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Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: These things are all interlinked. At issue is the potential to have a reduction in the interest rate across all the loans.

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is under a serious delusion if he thinks the hard questions will not be or are not being asked. As the Deputy is aware, the European Union portion of the EU-IMF programme funding for Ireland is made up of the European financial stabilisation mechanism, EFSM, the European financial stability facility, EFSF, and the bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark....

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 8, inclusive, together. I reported to the House on 22 March on the meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the euro area that took place in Brussels on 11 March. That meeting agreed that pricing of the European financial stability facility, EFSF, should be lowered to better take into account debt sustainability, while remaining above funding...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I find the Deputy's intervention in this pathetic. For somebody who commissioned over 130 reports and acted on none of them, and who came into this House and denied all responsibility for reading his brief about a charge that cost almost €1 billion in respect of taking money back off geriatric patients in long-stay care, his record in this regard is not one to follow.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I make no apology for attempting to bring about a situation where patient safety is seen and demonstrated to be of critical and fundamental importance to the Government. I am on record on many radio stations throughout the country as saying the Fine Gael Party, as an Opposition party attempting to get into government, was not going to go down the route of endless promises of restoring places...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: If the Deputy cares to do some more research, he will find it on record after record in regard to many local hospitals.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Let me say this about Roscommon. I know Roscommon hospital exceptionally well, I have been there on many occasions, I know many of the people who work there and many of the constituents from County Roscommon have come to me and have come to protest outside my office.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I want to make it clear that what is involved here is changing a situation whereby patient safety becomes paramount. The fact is that the Health Information and Quality Authority has expressed serious safety reservations about the situation that exists in a number of small hospitals where there is not the range of medical capacity to deal with all of the situations that arise. That is not...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The GP service has gathered together to form a co-operative which will provide a call-in centre based in the outpatient department of the hospital and this will operate from 6 p.m. until 9 a.m. The GPs will also provide their own roster for Saturdays and weekends, as heretofore. The vast majority of the treatments that have been provided in Roscommon hospital to good effect over the years...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: That is equally pathetic. What I said on other matters in this House, in respect of which my word can be taken as coming true and through, is that we are going to hold a number of referendums, which Fianna Fáil failed to organise when it was in Government, on accountability and responsibility.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: They are not metaphors; they are facts. We will have one about confidentiality and one about the consequences of Abbeylara. We have made a number of additional decisions which we said we would make.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: If Deputy Martin wants to go down the road of having report cards, he should stick with that. If that is his limit for the moment, he should stay with it. He is doing well. We have a bigger picture to sort out, namely, the challenge that faces our country.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: He stated that the Minister, Deputy Reilly, had the answers to the non-consultant hospital doctor problem. This week the Minister made an amendment to the Act to provide a facility for temporary registration in order to allow greater access for non-consultant hospital doctors to work in this country, an issue which Deputy Martin and his Government failed to address for ten years.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: Year after year, the same problem arose in January and July and he did nothing about it.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Minister has the Government's authority to deal with the problem in so far as non-consultant hospital doctors are concerned and that situation will improve on the next roster because of the changes he has introduced.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has not commented, as others have, on the facilities now being introduced in respect of patient safety in Roscommon.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am sure he will agree that the medical evidence is incontrovertible in so far as mortality rates are concerned.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am sure the Deputy wants every patient to have the best chance of survival, whether from heart attack, stroke or deep trauma.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: The facilities being put there are in the interest of patient safety and the vast majority of treatments carried out in Roscommon hospital will continue as heretofore with an enhanced and improved situation.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: There will be additional facilities in terms of the new ambulance crew and the rapid response vehicle backed up by the trained paramedic team. Believe reality.