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- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Dolphin report-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: When Deputies keep interrupting, they sometimes prevent the truth from being heard. The Dolphin group combined planning, managerial and clinical expertise in the preparation of its report.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Deputies can read the report when it is published.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: When the report is published, the Deputies will see it was right and proper for the Department of Health and the Minister to ask questions about aspects of the Dolphin report. As Mr. Fitzgerald said, that was done in an informal way. Deputy Micheál Martin should not run away with the illusion that the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, any other Minister or the Government as a...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: There is only one process. It will be a lot more open than what went on before.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I have no interest in the games, the speculation, the rumours or the allegations being made. There is only one process.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Mr. Dolphin commissioned his report. He presented his report.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Health and his Department are entitled to assess that report and seek advice on and raise questions about aspects of it.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister will bring his recommendation to the Government which will make its decision about the national children's hospital.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The right site and the right location will be chosen in the best interests of all the children of the country.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: We have messed around for 30 years on this issue. We are going to do it - build it, finish it and leave it behind us.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am bringing clarity to the matter.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Aontaím leis an ráiteas atá déanta ag an Teachta faoi na hargóintí a bhíonn ar siúl anseo. This is an important capital project. Even in these straitened economic times, the Government has put together a funding model which will see up to €500 million being released for the building of a national paediatric hospital. We hope it will stand the...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I can confirm to the Deputy that the number of children on waiting lists has been reduced by 800, even with the exceptional numbers who have left the health service through voluntary redundancy, retirement and so on. There is no alternative report. Everybody who will be party to making the decision, following the recommendation of the Minister, is entitled to understand the implications,...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: In the meantime, clearly, the HSE and the Department of Health are conscious of the priority that has to be attached to the treatment of children and, indeed, every other patient. While times are tough and challenging economically, that is a matter the Minister and his two Ministers of State want to treat with sensitivity. Again, Dolphin will be published as soon as the Government makes...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: As I said, this is a major flagship project for the country. I expect Government to make its decision and announcement in the next two weeks to clear this up.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Education and Skills, given the constraints on the budget and the budgetary preparation he has to go through, brought in a new system where teachers starting the profession are at a lower salary or wage than those who had been in the system before. I listened to the secretary of one of the unions this morning say that the protest today was not about wages but about the...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----and the anxieties and concerns about the education process. A discretionary allocation for supervision is now available to new teachers which was not available in February of this year because allowances were all suspended. That leaves teachers starting off in the profession on a salary of €32,000 per year. This is part of a very difficult situation for the country. Protests,...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett should bear in mind that one of his group up there at the back is actually taking a case in the European Court to prevent the mechanism for funding this country from being put in place. It will be an interesting decision which the court makes and I understand all 27 judges are there.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: As I said, the starting salary is €32,294 for teachers, which is a starting salary of €30,702 with an optional pensionable allowance of €1,592. I am advised by the Minister for Education and Skills that there are nine applicants for every teacher place. At least the decision gives clarity to new teachers and is an improvement on the pay situation of teachers who began...