Results 11,981-12,000 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The fact is that there are now 90,000 people on the housing list and they need accommodation. Every Deputy present knows well the pressure on families to move out of apartments that are too small to detached homes, particularly in greater urban areas.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy started out by talking about homelessness and then she mentioned 90,000 people.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: She should not get them confused in that there is pressure on the construction sector and pressure on for housing. We will have the full debate on housing here shortly.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I would like to hear Deputy Collins's proposition that will bring about an immediate response. We know from the homelessness agencies about the people who are homeless.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: We know the support, including financial support, that is being given to them. One cannot just put them into prefabricated buildings here, there and everywhere. There is a process to be gone through.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The point the Deputy has raised has been raised with me and the Government by a number of Deputies from all parties. I was on Merchant's Quay some time ago with Deputy Catherine Byrne where I met some of the homeless community. I understand the pressures they are under. Deputy Joan Collins is well aware that almost 100,000 houses were built in Ireland during the so-called Celtic Tiger...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I know where Deputy Adams is coming from and I accept the genuineness of his question. Any time I have met the relatives of the Stardust victims, it was obvious that their pain was still palpable. We understand that. If Deputy Adams advises the legal person that the families have employed to send me his evidence of what is different, new and warrants further analysis, I will consider...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and if that is available to the legal person, I invite the families to make a submission to me on that basis and I will consult with the Minister for Justice and Equality on the basis of that evidence, new or different, on how it might progress this matter.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: It will be central to this radical change to the way health services are delivered. That is why the Joint Committee on Health and Children will play a central part in dealing with the preparation and analysis of the baskets of services to be provided.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Everybody will understand that what is involved is equity in access to treatment on the basis of medical need, as distinct from what one can pay and, in terms of community rating, those on lower levels subsidising those on higher levels. This is a serious piece of restructuring of the health service and I accept that we have to get it right. I do not want to see a situation where everybody...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Members of the Deputy's party used to speak about exorbitant charges for this, that and the other.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes, we will publish it very soon.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: In the next couple of weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I did.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I did not tell him there would be an increase of 320% and I do not accept his figures. This is about getting it right because it is going to apply to every person in the country. Everybody will have a say and Deputy Micheál Martin can defend what he wants - an inequitable system that is grossly over cost and not working in the interests of the people.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I have had some engagement with Stardust survivors in the past few years and raised the issue on a number of occasions when I was on the other side of the House. In the recent past, anytime I have been in contact with survivors of the Stardust, I have been accused of not telling the truth or it has been said I should produce information or evidence that would alter what has already been...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has had his little rant.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not accept at all his assertion that this is an attempt to put universal health insurance and the explanation of it out beyond the next general election. As I have said on many occasions, that will be in spring 2016. Long before then, people will understand. The universal health insurance concept, principle and proposal-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----will be explained to people so that everybody understands the value of having a single-tier system as against a two-tier system. Deputy Martin would say that costs will increase. Why would he not? After all, in his own time the cost went up by over 320%-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----from €3.6 billion to over €15 billion, and we ended up with nearly a world record of 569 people on trolleys on one day in January 2011.