Results 7,221-7,240 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is open to every Deputy, including Deputy Paul Murphy. He can go and ask Irish Water instead of expecting me to spoonfeed him. With respect to the legislation, the Government expects to have legislated for this before the end of this session. The matter will be discussed here and in the committee rooms as one would expect. No doubt, Deputy Paul Murphy will be fully entitled to...
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: To tell you where to go.
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: What comment?
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes, I said the Deputy can go to the audio-visual room at 4 o’clock to hear Irish Water.
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: They do deserve an explanation. As I pointed out, many actions have been taken in Portlaoise. It is not good enough that for 50 years we have relied on reports that follow tragic incidents in hospitals, taken some actions to address the findings and moved on. The point of HIQA is that it is an independent authority that can walk into a hospital and analyse, investigate and assess any...
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: Arising from the latest HIQA report on Portlaoise, there are eight clear recommendations, including to establish an independent patient advocacy service; ensure the recommendations of this and previous HIQA reports are implemented; develop a national maternity strategy; expedite the necessary legal framework for hospital groups to perform their governance and assurance functions; and four...
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: A director of midwifery has been appointed for Portlaoise hospital. The report is stark and disturbing and the recommendations are not only accepted, but will be implemented in full.
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The eight babies who have passed on should have this legacy, which has been driven by the persistence of their parents.
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's speech is no different from the ones he has made before. He knows as well as I do that if he wants this detailed information, Irish Water will supply it to him. The Deputy said that in the 1990s people were threatened with disconnection. The Government has listened very carefully to the genuine concerns of people all over the country and has legislated for the fact that there...
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: My understanding is that the Minister wrote to HIQA on 14 May requesting that the authority prioritise the monitoring of the maternity unit in Cavan against the national standards for safe and better health care as part of the overall response to the chief medical officer's report into Portlaoise maternity services. HIQA includes Cavan in its response and as part of a national analysis of...
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The opportunity will arise today, at the Oireachtas committee hearing which HIQA will attend, to deal with matters arising in the report.
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: We need to focus on maternity services so that every expectant mother can look forward to giving birth in a maternity unit where the highest standards apply.
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I do not have the medical details of the tragedy in Cavan last night or what was the cause of the death of the little baby but I assume the investigation currently ongoing will bring it to light very quickly.
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I accept that the imperative now is to implement the recommendations arising from the HIQA report into the situation at Portlaoise. They have been accepted by the Department of Health and the HSE and will have implications for other hospitals in terms of demonstrating that the standards of competence and service available in the 19 maternity units around the country are of the highest order....
- Leaders' Questions (13 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: First, it is my duty, with everybody else, to sympathise following the latest personal tragedy involving the death of a baby at Cavan General Hospital yesterday evening. I sympathise with the parents of the dead baby. This is the fourth baby to die at Cavan General Hospital in the past few years and clearly it is traumatic. The HSE is investigating the background and cause of this death...
- Order of Business (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Roads (Amendment) Bill is due in the second half of this year.
- Order of Business (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Bill for drug testing were cleared in February this year and it is due for publication in the second half of the year. A great deal of work has been done regarding sexual offences and that Bill will be in this session. A quite complex series of amendments has been brought forward but I expect it to be finished and published in this session.
- Order of Business (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: I assume the Deputy is talking about the Bill for the amalgamation of the bodies. It has gone for signature to the President. It has been concluded.
- Order of Business (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, sought public consultation on this and he received more than 90 submissions. He is considering all those and I hope it can be put together before the summer.
- Order of Business (12 May 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is called the Urban Regeneration Bill and it is expected very shortly.