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Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is why the changes are being made to improve patient safety. We are a small country and a small State with a population less than half the city of London. Our philosophy is that we should have health services available to people at the lowest unit cost and as close to them as possible. This means that we cannot have everything at every crossroads. In this case, the changes are being...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has raised an issue that pertains to other countries as well as Ireland. There is a shortage of skills in many countries. With things moving so rapidly in the area of the Internet, robotics, nanotechnology, genetics and so on, the next decade will require a new range of skills sets and training for young people. I met Mr. Schmidt of Google last week when he was here. He pointed...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is a valid question. I will ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the answer as to why FÁS has not been in a position to produce its end of year report by June. Deputy Ross is right that it should be in a position to do so. The Minister for Education and Skills will come back with the reasons. The Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, met the chief...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 8, motion re presentation and circulation of Revised Estimates 2011; No. 4, Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011 - Second Stage (resumed); the Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad] - Order for Second Stage and Second and Remaining Stages, subject to completion in the Seanad, to be included on a supplementary Order Paper and to be taken at 3.45 p.m.; and No. 14. -...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I understand there was a briefing on this on Monday, and this will allow for Committee Stage to be taken appropriately. There will be ample opportunity to make amendments and debate those, as the Deputy always does.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Minister will bring forward proposals later this year to abolish the HSE board by amending the Health Act 2004. It will be necessary in that context to put alternative arrangements in place to ensure appropriate corporate governance of the HSE in the absence of that board.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: It will be later this year. The Minister will bring forward proposals to the Government later this year to abolish the HSE board by amending the 2004 Act.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is the board.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Sometimes the Deputy jumps to conclusions.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Minister will bring forward proposals later this year to abolish the HSE board by amending the Health Act 2004.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is the board.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Cahill report has not yet come to the Government and the Minister will bring forward a memo in due course. The report will be published and the Deputy will be well informed on the matter.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is entitled to ask for a debate on an issue at the Whips' meeting. All of the detail of the headline spoken of by the Deputy was raised and dealt with at Question Time with the Minister for Finance yesterday. As the Deputy is aware, this Government took over when certain obligations were signed by the previous Administration, and those figures are not new. If the Deputy wishes...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: There is a motion of censure down against the Minister for Justice and Equality and it is a matter for the party opposite. If it wishes to move it in private Members' time the party is free to do so. It is a bogus motion as all the issues have been dealt with by the Minister, Deputy Shatter, and the correspondence referred to has been laid before the Oireachtas Library. As I stated...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: All the correspondence is available and if the party wishes to pursue the motion of censure, it should do so in private Members' time.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy will have an opportunity to debate all the Estimates at the various committees in due course. It will take place in a much more transparent and accountable form than previously.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: We had a situation where 15 minutes applied for all-----

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not joking, actually.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: What you did when you had the authority was a disgrace.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: We are going to change all of that.