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- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: There are those who are rough sleepers in this city. I listened to a very effective and very efficient official this morning speaking about what is happening in this city and the efforts that have been made, which are proving to be very successful, to deal with that particular problem even though the population of those who are rough sleepers has changed over the past period. There is the...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I agree with the consultant concerned-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----that this is a shocking example of dysfunctionality in the system. One does not need legislation to know that a 91 year old should not be left on a trolley for lengthy periods.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The same applies in respect of the man's wife. One does not need legislation to understand that.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I would like to know who is responsible for that 91 year old man being left on a trolley for 29 hours.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I know that there are serious changes being implemented in many of our hospitals.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Some of these changes are being resisted, as they always have been resisted.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is important to understand, from any sense of humanity, that a 91 year old man should not be left on a trolley in the first instance, if that can be at all prevented and, if not, certainly not for that length of time.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: As pointed out by the consultant, this indignity, lack of privacy and noise and light interference in this man's senior years is unacceptable.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Emergency department overcrowding remains a serious challenge. We were told earlier on this year that the provision of additional funding for the fair deal scheme would help to bring down waiting times under that scheme from 15 weeks to a more normal level and that this would end this particular problem. That funding was provided. It is now four weeks on and it did not deal with the...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The task force set up by the Minister in respect of emergency departments meets on a regular basis. There are more beds. Delayed discharges have been reducing steadily since the start of the year. Beds in the community - for instance, in Mount Carmel - have been opened and 300 additional hospital beds are to open shortly, as already announced and in respect of which money is in place. A...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: This is a challenge for everybody. The Minister has provided the money through the budget. Extra staff have been appointed and yet these kinds of cases continue to arise.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I would like to hear the response from the hospital. I am not passing the buck-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----but the point is that anybody in an accident and emergency department who has to make choices knows that-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----a 91 year old person should not be left on a trolley for 29 hours.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I agree with this consultant in his views.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I welcome the opportunity to open the debate on Northern Ireland as we face once again into a critical juncture for the peace process. I can assure the House that the two governments in Dublin and London remain steadfast and determined to support the parties in the North to reach agreement on critical issues. With the conclusion of the Stormont House Agreement in December 2014 after...
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The sale of alcohol Bill is due next year and the alcohol (health) Bill is due this session.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is due towards the first half of next year.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: At Deputy Mathews's request and in respect to those important Deputies, I will of course keep it as a priority.