Results 27,721-27,740 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: In the Estimates €25 million was allocated for 2015, of which €3 million is being brought forward to deal with patients being discharged. Funding has just been approved for 1,000 nursing home support - fair deal - scheme places; 700 routine approvals have been accelerated, while there have been 300 additional approvals in anticipation of €10 million in funding becoming...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: A number of initiatives have been taken to mitigate the situation in Beaumont hospital.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Work is being done with the teams at the front door, where access is gained, and the clinical programmes to improve decision making and pathways to care. Work is also being done with the clinical teams and the director to improve throughput and the flow at the hospital. The emerging hospital groups are examining the available capacity to free up space to facilitate the emergency department....
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I can. I was happy to attend the discussions that took place in Belfast on Thursday and Friday. It was the tenth week of discussions that had begun some time ago. The discussions, led on this side by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and his colleagues, were productive and constructive and were added to by the discussions that took place both in plenary session and with the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: As usual, the Deputy is very economical with the truth. The fact is that the Deputy, as the leader of his party, has put his foot down and said there will not be welfare reform in Northern Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is welfare reform.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Social security arrangements are a devolved power. The Deputy's party sought that and got it.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Nonetheless, the costs are borne by the Treasury in London and are separate from the other funding stream of the block grant.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Northern Ireland has no power to act autonomously here. If there is a shortfall, it comes out of the block grant.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: That will be £13 million between January and March of this year, £87 million next year and £114 million between 2015 and 2016. There was a separate legislative measure dealing with the introduction of welfare reform in Northern Ireland. It got as far as the Second Reading and Committee Stage, but it has not progressed beyond that since 2013.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy put a stop to that. He asked for devolved responsibility, but he will not accept it.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: He is afraid to make decisions about welfare reform.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked why we signed up to this. The paper presented, in which I had a central part to play from the Irish Government's point of view, included a direct and specific passage about the Irish language, Scots Gaelic and so forth.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: We made that point very clearly. There is significant movement in respect of the historical investigative unit-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----which will allow for the chairperson, when appointed by both governments, to receive even the most sensitive documentation from the British Government and from its agencies. That includes issues such as Ballymurphy and would include, in my view, other elements of what might not have been produced in the de Silva report in respect of Pat Finucane.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: We could still be in Northern Ireland going around in circles and not making a decision. The fundamental issue is that the Executive and the Assembly sought responsibility for devolved authority and got it in respect of welfare reform-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----pensions and child support, but the Deputy is afraid to face the music and make a choice on welfare reform.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: He is putting off the long day. The Irish Government will continue to support Northern Ireland, as it has done. That will amount to approximately €0.5 billion over the next number of years. The British Prime Minister, in the discussions he conducted with both the First Minister and deputy First Minister, because this is a matter of devolved responsibility, said he was giving them...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: However, Deputy Adams said this was ham-fisted and amateurish and that they were the worst discussions he was involved with in all his years.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: If we put together a political paper upon which agreement can be reached, if Deputy Adams has the courage to face it, and if both governments are in Belfast for the purpose of signing off on an agreement which will give extra spending power to the Executive and Assembly in Northern Ireland, that is neither amateurish nor ham-fisted. The Deputy should have the courage to face up to his...