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- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: Decisions about acceptance of patients by these hospitals will be made based on clinical assessment and age requirement and following review by paediatric young adult orthopaedic surgeons in these hospitals. Our Lady's Hospital in Crumlin has commenced contacting families on their surgical waiting list whose children fit these clinical and age criteria, to ask their permission to share the...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----to the parents and the children who are involved here. I am sure that Deputy McDonald welcomes that in the interests of those children and the treatments being had this year.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Education and Skills has set out as his priority the delivery of the best education in Europe inside ten years. A key part of that is becoming the best at supporting children with special educational needs. The Government is committed to ensuring that all children with special educational needs, including those with autism, are given the best opportunity to fulfil their...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The outline the Deputy has given is not in accordance with what one would expect from the very best standards here. The number of special classes have doubled from 548 in 2011 to 1,153 across the country now, of which 889 are special autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, classes. The number of special classes at post-primary level has doubled in the past three years and continues to rise...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: As I said, we are spending €1.6 billion at the moment and the number of classes has doubled to almost 900.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should be clear on this point. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, has set out the figures. The number of resource teachers has gone up by 41% from 5,200 to 7,500. Since 2011, the number of special needs assistants has increased by over 22% from 10,500 to 13,115. Since the previous Fine Gael-led Government took office in 2011, and despite an adverse economic...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: I am quite sure the Deputy welcomes the improvement in the numbers of people working in the country.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: Unemployment has fallen from 15.2% to 6.6% with over 2 million plus people now working in Ireland, spread throughout the regions in every sector. I was recently accused in Cork of being responsible for clogging up the roads with people going to work which is, I suppose, a challenge of success. I was interested in this initially because this was borne out of an initiative that came from the...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has had her say. There are three issues here. One is the legal issue, which I cannot comment on. That is in respect of the financial situation. The second is the number of jobs that were, and are, created by the ambassadors and by the connectors of ConnectIreland. The third relates to the current position. This was a four-year scheme. It was extended, after contact was made...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: There is a discrepancy between the numbers concerned here.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The challenge is that the IDA is the statutory body, which does a superb job in attracting jobs into Ireland-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----but if somebody in another country wants to invest in Europe and an indication is given to them to consider Ireland, it is through the IDA, or the agency dealing with investment into the country, with which that contact is made. If it is only for five or ten jobs however, then they are more important in Kinvara or Ballyvary than they might be in central Dublin.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: Jobs are jobs however, and when we had none we were very lucky to get any kind of jobs in here. Deputy Howlin knows this because he was a member of the Government that approved it.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: I cannot comment on the court case but look forward to seeing the Minister's review. That is difficult given that there is litigation at the moment. The intention was to have smaller numbers dispersed throughout the country. That was the original intention, which worked very well initially.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: I am disappointed that this dispute has arisen.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: Of course I know the Deputy supports jobs. I just thought it conveniently absent from her contribution that she never mentioned the fact that we have more than 2 million people working in the country now.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: That is the point I am making. Perhaps the Deputy genuinely forgot about it.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: I will allow her that. The board of the IDA considered this ConnectIreland scheme last November 2016. I am a big supporter of ConnectIreland. One of the reasons it was extended for a further 12 months was to allow for this very matter to be dealt with. I am disappointed that it has not been dealt with. I want to assure Deputy Murphy, that if the contract were to be extended, we would be...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: I am not suggesting that the Minister and the Department in their review of this will agree that there should not be some continuation of a scheme like ConnectIreland. It has brought a verifiable number of jobs to dispersed regions of the country, jobs that are very valuable in those regions. I was always a strong supporter of this, with the ambassadors, but it seems to have run into...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: I think it is in order, and right and proper, to consider all of the issues to be taken into account by the Minister's review.