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- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (24 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The use of Plain English by Government Departments and Offices is an important part of the Government’s Public Service Reform agenda. The Public Service Reform Plan 2014-2016, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in January 2014, contains an action to “Continue to centrally promote the benefits of the use of plain language including through guidelines,...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Security Checks (24 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: No such report has been received by my Department.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I will accept that this is a very challenging situation. I accept there have been difficulties for many years now with delayed discharges and the lack of beds, in some cases, to accommodate people who need this kind of attention. I would point out to the Deputy that, as the Minister said this morning, there is not anything new in the information provided in the letter by Dr. O'Connell, who...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy comes in here, week after week, purporting to have all the answers.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: He stands up here, as the leader of his party, a party with no health policy at all-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----that was presented at some press conference in the past that did not even have the support of his own political party. It is the same old story from Deputy Martin every day: "I have all the answers but, actually, we have no policy in regard to health at all." The mythical-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The mythical Fianna Fáil policy will deal with all of these answers some time in the future.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: When Deputy Martin says-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asks a question and then he cannot shut up and has to keep talking. The Deputy made the point there is no sense of urgency here. Last December the Minister for Health convened an emergency task force to deal with unacceptable delays in people getting into the system and being discharged. An extra €25 million was made available for that. In addition, a range of other...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----for a three-month period and arrangements are in place with the HSE to recruit front-line staff where it has been established that there is an urgent need for them. The day and night shift nursing complements have increased in Beaumont. There has been agreement on 70 nursing posts for the University of Limerick hospital group.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: There have been 22 agency nursing conversions, 66 nursing posts and additional health care posts for Drogheda, and 39 posts for Naas. In addition, beds are due to open in Mount Carmel. There are plans for rehabilitation beds to open in Louth County Hospital later this month-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and up to 300 overflow beds have been opened.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Community intervention teams have been introduced in Naas and Drogheda. It is not true to say-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has a plan.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: He is working this effectively. He has the full support of the Government, unlike the Fianna Fáil Party which goes back to its way of doing business, namely, a nod and a wink, no plan, no proposal and no case.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I said in response to the leader of the party with no health policy that this is a matter of challenge for the Government. The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, has the full support of the Government in making arrangements to deal with this. That is why he set up the emergency task force to deal with delayed discharges.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is why €25 million was made available which reduced the time people had been waiting for the fair deal and allowed for the beds I mentioned to be opened on both a transitional and an emergency basis. Of course it is realistic to say there are serious challenges facing the health system. The profession and system, while still challenged, is working better than it was when...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: On 17 February, there were 755 delayed discharges nationally, of which 370 were in the Dublin academic teaching hospitals.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Some 555 of those delayed discharges were destined for long-term residential care. The point made by the eminent doctor is of course true. It is not an acceptable situation to have so many elderly people in these situations, and nobody wants to see that. That is why the review of the fair deal will allow for the Minister to present a report to Government on dealing with the challenges and...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is part of implementing the health service plan presented by the HSE which has been accepted by Government.