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Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes. Government has an amendment-----

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----to that motion dealing with the question of the University of Limerick study, which will obviously have to be implemented.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Howlin asked me to answer the question. He asked me what Minister was responsible and I said the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, and the Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Government has not considered the outcome of the study of the University of Limerick but it will consider that-----

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----and make its views known. If there is an opportunity for a debate in the House, we will have that. Minister Howlin, or Deputy Howlin - gabh mo leithscéal - is well aware of the foundation he partly put in place himself. Ireland has moved up nine places to the seventh most competitive economy. The Deputy beside Deputy Howlin, the former Minister for Social Protection, would be...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Sectors of the economy, such as catering and security, which the Deputy mentioned, are vulnerable and the Government will reflect on how best to deal with those vulnerabilities in the interest of continued employment in those sectors while taking into account the vulnerability that obviously exists there.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 5, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 5a, motion re membership of Committee of Selection on the Supplementary Order Paper; and No. 7, statements on mental health services (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Nos. 5 and 5a shall be decided without debate; Private Members’ business shall be No....

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Nobody wants to be put in a position of determining between life and death. This will continue to be an issue because new drugs are being tested, assessed, analysed and created as time passes. A number of new drugs come on stream every year. Deputy Micheál Martin has referred to pembrolizumab and nivolizumab. The new Minister in the Department of Health, Deputy Simon Harris, has...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Of course, the country has invested heavily in innovation and research. A certain number of new and very expensive treatments will be brought forward in the next five or ten years as a result of the work of the many research students working in pharmaceutical companies. We do not know the extent of the cost of these drugs when they are eventually tested and will come on the market. Some of...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: The Minister will look at how effectively much of the €14 billion fund is being spent in areas of the HSE. I am quite sure a significant amount can be saved. We can all understand it would be nice to have a specific fund for exceptionally expensive drugs used to treat a smaller number of patients who really need them because of their particular ailments. I would like to think we can...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: On the last comment of Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----if Trump's comments are racist and dangerous, as they are, there is an alternative to vote for.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: I will respond to Deputy Eamon Ryan. It is important that we have a debate in this House on TTIP. I expect the Whips to make arrangements for the business organisation committee to reflect on that and have an appropriate time for the entire House to discuss TTIP. It is very important. All of the material, as I have said, is on the relevant websites. Yes, it is my view that people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: On the impact of TTIP-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: Yes, I will, but as the negotiations are not finished, we do not have-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: -----a proposal to decide on yet. That will require the consent of the European Council, the European Parliament and each individual country. I do not disagree that it would be in our interests to have an independent objective reflection on the proposals made to date and what might be negotiated during the course of the year. On the Deputy's comment about the arts, we had a Department of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: I cannot presume to determine what decision the US electorate will make to decide between the Republican Party and Democratic Party contenders. The Deputy asked me to presume what we would do in Ireland were the US people to elect Donald Trump. I am sure people North Korea, Russia, Mexico and the Muslim world would be equally interested if the people of the US were to elect him.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Enda Kenny: It is entirely the business of the people of the US.