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- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The ambulance was immediately dispatched to the incident and arrived at the scene at 2.15 p.m. The wheels dislodged at 2.10 p.m. Now, if the Deputy has different information, then we need to determine that as well.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Mac Lochlainn for that information. This is a matter of serious concern. Let me confirm from my information here that the independent report has been acted upon and that all Mercedes ambulances in the fleet comply with the maintenance and service records fully.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Fitzmaurice raises a number of issues. He will be aware of the constraints placed on the Government in recent years in respect of the availability of money and the capacity to spend. That is the reason the public private partnership concept was brought into being and is, for example, delivering the extension of the motorway from Gort to Tuam at a cost of nearly €600 million....
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am talking about not discriminating in respect of the quality of life of elderly people living in institutions and homes which have to be repaired. The budget is on its way and the detail regarding Deputy Fitzmaurice's request about homes that will receive direct funding will be made known at that stage. That addresses the point the Deputy raises about public private partnerships and...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: While there is certainly nothing wrong with the Deputy's comment, the annual budget is the outcome of the decisions made by the Cabinet in respect of providing services and running individual Departments for which Ministers have responsibility. As the Deputy is aware, the Health Service Executive submits its service plan to the Minister for Health who must sign off on it before it can be...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: No I do not, actually.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: What I see is, for the first time, a Minister for Health saying we have to have accountability for taxpayers’ money and the services we run, I am not happy with the way things are being run, I need people to step up to the mark and take responsibility, unlike what happened in Deputy Martin’s time-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----when he denied publicly that he had ever been given any responsibility. The Minister is quite entitled to say he is not happy with the situation he finds in some services that we run and he needs people to be able to accept responsibility for the charges they have been given. It has been a trying time. There was a modest increase in the health budget last year despite the fact that...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is the champion of false anger.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: If I recall correctly the Minister for Health back in 2002 was one Deputy Micheál Martin.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: He proclaimed to the nation and internationally that he would end and abolish waiting lists. He had a plan to do it. He still has a plan to do it.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: He comes in here floundering around in desperation. His party, with a few notable exceptions, has not come up with a constructive suggestion in the past four and a half years. He started his period in opposition-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----saying he would work in the interests of the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----but what he has been at here, week after week and month after month-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----is typical of somebody who has no vision of where his party should be or where his country should be.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: What he has given out there in that diatribe does not warrant a response.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas le clann Alan Ó Murchú, go ndéanfaidh Dia trócaire ar a anam. The Deputy's party has tabled a motion on housing for debate this evening when this matter can be dealt with in greater detail in the response by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. Clearly, one cannot beat this problem until one supplies more houses and...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: That means we must continue the programme of social housing and returning so-called voids to habitable use - of which it is expected there will be 2,500 this year - and that the housing construction sector begins to move. As Deputy McDonald is aware, there are numbers of components to this. There is the social housing element, the renovation of units or apartments that are void at present...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: It has already been allocated to local authorities. In fact, the Minister and the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government are meeting with the chief executives of all of the local authorities tomorrow to hear their responses in terms of the targets that have been set, the objectives laid out, the money awarded to them and how they are getting on...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has issued an order in respect of the allocation of social housing to ensure that 50% of all allocations go to homeless people. I also do not hear interviews with anybody who has been awarded a voided apartment or house that has been renovated and made fit for living in again. There will be 765 of those in Dublin by the end of...