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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: On the Deputy's final question, we cannot answer all the questions that are being asked until the British Government issues its letter of intent to leave the European Union. As soon as the letter has been written, sent to the Commission and enters the public domain, the Government will respond. We have done analysis on the 14 sectoral areas and a briefing on these is available to the Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Cabinet committee last met on 26 January 2017 and the next meeting is scheduled for 8 March 2017.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Let us not get our colours mixed up. A Green Paper is a statement of aspiration. A White Paper is a statement of intent, that is, how it is intended to implement what is set out in the Green Paper. I cannot draft a White Paper without knowing what it is that I am expected to do. I cannot know that until I have clarity on what the British Government is looking for in respect of its...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: We discussed this in Bratislava and Valletta and I discussed it with Mr. Juncker the other day. As of now, the European agenda is very clear: this Single Market, the digital single market, the capital markets and implementation over the next number of years of the report of the Presidents. That is the European agenda. In the meantime, Brexit has arisen. Article 50 has not been triggered...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Howlin raised an important point of the divorce proceedings that have to take place in the context of Brexit and what Britain wants. The Prime Minister has said, and I agree, that the retention of as close as possible a trading relationship as currently exists is in our best interests. Deputy Howlin spoke about Ireland continuing as a member of the European Union, which it will do....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: If a state is a full member of the customs union, it is not in a position to do bespoke trade deals with other countries, which is what the Prime Minister has said she would like Britain to be able to do. Associate members of the customs union also have a difficulty in that Europe has made it perfectly clear there will not be any cherry-picking of criteria for inclusion. The British...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 to 10, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on health last met on 2 February. It will meet again on 21 March.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is Deputy Boyd Barrett who is playing politics here.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: He has chosen to raise individual cases, as is his right, in the Dáil.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is fully entitled to talk directly to the Minister for Health about any of these serious cases, some of which were raised in an RTE programme some weeks ago. I cannot give the Deputy details regarding Sarah-Ann Mitchell's case, but I will have the Minister respond to him. Reduction of waiting times for scoliosis patients is a major priority for the Minister and he recently met...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: In regard to the medicinal cannabis application, as I pointed out earlier, the Minister does not need legislation to approve an application provided there is a prescription request from a paediatric neurosurgeon.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett indicated that more than one neurosurgeon has stated in writing that the product in question is alleviating the child's condition. I do not have that clinical evidence here. The Minister confirmed this morning in answer to questions on legislation that, within the existing legal structure, he still requires a prescription to be directed by a paediatric neurosurgeon.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: I am not speaking for whomever the Deputy is speaking for. I heard the Minister clarify this very clearly this morning. He further indicated his intention to introduce a compassionate structure for prescribing of medicinal cannabis but that this would still require its authorisation being approved by a paediatric neurosurgeon. These are issues that are outside the range of politicians, as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: The same applies in respect of any other application, but the doctor is not the person who approves it in this instance. It is required to be approved by a paediatric neurosurgeon. The Deputy may speak to the Minister directly about this, but he clarified it here this morning.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Well actually this is getting to the stage of utter ridiculousness, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I do not answer here for all of the details of the Ministry of health. In fact, I am always advised that I am not even supposed to mention what is being discussed at Cabinet sub-committees because they are sub-committees of the Cabinet and one does not discuss Cabinet business in an open forum, but...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: This is not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: Field hospitals do not appear and are not provided within hospital structures. "Prefabs" goes back to the question-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----that Deputy Ó Caoláin asked yesterday about the sort of prefab concept as something that one could put a finger through after five years 20 years ago when people built prefab dwellings or prefab school rooms.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: They are all gone. The last Government eliminated all of the prefabricated school buildings. What is being provided in south Tipperary and in Mayo general is not that kind of prefab. It is a place where people will be able to go and have attention given to them - medical attention that they need - in very comfortable surroundings and they will not have to stay overnight on any trolley.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Enda Kenny: I might just say that, in respect of the children's hospital-----