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An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: I wish to share time with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan.

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: On 10 November the Irish people will have the opportunity to go to the polls and do something historic. They can vote for or against an amendment to the Constitution that proposes to treat children as individuals in their own right for the first time in the Republic of Ireland. It is 20 years since Ireland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the coming...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: When Deputy Martin asked me the question last week about the statutory instrument, I could not recall exactly the nature of the instrument or when it was laid before the Dáil and I promised to revert to him. He is aware that all statutory instruments refer to a legal base. There is no legal base to a primary care Act, so in terms of statutory instruments they refer specifically to...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Those responsible provide a wonderful opportunity and level of service for people.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: It has had the highly beneficial consequence of not having numbers turning up to accident and emergency centres who do not need to go there. More primary centres are needed and what has been announced by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is but part of the requirements that are needed in this regard. There will be more to follow because more are required.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: While I am unsure from what shelf in his archives the Deputy withdrew the poet's lines-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----perhaps before producing it here in the Chamber, he might have reflected on the fact that people on his side of the House stated "I didn't know the IMF was here; it is not here".

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin himself stated this was the cheapest bailout in history.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Moreover, he appeared on many television screens around the world on his travels stating that there was no need for a bailout and that it would be preposterous for Ireland. He should not come into this House and lecture Members with a poet's words. The fact of the matter is that to put together a proposal for primary care centres, be they where leases were involved, where direct Exchequer...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----one actually needs more than the number one sets out to put in place because one would not wish to be subservient to vested interests.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: One would not wish to be caught in a situation where, for instance, general practitioners would not buy into using the facility.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Consequently, the proposal is to have 20 primary care centres under the PPP system. However, if one states they are the only 20 the Government intends to put in place, anyone could refuse to buy into that and therefore, one does not get the results one seeks.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Minister has outlined to the House the reasons for expanding the criteria beyond deprivation only.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: They are also to provide for competition, to provide for dealing with potential vested interests-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----to deal with problems that arise with objections in certain locations and so on. I think Deputy Martin can agree that primary care centres are a fundamental part of the changing of the structure of the delivery of health services.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: I have seen them myself and they are operating exceptionally well. I hope the process that is under way to bring to a conclusion the provision of these 20 primary care centres, for which a great deal of development is needed before they become a reality, will result in the provision of those centres of excellence and in confidence for people in those locations.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: They will become a reality out of the 35 sites.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: Tá fáilte roimh an Teachta Adams thar n-ais mar ní raibh sé anseo an tseachtain seo chaite. In any event, as for the development of the plans for residential services for older people in County Louth, the HSE Louth-Meath primary services unit established a group to identify those options and to address existing pressures on the existing Cottage Hospital, of which Deputy...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----the existing staffing resources. That review will focus on a number of areas, including any home's ability to meet the changed HIQA standards for staffing and availability, clearly in some cases taking into account the structure, the age and the environment of a number of these homes throughout the country.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, advises me that funding is in place for the Cottage Hospital to become a step-down facility with more than 30 beds-----