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- Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: The Cloyne report will be published tomorrow. Announcements about the extension of the Murphy commission or any related matter will follow.
- Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: I do not have a date for the legislation but the point made by the Deputy is valid. When the Bill is published the issue of concern to the Deputy will be central to it. We cannot have the lives of young people threatened and imposed on by this most reprehensible carry-on.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: Unlike Deputy Martin, this Government will face tough questions and make tough decisions. Deputy Martin was the collator of over 100 reports which cost millions of euro and which were never acted upon, be that as it may.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: The statement Deputy Martin refers to in respect of The Sunday Business Post was a public address on the street in Roscommon-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: -----and an interview afterwards in which I as leader of the Fine Gael Party enunciated what Fine Gael policy was at that time.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: Part of the duty and the responsibility of any leader of any party is to enunciate party policy. The party policy in respect of Roscommon hospital was published in the local papers and publicly known before I arrived in Roscommon. The first mention of the situation being unsafe in Roscommon hospital arose in the Mallow report, which as the Deputy is aware was published after the general...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: -----as I did in other locations about other issues around the country.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: Unlike Deputy Martin, prior to the 2002 election when he said he would end waiting lists for once and for all and when he was asked if he would accept responsibility for that he laughed into the microphone.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is slightly confused. The enunciation of party policy is made by any leader of any party, including the Deputy.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: As he is aware, party policy is put together by the Front Bench, the members of the party and the different organs within the party-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: -----and from that point of view I enunciated what party policy was on a range of issues during the course of the general election. The issue of a personal commitment is something above and beyond what party policy might be and from that point of view, to say that one has gone around the country giving personal commitments outside of what party policy was is a nonsense. This situation is not...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: I cannot stand over a position where the independent health regulator says that the situation in the Roscommon hospital accident and emergency department was unsafe.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: The Mallow report made it very clear that 24-7 emergency department services should only be maintained in hospitals that had a full range of clinical resuscitation and diagnostic services on site-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: -----with full-time clinical decision makers on site and where that did not apply, the appropriate arrangements to discontinue the emergency services should apply. In that case the Minister for Health, HIQA, the Health Service Executive and local representatives met in Roscommon to discuss that, and the position was made clear. When I travelled to Athlone for another purpose I made it clear...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: -----and that the situation that applied in Roscommon hospital-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: -----emergency department would not continue in the fashion it did previously.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: The position I enunciated when I visited Roscommon was strictly in accordance with Fine Gael policies at that time-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: -----which was public knowledge.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: It was referred to on the local radio station and was given in good faith based on the information and the knowledge we had.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)
Enda Kenny: The situation, as the Deputy is aware, following the Ennis report was that a review-----