Results 4,521-4,540 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Healy-Rae understates himself when he says there are far more experienced people than him in the House. I can assure the Deputy that there has been no change of policy in the Department of Health or the HSE in respect of discretionary medical cards. Given that the Deputy deals with such a volume of inquiries about medical cards, it may well be the case that a number have come through...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Consultants usually only write letters to point out a deterioration in the circumstances of patients or when there is a requirement for a card to be issued. They are called discretionary medical cards because discretion can be applied, even if only for a short time. I do not know the individual or official who made the decision to which the Deputy referred, but it seems to be extraordinary...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill, the Minister for Justice and Equality will next week bring a motion to the Cabinet restoring the Bill to the Order Paper and it will proceed from there.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: In case the Deputy did not hear me properly, let me assure him again that the Government will provide whatever resources, facilities and capacity are necessary for the Garda Síochána to tackle gangland shootings, killings and murders. This Government will see to it that those resources are made available as and when they are required. The mobility allowance is not as simple as...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Yes, it is urgent, and I will take it up as a matter of urgency. In respect of housing and homelessness, the first thing we did was to make this an absolute Government priority, with a Minister for housing, planning and local government. We have set up the Cabinet committee. Within the first 100 days the Departments of housing, planning and local government, Finance, Transport, Tourism and...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----under Part V. The figures that the Minister quoted-----
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: ----are from the 2011 census. That is for 240,000 houses, excluding 60,000 further houses that are holiday homes.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: We have not had a briefing on the young woman named Grace from the Attorney General. I will come back to the Deputy on this matter to say what progress has been made. In regard to the bed capacity review, I did hear the discussion this morning about Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and the 104 vacancies there. There is no embargo on recruitment, provided the hospital in question has the...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: I listened carefully to the discussion that took place, and there is no embargo in respect of critical appointments such as that. I will have the new Minister for Health advise the Deputy of the commencement of the bed capacity review and its completion date.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: It worked very well in the Department of Finance for several years, as the Deputy will be aware.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Let me just repeat for Deputy Howlin, because he is not a man who misunderstands things: when I said I cannot do anything about it, I meant myself, as a citizen, in the murderous dispute between the Kinahans and the Hutches-----
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: As Head of Government I want to make it perfectly clear that the Government will make available whatever resources, backing and facilities our gardaí need to deal with this matter and these matters. CAB arrests have been made, court cases are pending and people will be brought before the courts. As Head of Government, as Taoiseach and with my privilege to serve here, I will see to it...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the roll-out of rural broadband, the contractual obligations with regard to the contract to service areas throughout the country are the responsibility of one Department and remain so. When that contract is awarded, the roll-out of the requirement for broadband and task forces throughout the country will shift because of the emphasis laid in the past 80 days on regional and...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The complications in trying to extract the contractual details from a Department would be enormously complex. The contract will proceed in the Department as is. When that contract is signed and awarded, its roll-out will take place through the Department of regional development, rural affairs, arts and the Gaeltacht-----
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: -----and by task forces throughout the country, the contract having been awarded.
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the latter, there is no embargo on recruitment provided that the hospital in question has the resources to recruit the staff necessary. In particular, there is no embargo in respect of critical staff being employed in the intensive care unit.
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: As Deputy Howlin is well aware, we cannot have an open-ended recruitment process if the money and resources are not available, either for particular hospitals or for any Department. The Minister has not commented upon any expediting of the agreements, save to say that both will have to be implemented in their entirety. He has commended the many hundreds of thousands of public servants...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: The Order of Business shall be as follows: No. 6, statements on Mental Health Services (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Private Members' business shall be No. 14, motion re domestic water charges, and the following time limits and sequence of speakers shall apply: proposer – 40 minutes; Government – 20 minutes; Fianna Fáil...
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: I will refer to Deputy Martin's question first. I made the point that this is a vicious, murderous campaign between two families which I, as a person, cannot stop. However, I assure Deputy Martin, the House and the people that, as Head of Government, whatever resources, facilities and backing the Garda Commissioner requests from the Government to protect our citizens and to deal with this...
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams asked me if I had spoken to the Commissioner about this matter and I answered him by saying that I had not spoken to the Commissioner about it. As Deputy Adams is well aware, the Commissioner is not entitled to speak to me or anyone else about evidence she would have given under oath to the O'Higgins commission.