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Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Nobody wants to be put in a position of determining between life and death. This will continue to be an issue because new drugs are being tested, assessed, analysed and created as time passes. A number of new drugs come on stream every year. Deputy Micheál Martin has referred to pembrolizumab and nivolizumab. The new Minister in the Department of Health, Deputy Simon Harris, has...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Of course, the country has invested heavily in innovation and research. A certain number of new and very expensive treatments will be brought forward in the next five or ten years as a result of the work of the many research students working in pharmaceutical companies. We do not know the extent of the cost of these drugs when they are eventually tested and will come on the market. Some of...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Minister will look at how effectively much of the €14 billion fund is being spent in areas of the HSE. I am quite sure a significant amount can be saved. We can all understand it would be nice to have a specific fund for exceptionally expensive drugs used to treat a smaller number of patients who really need them because of their particular ailments. I would like to think we can...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Minister has made a full statement already and there has been quite a deal of discussion at the various Oireachtas committees on the question on NAMA. NAMA personnel at the highest level have responded and given much time on different occasions to discuss these matters. If two people have been arrested, they have been arrested on suspicion of particular charges and I expect that the...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: No, I will not. There has not been any allegation of wrongdoing against NAMA.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy informs me that two people have been arrested. I assume they have been arrested for good reason. Representatives of NAMA have appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts and have given very lengthy statements. They have been crystal clear and that from their perspective, there is no allegation of wrongdoing against NAMA. NAMA has done nothing wrong. It has been completely...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Representatives of NAMA have appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts and have given their statements and answered questions at length on all of these issues, and more than once.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Ministers responsible are Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise, Deputy Pat Breen, and the Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: That is all referred to in the Private Members' motion, which is due this evening.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes. Government has an amendment-----

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----to that motion dealing with the question of the University of Limerick study, which will obviously have to be implemented.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Howlin asked me to answer the question. He asked me what Minister was responsible and I said the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, and the Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Government has not considered the outcome of the study of the University of Limerick but it will consider that-----

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----and make its views known. If there is an opportunity for a debate in the House, we will have that. Minister Howlin, or Deputy Howlin - gabh mo leithscéal - is well aware of the foundation he partly put in place himself. Ireland has moved up nine places to the seventh most competitive economy. The Deputy beside Deputy Howlin, the former Minister for Social Protection, would be...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Sectors of the economy, such as catering and security, which the Deputy mentioned, are vulnerable and the Government will reflect on how best to deal with those vulnerabilities in the interest of continued employment in those sectors while taking into account the vulnerability that obviously exists there.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 5, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 5a, motion re membership of Committee of Selection on the Supplementary Order Paper; and No. 7, statements on mental health services (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Nos. 5 and 5a shall be decided without debate; Private Members’ business shall be No....

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: At Cabinet this morning we restored 13 Bills to the Dáil clár which had fallen when the Dáil was dissolved. These include the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016, the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, the National Shared Services Office Bill 2016, the Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016, the Minerals Development Bill 2015, the Criminal...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: They are restored to the Order Paper. I expect the legislative programme will come before Cabinet next week, once Minister and Secretaries General have settled on what it is they want to be able to put through during the forthcoming period. We have had this practice of A lists, B lists and C lists for as long as I can remember. On every occasion the Dáil has come back, Ministers...