particular issue with the health of some people in the area or what the reasons are for having 29 patients on trolleys. I have offered to find out for the Deputy but he should not expect me to say that we can employ X number of extra people tonight or tomorrow or that we can open beds.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is not dealing with reality there. There has to be a reason for this. The management of the beds in every hospital is a matter for the hospital chief executive and the hospital manager. I do not have a report from them in respect of what the Deputy raises here. I have undertaken to find out for the Deputy from the Minister of Health, through the HSE, what the exact situation is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government Information Service (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Government Information Service does not have a policy on issuing reports or press releases on St. Stephen's Day.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government Information Service (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: The question I was asked by Deputy Martin was if the Government has a policy of the Government Information Service sending out reports or press releases on St. Stephen's Day, and if I would make a statement on the matter. I have answered that by saying there are no policy issues in that regard. This was the report entitled Review of Measures to Reduce Costs in the Private Health Insurance...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government Information Service (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: The question was whether there is a policy on the part of the Government Information Service of publishing documents on St. Stephen's Day. I have answered clearly that there is no such policy. If such a policy existed, Deputy Martin would say we should have published half a dozen reports last week when the President was on a state visit to the United Kingdom. This is a very important...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government Information Service (15 Apr 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is out there and it is also online. People can read it. We did not say we published it but no one read it. It is clearly in the interests of patients in respect of private health insurance costs.