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- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Void units, as they are called, are being returned to habitable status. The issue in respect of families who have been put out because of increased pressures in rents is a point of discussion between the two Ministers. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has changed the rules in respect of housing assistance programmes. That allows so many more people to be...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We now have to deal with the supply side and the changes that can be made that will make an impact now, as well as in the longer term.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is the point of discussion that is taking place between the two Ministers.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I hope it can be concluded this week. It will not be Sinn Féin’s way, however.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Sinn Fein’s way would destroy this economy and drive hundreds of thousands of jobs out of the country.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government has put €4 billion on the table for the provision of social housing. The Minister has called in all the local authority chief executives on two occasions. He has stated that they have their targets and they must get on with providing these houses. I expect 200 sites will be opened next year for building social housing all over the country. In addition, NAMA...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have listened to Deputy Martin on this matter on many occasions. He asked what has happened since then and why the situation is worse. I have already pointed out to him that the delayed discharges are reducing steadily since the start of the year freeing up beds, with beds in the community, such as for example, Mount Carmel which has opened and 300 more are due to open very shortly, as...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: With an ageing population and those of senior years increasing in number and living longer, thanks be to God, obviously people are required and have occasion to go to hospital on a very regular basis.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Given that statistic alone, we need further opportunities to treat people.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I want to make it perfectly clear that the people who work on the front-line in our hospitals, and I have seen them do so, work under stressful conditions, under pressure at all times-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and they do a marvellous job, but we get these cases on a pretty regular basis. We have had them in a number of other hospitals around the country recently and they are pointed out for whatever reason. Some hospitals are not able to be as efficient as others.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The chief executive of the HSE has visited 19 hospitals in the last number of weeks where the pressure in this kind of situation was more acute and more obvious than in other cases. I am not saying that staff are resisting change. Change is always difficult to implement but the Government, in response to queries last February and March, put more money into the system to reduce the delayed...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: If the facilities are there and the money is there, is this a management problem, or is it just being exacerbated because of a situation that can apply in any locality-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: ----- where more people have to go to hospital?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: We try to provide the resources and the facilities to deal with the problems but in any line-up in any accident and emergency unit if the choice is to leave a 91 year old on a trolley for 29 hours, I do not accept that should be the case.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: It should not be the case.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I agree with the consultant who wrote his letter and sent it in publicly. Obviously there is a clinical review in this particular case taking place in Tallaght hospital-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and I would like to hear from the person in charge as to the situation that actually applied in this case.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I have said repeatedly to the Deputy that the Government is not going to do anything that would make the situation worse.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: In respect of the construction sector, which collapsed completely under the previous Administration, we have come from a very low base to resurrect it, and that applies across a number of different areas.