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Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: At the end of September this year-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----there were 22,380 persons in receipt of financial support from the State, including subvention and contract beds. A further 426 persons had been allocated funding but had not yet taken up a bed. Some 2,135 persons were on the national placement list awaiting funding.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Some 1,450 of those were in progress. Some of those applications come in---------

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----without the necessary supporting documentation. To date this year, 4,324 new clients were funded under the scheme in public and private nursing home. The average approval rate for 2014-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----is 515 persons per month and for the ten months to October 2014, the average approval rate was 463 per month.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: On the profile for November-December this year, an average of 783 per month will be released in November and December.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is a challenge, but it is a challenge that the Minister accepts and that the Government will deal with.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: We all understand the importance of persons-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----particularly elderly persons-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----being able to be comfortable in their own home-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----in the community and under this scheme.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: We are very conscious of it. The figures I have given Deputy Martin are accurate figures for up to the end of November-December.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Of course, the demographics are changing and we are making arrangements to deal with those changes.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: The figures I have given the Deputy of a 783 average per month for November and December speak for themselves. It is very much a different situation than that when Deputy Martin had charge of it.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: This is the first opportunity for anybody to bring forward such documentation under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. It is because of the reform introduced by the Government that such should be so. As I stated yesterday in answer to questions, this is a case of where the whistleblower involved here must be protected. Indeed, it is very different from the treatment given to...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: In any event, I understand that Deputy McDonald is still a member of the Committee of Public Accounts and she stands up here and prejudges the outcome of the witness statement and the documentation provided by the person involved here. Deputy McDonald will be aware that this dates back a long time. On the allegations being made by the whistleblower under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014,...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: No, I do not believe the Minister, Deputy Bruton, was part of a pattern of political obstruction. The evidence, clearly, is that the Minister requested that the work would proceed on the completion of the witness statement in respect of the matters in hand. The Minister made his own statement on the matter. The witness statement has been cleared and sent to the entity that requested it-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----namely, the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation. Deputy McDonald has asked me questions. She said she does not want to prejudge the matter herself but she is asking me to prejudge it.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy McDonald has asked me in the House if I believe the whistleblower's statements and allegations. She asked me to prejudge the outcome. Deputy McDonald's point is whether I believe the whistleblower.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)

Enda Kenny: Let me confirm to her that when I spoke to the Minister, Deputy Bruton, he briefed me on the reasons for the delay in the sending of the witness statement to the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation. As I am not a member of the Committee of Public Accounts I have not read the detailed dossier, nor have I been briefed on its contents. Deputy McDonald is aware that the fraud squad...