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Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Many of these are old buildings.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: St. Joseph's Hospital, for example, is a listed Georgian building over 150 years old and provides accommodation on two floors for 23 people, 19 of whom are in long-term residence, with four respite beds. Older people require an attachment to a locality and a building because it is their home while they are in residence. In 2012, is it right to continue to provide services in a listed...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Every time the Deputy comes in here, he wants to reverse the engines and deliver us into Cuba.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Time after time he comes in here and makes no constructive propositions.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: If one is going to downsize the public sector - the numbers leaving the health service speak for themselves - it is always difficult to change the structure to continue to provide a quality service. For the first time I detect within clinical teams, trade unions and front line staff evidence of full flexibility and co-operation from medical and nursing staff and people working in communities...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Under the fair deal scheme and nursing home programme, 42% of people in long stay institutions point out they were never offered a home care package. Another 40% do not know if they have been offered a home care package. Many people are consigned to long stay institutions when it would be much preferable to have them stay in their homes near their families until a time when that is no...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy can leave St. Joe's as it is or we can do something better for those people who deserve the best level of care and attention we can give them. That is what the Minister, Deputy Reilly, is about. The health teams, unlike the Deputy, are now focusing on new, innovative and more efficient ways of looking after those who need care and attention. That is what we should be about,...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: This is a matter between the company which won the tender and Dublin City Council. It is not a matter for the Government to award a tender in respect of waste collection. I understand the Minister, Deputy Hogan, will be in the House later today to deal with this matter in a Topical Issue debate and there will be an opportunity for further questions. This matter has arisen from a decision...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I may have misled the Deputy. It was yesterday that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government replied to the Topical Issue matter. Senator Ross made two important points. He claims the tender was flawed and that there was wrongdoing, mentioning the company involved. I suggest that if he has information of that nature he should notify the manager of the city council,...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy in the past has had information no one else had; he said Mr. FitzPatrick gave a stellar performance and that the Bank of Ireland never considered him for duty.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 5, Finance Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed), and Private Members' business shall be No. 39, motion re stroke costs in Ireland (resumed) to conclude after 90 minutes if not previously concluded.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I expect the partial loan credit guarantee scheme legislation to be introduced during this session. I said yesterday it would take two to two and a half months. A lot of work has been done on it to get the structure right. In respect of legislation to address county enterprise boards, I have written to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to get his responses on...

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The action plan has 270 proposals.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The first meeting about that takes place this morning.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked me a day and date for legislation and I will respond formally.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: We did not have great fanfare; we did not have the event at the cost of €100,000 in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, like Deputy Martin did in government.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: This was in a working environment in an Irish company that employs 8,500 people worldwide. The announcement was made with no great hype and it is a really solid action plan.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked about legislation and I will respond to the question through the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am intrigued by the Deputy's newfound interest in State assets; he certainly did a lot to help them over the years.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: On how many occasions was business disrupted in this country because there was another call about a bomb on the northern line or whatever? The Deputy had a real interest-----