Results 5,281-5,300 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is wrong again. The Government concluded the Supplementary Estimate for health this morning, which is a serious increase on what was there for the past number of years. That is all aimed, within the prudent management of the economy, at attempting to provide the best level of service we can for patients. The Government remains committed to universal health care and the provision...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The emergency department at University College Galway is not fit for purpose in this day and age.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The staff in the hospital are working under extraordinary conditions. It is one of the most inadequate facilities in the country and needs to be replaced. I am not privy to the details of the stage it has reached in its design or architectural planning. The HSE has to send its service plan to the Minister for Health in the next week or ten days.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is very necessary that this piece of infrastructure be provided. As the Deputy is well aware and as he has seen at first hand, University Hospital Galway is a centre of excellence which has an enormous reach in terms of the different medical facilities provided. I assume the Deputy saw the new building that is under construction and which has been awaited for a very long time. He is...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I accept that it requires approval, design and planning, all of the processes that must be gone through, at the end of which a very substantial sum will be invested to replace it. I do not object to the point made by Deputy MIcheál Martin. The facility needs to be replaced, but we cannot replace it over night. As the Deputy is well aware from his own experience in this field, such...
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: We have had a number of debates about this. I am sure the Deputy was happy at the meeting in Ballymascanlon to point out that €200 million would be allocated to the Garda for information sharing and information capacity enhancement. We have joined the Schengen information system, which will mean every garda on the beat will have that information. The college in Templemore is open...
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not know - Ballymascanlon legislation.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: On the opportunity for a debate, we will have it at some stage.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the first question, the heads of the Bill were cleared in September and it will be next year before the legislation is published. There is no reason, as has applied for many years, local authorities should not be in the business, or getting back into the business, of building houses. I recall as a member of a local authority there always being a serious housing development...
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: No, it will not be enacted before the conclusion of this session of the Dáil. It is an important Bill.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is due for publication next year and the point the Deputy made is that the Minister of State has referred to additional heads being inserted in the Bill. It will, therefore, not be enacted before the end of this year.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: That Bill is on Committee Stage in the Seanad.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government Chief Whip and the Deputy's party Whip can discuss this at the Whips meeting. There is quite a list of Bills that we would like to get through. Obviously, Members have a right to have their say but, in so far as is possible, I would like to see as many Bills as possible put through both Houses. Time is getting short, as the Deputy will understand.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Every Member should be informed of the assessment of the difficulties as outlined by the judge in so far as the Oireachtas can deal with this and I would like to have the views of as many people as possible.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am not too sure whether the Deputy heard me the last time. We will have to wait for that until the new year.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: The criminal justice (victims rights) Bill is due to go through this session. In respect of the panel, the Minister for Justice and Equality has started to respond with letters to the personnel involved. As I am aware, and I will confirm this to the Deputy, the number of cases where further action is recommended is quite small. Not everybody will be pleased with that given the nature and...
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes, I am aware of that.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the question of debates arising from the Constitutional Convention, I gave the Deputy an undertaking that we would have that debate before the House rises, and we will do so.
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Gerry Adams asked me a question about the Constitutional Convention reports that were not discussed here. I gave him an undertaking that we would have those debates before the House rises for this session and we will do that. In regard to the question of the climate change Bill, the amendments from the Seanad will be taken on Thursday morning here in the Dáil and I would...
- Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)
Enda Kenny: That Bill is due for publication next year.