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- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Social security arrangements are a devolved power. The Deputy's party sought that and got it.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Nonetheless, the costs are borne by the Treasury in London and are separate from the other funding stream of the block grant.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Northern Ireland has no power to act autonomously here. If there is a shortfall, it comes out of the block grant.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: That will be £13 million between January and March of this year, £87 million next year and £114 million between 2015 and 2016. There was a separate legislative measure dealing with the introduction of welfare reform in Northern Ireland. It got as far as the Second Reading and Committee Stage, but it has not progressed beyond that since 2013.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy put a stop to that. He asked for devolved responsibility, but he will not accept it.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: He is afraid to make decisions about welfare reform.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked why we signed up to this. The paper presented, in which I had a central part to play from the Irish Government's point of view, included a direct and specific passage about the Irish language, Scots Gaelic and so forth.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: We made that point very clearly. There is significant movement in respect of the historical investigative unit-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----which will allow for the chairperson, when appointed by both governments, to receive even the most sensitive documentation from the British Government and from its agencies. That includes issues such as Ballymurphy and would include, in my view, other elements of what might not have been produced in the de Silva report in respect of Pat Finucane.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: We could still be in Northern Ireland going around in circles and not making a decision. The fundamental issue is that the Executive and the Assembly sought responsibility for devolved authority and got it in respect of welfare reform-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----pensions and child support, but the Deputy is afraid to face the music and make a choice on welfare reform.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: He is putting off the long day. The Irish Government will continue to support Northern Ireland, as it has done. That will amount to approximately €0.5 billion over the next number of years. The British Prime Minister, in the discussions he conducted with both the First Minister and deputy First Minister, because this is a matter of devolved responsibility, said he was giving them...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: However, Deputy Adams said this was ham-fisted and amateurish and that they were the worst discussions he was involved with in all his years.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: If we put together a political paper upon which agreement can be reached, if Deputy Adams has the courage to face it, and if both governments are in Belfast for the purpose of signing off on an agreement which will give extra spending power to the Executive and Assembly in Northern Ireland, that is neither amateurish nor ham-fisted. The Deputy should have the courage to face up to his...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and do what he must do, or else tell his Deputy First Minister, "Martin, you have responsibility for this". He wants to do a deal, but the Deputy will not let him. It is a major sign of what might happen down here if the people were ever to give the Deputy that type of responsibility in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not a satisfactory position and it is not the first time it has happened. Beaumont hospital is a case in point. It has had these problems for many years. It was only when the Government took office that trolleys began to be counted on a daily basis in hospitals. That never happened previously. The hospital has been working with the special delivery unit on a winter planning...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and the provision of transitional care beds for patients who do not yet have a long-term care place or an appropriate support package.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: A number of patients who had been waiting to be discharged from Beaumont hospital were able to leave as a result of these measures. The Minister for Health is also re-establishing the emergency department forum which will meet for the first time on 22 December and will meet monthly thereafter to examine the solutions being put in place to address the problems experienced by emergency...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: As I said, the situation is not ideal. Ministers recognised this and substantial moneys were made available to the Department of Health and the HSE in the budget both to meet the shortfall and to stabilise and improve the situation in 2015 and beyond.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: In the Estimates €25 million was allocated for 2015, of which €3 million is being brought forward to deal with patients being discharged. Funding has just been approved for 1,000 nursing home support - fair deal - scheme places; 700 routine approvals have been accelerated, while there have been 300 additional approvals in anticipation of €10 million in funding becoming...