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Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin knows as well as I do-----

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: ---- that when the Minister for Health was contesting the general election he was not in possession of the information about the difficulties surrounding the recruitment of non-consultant hospital doctors.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is easy for Deputy Martin to come in here and have all the answers.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It was Deputy Martin who sat on this side of the House and claimed he had no responsibility when matters came his way.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: He did not even read his brief at the time, which cost almost €1 billion.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is not interested in Punch and Judy shows and neither am I, I want every patient to have the best level of care in the most appropriate location convenient to them.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Health met with the personnel in Roscommon Hospital last Friday and pointed out his activity to ensure the people in Roscommon have a decent health service.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I have respect, as I have always had, for the doctors, nurses and others who provide care in Roscommon Hospital.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: When the clinicians meet the Minister and tell him their proposals are designed to put in place a proper structure in Roscommon to deliver what it can do best, it is not the Government's wish to close down any accident and emergency unit. I will not have a situation, however, where patients' safety is at risk in any hospital in the country. We had enough of that with Fianna Fáil for long...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I cannot answer that question because I do not have that information. The Government has made it perfectly clear that it expects leadership from the top when it comes to adjusting to the economic reality. People will be asked to make further sacrifices and in that context we must have a situation where leadership comes from the front. There cannot be a situation where large bonuses are...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Government has made perfectly clear its view about bonus payments. People in these positions are very well paid to do a job. Bonus payments are inappropriate, and the Government has made that statement very clearly. The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, was informing the chairs of the boards officially by letter to ensure there would be under no misunderstanding about what is involved in...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy has made the case eloquently in respect of overstepping of mark, in my view, by semi-States and their boards in the case of bonus payments. I agree with that, and that is the reason the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has already set out his intention to initiate a review of the current performance related awards scheme for chief executive officers of commercial State...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I find it not good practice. I do not want to appear to be in any way vindictive about this but in my view we cannot have a situation such as the one the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, was confronted with last week which was resolved. I also accept that this should not be seen as some sort of individual incident of victory. Everybody in the country, from the highest person down, must...

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 9, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 10, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime; No. 11, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by...

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has raised the matter on a number of occasions. The Opposition will be consulted fully and properly. Deputy Martin is well aware of the process. When a decision is made by Government to hold a referendum, a Bill must be drawn up and published. The Opposition will be consulted in due course. I cannot give the precise date or the hour on which the consultation will take place...

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: A number of the Bills are currently being considered by the Attorney General. Deputy Martin will be consulted, as will the leaders of the other parties and the House.

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The recruitment of hospital doctors is not yet concluded. The Minister will report to the House when that happens. The human rights commission report is an issue the Fianna Fáil Whip could usefully raise at the Whips meeting.

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: As you pointed out to the Deputy, a Cheann Comhairle, these matters can be raised by other means. Deputy Adams can take it that the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, will be happy to give the information to the House when accurate information is available.

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is aware of the recruitment process that took place for non-consultant hospital doctors and the response to that. It is only right and proper in the interests of the health service and those who work within it that the Minister would be able to provide accurate information to the House when he reports, which he will do.

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: He would only make an incomplete statement without giving the detail.