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- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: One of the reviews is complete, as I said, and two others are nearing completion. I am just as anxious that these would be expedited. With regard to independent reviews I believe it is important to first of all have the internal review completed under the systems that apply. If an independent outside external review is then necessary, that can happen. By the end of March 2016 overall...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: First of all Deputy Adams let fly at Fianna Fáil, then he mentioned health, housing, rural Ireland and An Garda Síochána so I am not sure if the Deputy expects me deal with all four topics in the very short time I have here.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy only asked one question.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy mentioned health, housing, rural Ireland and the Garda situation. Five years ago we inherited a situation where there was not any money, Garda recruitment had come to an end and Templemore was closed. There has been this festering situation in north inner city Dublin and in other locations around the country for quite some time. Government began to put resources, where possible,...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: When a death like this occurs, either at birth or in giving birth, it is always a source of stress and tragedy for the families involved. Obviously, the death of Mrs. Malak Thawley in the National Maternity Hospital was a very stressful time for her husband, Alan, and their extended family. I am aware that in this case, the HSE has confirmed that the master of the National Maternity...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: This document sets out how we can improve and promote maternity and neonatal care in the years ahead in order to ensure such care is safe, standardised and of a high quality. The Minister for Health and the Department of Health are working with the HSE to ensure the full implementation of the strategy. Since December of last year, each maternity hospital, including Cavan General Hospital,...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: It is not my telephone.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Gabh mo leithscéal.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: Every maternity hospital is now publishing a monthly maternity patient safety statement, as recommended in 2014 in the Chief Medical Officer's report on prenatal services in Portlaoise. I can also report that the draft scheme for the health information and patient safety Bill will provide for mandatory external reporting of serious reportable events that arise in the health service. The...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Responsibilities (1 Jun 2016)
Enda Kenny: The term infrastructure covers a number of different areas which fall under the responsibility of a range of individual Ministers. I believe that it is appropriate that the different Ministers lead in respect of infrastructure issues within their areas of responsibility. The Cabinet Committee system will continue to be used to ensure an appropriate "whole of Government", coordinated...
- Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2016: First Stage (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: No.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: One gets many briefing notes in Departments, as Deputy Barry is aware. No memo has come to Government from the Minister for Social Protection in that regard. We launched the comprehensive strategy for work for people with disabilities some time ago. People with disabilities are as entitled to jobs as anybody else. We would like to see them happy in their work and that the work in which...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes, it will start this year, and the summer statement, to be issued after the Estimates for 2016 have been concluded, is the start of that process. I understand that the sectoral committees should be in operation by the week after next. This, in the run-in to the summer period before the House rises and in preparation for budget, is the start of that process. There will be the plenary...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: This is a priority for the new Minister for Health, who will consider it in the context of the preparation for the Estimates for the budget.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Maybe the Deputy did not hear me correctly. It is on the list, at No. 13 today, to be restored to the Order Paper. The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is at a meeting of Ministers for culture in Brussels today. The arts have not been downgraded. The progress of the school admissions Bill will continue. I recently had a bilateral meeting with the Minister for Education and...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The main issue during the run-in to the election was about housing, planning and local government. The priorities were housing and homelessness. It was therefore practical to transform the previous Department into the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Out of that former Department came the question of the environment, central to which is climate change, an area that has...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy should join us on this occasion-----
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: A Bill is not needed for this. The Minister will act in this area.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is aware of the issue raised in Deputy Healy-Rae's last comment in respect of the seven-day provision. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae is well aware that the Government has decided to introduce a basic bank account for post offices so that such business can be conducted in post offices as some extra assistance to them to continue to exist in the time ahead. I will bring Deputy Michael...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has already done that. There is a very clear process for the determination of drugs of this nature. It is done through a clinical process. The meeting is tomorrow and the Minister will be informed and will report on it. Obviously he is anxious to have an effective process expedited in the patients' interests. Decisions are made clinically and not by politicians or the...