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- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----allocated by the Minister for Health to this particular situation this year.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is better than it was in August and it is better than it was in January, and if Deputy Adams has anything constructive to say-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----he might point out the good things that are happening in here while we intend to address the challenges that remain.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do hope that the INMO - its general secretary chairs the task force, which is now paying dividends - can sit down, approach this rationally and avoid a strike of nurses coming up to Christmas, especially given that they are so important to our system. I hope that can be concluded successfully.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Fitzmaurice knows full well that I cannot comment on any individual cases that are raised here. Obviously, he is raising the case in question as an example of an individual who is naturally very upset because an operation that was to take place has been cancelled. I do not know the reasons for it. The surgeon may have been indisposed, or there may not have been sufficient nursing...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: As I said to Deputy Fitzmaurice, he fled from the Department of Health and Children as soon as he got a chance. The Government has made substantially more money available for next year than for 2015. There are greater facilities, additional nurses, additional consultants and additional personnel. In the sense of management, everybody clearly has an opportunity to assist in meeting this...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Fitzmaurice rightly says action speaks louder than words. It is true. There are now 700 more professional nurses working in the public system than just a year ago. When one comments on the work of any nurse, one should think of the output and productivity of 700 nurses in addition to those who were working in the system last year. There are 35,163 whole-time equivalent nurses, by...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Operations are cancelled for a very particular reasons.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The cancellation rate is approximately 1%. There has to be a reason for that. I am quite sure the person who was to carry out the operation will be able to explain that to the good lady involved. The cancellation rate is approximately 1% of operations carried out.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I make every effort to give a full and comprehensive reply to Deputies for each parliamentary question tabled to me. Each answer is checked for accuracy by officials in my Department before the draft reply is forwarded to me for finalisation. When answering supplementary questions during Question Time in the House, if the information requested by a Deputy is not readily available, I...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I should do an analysis of Deputy Martin's record as a person who produced reports and never did anything about them. When the last two interim reports came in here - both the Fennelly report and the Cregan report - I released them immediately after receiving authorisation from the sole member and a report from the Attorney General that they were not in conflict with any existing court case....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: This would allow Deputy Martin to raise any question he wished. He would not be facing a situation in which hundreds of questions are tabled, some of which are taken in bulk because they are grouped, while others do not get answered for a long time. Maybe Deputy Martin wants me to be in here all the time answering questions. I take it he is not complaining that the reports of Mr. Justice...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: In good time, Deputy Martin, myself and others will have an opportunity to debate the issues of the day.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin now puts himself in the position in which he is the individual who has to be debated with every time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: As far as I am concerned, I have no difficulty at all in debating the issues of the day publicly - none whatever.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We do it in here every day.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin does not call me up beforehand and say he is going to ask me this or that question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Be careful what you wish for.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Be careful what you wish for.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have answered questions about that on the Order of Business about 40 times already.