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Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----make the best effort he or she can in the interests of the patients whom he or she serves. The situation has more facilities, personnel and money allocated to it than before. Obviously, the management of that in the interests of providing better services for patients is what is paramount for everybody. I hope the INMO and the State's machinery will be able to work out a situation...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: I repeat for Deputy Adams that there are 700 extra nurses employed in the system now.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: These are real, professional people.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: I have said to Deputy Adams that 300 additional consultants have been appointed since 2011, with-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----57 this year. These are professional people.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: What does Deputy Adams want to do with the consultants? What does the Sinn Féin Party want to do with the consultants?

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: It wants to drop their pay and increase their taxes.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: Yes, it does.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is what Sinn Féin wants to do.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: The situation is, clearly, if Deputy Adams examines the facts for once, that the HSE and the Department of Health have difficulty in recruiting consultants to work in our hospitals because of their remuneration levels.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams goes around the country saying that they are wealthy-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----and that consultants must have their pay reduced-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----and their taxes increased.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: He will do the same with the nurses and everybody else because his party claims that-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----everything is free in this country-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----but somebody has to pay at the end, and increased income tax is where it is based.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: Prevention, capacity and community are all being addressed through extra facilities-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----extra personnel and extra resources-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----allocated by the Minister for Health to this particular situation this year.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is better than it was in August and it is better than it was in January, and if Deputy Adams has anything constructive to say-----