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Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: From that point of view, there is a central planning unit in the Department of Public and Expenditure and Reform, there are local sectoral planning units and each Department is monitoring the situation in so far as they are all concerned. For example, the Minister for Health has asked the HSE to draw up a risk assessment in regard to the staffing situation, which will identify particular...

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: There is no need for Deputy Martin to become hysterical just because he is under pressure from those on his right hand side.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I believe the Deputy for once when he says he has no interest in monitoring. He never had.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is the one, above everyone who ever came into this House, who produced all the plans, more than 130 consultants reports, but never acted on them. He had no interest.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The numbers became known yesterday.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Less than 24 hours ago the final numbers were confirmed.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy wants a detailed plan this morning, covering every office and service in the country.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has a central unit which is looking at the sectoral impact of the decisions-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----made by people in recent weeks. I remind Deputy Martin that between 3,000 and 5,000 people leave the public service every year without there being the crisis he or Mr. Burke mentions. As I stated last week, it is outrageous for a senior medical professional, at a time when people are making decisions about their lives, and whether to leave the public service-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: ------to claim that the safety of pregnant women and babies is being put on the line. It ill becomes a senior medical professional to say that.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy can take it the Government is as serious as everybody else is about maintaining the high standards and the quality of front line public services that our public servants have always given, in particular, in the sensitive areas of health, education, justice or wherever. All these areas are being monitored by individual Ministers in their Departments-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and being relayed directly to the central unit in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: This is a scheme whereby people are entitled to make the choice to leave the public service.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Even though the numbers are of this order there will not be the scale of crisis and catastrophe the Deputy seems to want to happen.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: Yesterday I forgot to remind the Deputy's leader, when he was talking about the buddy situation, that he gave me some kind of bear hug during the course of the leaders' debates before the last election. Occasionally he seems to have a selective amnesia.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I want the Deputy to understand that I do not deal with-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----Grizzly Adams.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: I want her to understand we do not deal with anonymous people or anonymous reports. The reporter for The Irish Times is a very good reporter and a responsible person. I have no idea in the world as to the official he refers to, or the quoted comments. If that is the case and that speculative report were to be true does that not belie everything the Deputy has been saying for a very long...

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy cannot have it both ways. We have been very clear about this. This is a political agreement, now signed off by 25 countries. The process in this democracy, where we do not deal with anonymous people, is to ask the Attorney General whether the agreement is in conformity with our Constitution, Bunreacht na h-Éireann. As the Deputy knows, I referred that matter yesterday from the...

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----about the quoted remarks but I can tell the Deputy that the officials from this country, from the Departments of Foreign Affairs, of the Taoiseach and others engaged intensively with officials of all the other countries in the drafting of the text that was presented finally on Monday to the Heads of Government and was signed off, with one or two minor amendments. That is the truth of...