Results 11,201-11,220 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: We need to have a process for dealing with the valid claims of young couples and young people to get a start on the housing ladder with affordable quality housing built by people who know what they are doing. We do not want to have apartment after apartment fired up and after they are occupied we discover they either have pyrite or are like Priory Hall. We are not going back there. We will...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is not what his leader says.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Block the ears.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Nobody should be asked that question, Deputy McGrath.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I cannot defend somebody in whatever office-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----sending out a reply to a person who suffers from motor neurone disease asking if the person is still suffering from the disease.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is what we have to get right.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is where the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and others are working to ensure that the package of services and facilities are made available to those people in their particular difficulties.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I understand Deputies raising the question of discretionary cards. I have given them the figures three years on from 2011 but I want them to understand that there is not an attempt here to show lack of understanding, compassion or consideration for people who have these challenges.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is a question of getting a system that is fair for everybody. This issue has been raised with me over the years. I have been asked questions such as, "How come this person had got a medical card and I cannot have one?" and "How come this was allowed and it was not allowed in my case?"
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: If we are going to have a standard, we need to look at what we are doing here. If it is on the basis of financial hardship, we need to apply discretion as far as we can but we need to put the local integrated package around people who need it to see that they get that care and attention.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Let me assure Deputy Martin that he is not the arbiter of all things that are just and fair in the country.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: His own record speaks for itself - it was disgraceful. I called in the HSE, the Minister for Health and everybody else to discuss these questions-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----because Deputies on this side of the House were bringing to our attention very serious cases. I have not heard Deputy Martin say that the law should be changed from what it is at the moment where it is based on financial hardship.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I have a case here myself.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Let us have a conversation about it. If the Deputies want to decide to change the legislation to base it on medical needs as distinct from income and financial hardship that flows form that, well then we are entering a very different sphere here.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: What I am trying to do here is to ensure-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----that the people who need care, attention, facilities and aids for their particular illness get them-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----but of course there are differences of opinion and perception about the medical card, the long term illness card, the discretionary card-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the discretionary card given in exceptional circumstances-----