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- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: In accordance with normal Government procedure, what happened in this country for many years is that Governments of the party Deputy Martin now leads made decisions and threw money to the wind without bothering to consider the effects, the effectiveness or the consequences for the economy. That is why this Government is facing up to the challenge of dealing with an unprecedented economic...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: He has travelled twice to the Holy See since his appointment. He will represent the State at the consistory of cardinals next Saturday. He attended the ordination of the incoming nuncio, Archbishop Charles J. Brown, who I will be happy to welcome to Ireland. Mr. Cooney is in contact as needs be with the Vatican authorities. In case Deputy Martin did not hear it, I read his article in the...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: I have made it perfectly clear-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: As a practising Catholic, although maybe not to the highest degree, I have made it clear that the Eucharistic Congress this year in Dublin will be very different to the 1932 event.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: If the Government receives an indication of the intentions of the Pope, who was invited here by the bishops, to travel to Dublin for the congress or any such event, the Government will receive the Pope with the proper decorum in respect of his position and status. In respect of the review to which Deputy Martin refers, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Government...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: The budget for health this year is â¬13.5 billion and a further â¬330 million will be spent on the capital programme, which excludes the development of the National Children's Hospital. This is the one area where the Government has made sure adequate moneys are pumped into the system. What is wrong is the way the expenditure has been spent, the effectiveness with which it is spent and the...
- 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,...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (14 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: A copy of my Department's organisation chart is as follows. It is also available on my Department's website - www.taoiseach.gov.ie.
- Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (14 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: No agencies, authorities, boards, committees, working groups, tribunals, council services, task forces or other quangos were established or abolished by me since February 2011.
- Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (14 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: Details of the appointments I have made since coming into office on 9 March, 2011 are set out in the table. No remuneration is paid to persons in relation to the appointments listed. Appointments made by the Taoiseach since 9 March, 2011 Name Organisation Appointment made to the Date ofAppointment Prof. Edgar Morgenroth Associate Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (14 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: No such payments are being made or are scheduled to be paid.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (14 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: In the time allowed it is not possible to provide a detailed response to the Deputy. The information will be provided to you as soon as possible.
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is working on that and we have not yet set a date for publication. It is a far-ranging and important Bill.
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Bill have not come before the Government yet so I do not have a date for its publication. Once the heads of the Bill have come to Government and been circulated, I will be in a better position to give the Deputy a true indication of the time.