Results 25,541-25,560 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I have a case here myself.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Let us have a conversation about it. If the Deputies want to decide to change the legislation to base it on medical needs as distinct from income and financial hardship that flows form that, well then we are entering a very different sphere here.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: What I am trying to do here is to ensure-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----that the people who need care, attention, facilities and aids for their particular illness get them-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----but of course there are differences of opinion and perception about the medical card, the long term illness card, the discretionary card-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the discretionary card given in exceptional circumstances-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the emergency card given and people who have particular difficulties.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I said here that in a case involving the HSE, I do not believe it should ask somebody six months further on have they still got motor neurone disease.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is not what we want.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes, I understand, and that is why we have intervened here to put a stop to that.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Just like other cases where centralised digital recording took place, these cases come to light all the time and each time they do we try to deal with them with a sense of compassion. The Minister, Deputy Reilly, is going to meet with the nurses from the Jack & Jill Children's Foundation to go through these cases so that the State can say of course we understand that people-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----have particular difficulties, some of them for life. I have a case here of a person who has motor neurone disease, who is suctioned ten times a day but is very much over the limit in terms of eligibility. What are we to do? Are we to say that everybody gets a card here?
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: That person needs 24-hour care and cannot speak, walk or do anything. In our nation's history-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----we would never want to see a situation where they are left without attention or without medical care. The Deputy refuses to focus on the fundamental issue that we are trying to deal with here.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: The law has been there for many years. That is why probably back in 2002-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----Deputy Martin disgraced himself with another promise that he could not keep.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am giving the Deputies the figures for discretionary cards from 2011 to 2014-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and we will continue to show compassion and understanding where that is possible in all these circumstances.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams talks about changing tunes here. There are a few issues on which he could change tune himself, but I will not go into that now. When he speaks about the housing problem and puts forward Deputy Ellis's view that we should take €1 billion from the National Pensions Reserve Fund and start building houses, even Deputy Adams with all his magic could not conjure up houses in...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I refer to pyrite, greed corruption, planning scandals and credit as if it could be thrown about forever.