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- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and up to 300 overflow beds have been opened.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Community intervention teams have been introduced in Naas and Drogheda. It is not true to say-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has a plan.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: He is working this effectively. He has the full support of the Government, unlike the Fianna Fáil Party which goes back to its way of doing business, namely, a nod and a wink, no plan, no proposal and no case.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I said in response to the leader of the party with no health policy that this is a matter of challenge for the Government. The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, has the full support of the Government in making arrangements to deal with this. That is why he set up the emergency task force to deal with delayed discharges.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is why €25 million was made available which reduced the time people had been waiting for the fair deal and allowed for the beds I mentioned to be opened on both a transitional and an emergency basis. Of course it is realistic to say there are serious challenges facing the health system. The profession and system, while still challenged, is working better than it was when...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: On 17 February, there were 755 delayed discharges nationally, of which 370 were in the Dublin academic teaching hospitals.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Some 555 of those delayed discharges were destined for long-term residential care. The point made by the eminent doctor is of course true. It is not an acceptable situation to have so many elderly people in these situations, and nobody wants to see that. That is why the review of the fair deal will allow for the Minister to present a report to Government on dealing with the challenges and...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is part of implementing the health service plan presented by the HSE which has been accepted by Government.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has no policy and Deputy Adams has no faith. Deputy Adams decided to go elsewhere to get his health treatment, which is his choice.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Fianna Fáil has no health policy.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has no health policy.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: He wants it all funded by increases in income tax. Deputy Adams has no faith in the Irish health system which we are now trying to fix for everybody.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Health has presented, from the HSE, the health service plan for 2015.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government responded to that by not only dealing with the €500 million overrun of last year but also by putting more than €100 million into the budget for this year. Clearly, there are challenges. Nobody wants to see elderly people on trolleys and people who do not need to be in a hospital being kept there when they should be in transitional beds, nursing homes or other...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I will accept that this is a very challenging situation. I accept there have been difficulties for many years now with delayed discharges and the lack of beds, in some cases, to accommodate people who need this kind of attention. I would point out to the Deputy that, as the Minister said this morning, there is not anything new in the information provided in the letter by Dr. O'Connell, who...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy comes in here, week after week, purporting to have all the answers.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: He stands up here, as the leader of his party, a party with no health policy at all-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----that was presented at some press conference in the past that did not even have the support of his own political party. It is the same old story from Deputy Martin every day: "I have all the answers but, actually, we have no policy in regard to health at all." The mythical-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The mythical Fianna Fáil policy will deal with all of these answers some time in the future.