Results 13,701-13,720 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: As I told Deputy Ellis, the Bill will not be proceeded with in so far as imposing a levy on quarries around the country is concerned. However, there will be legislation to establish the pyrite resolution board, which will comply with the initial sum of €10 million allocated for remediation. We need to ascertain the exact number of homes affected by pyrite and make arrangements to deal...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The State, from a fairness perspective, provides a subsidy for every person. As I said earlier, there is a clear decision of Government not to increase income taxes so that people can make these judgments themselves.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 10, motion re report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on the proposal for a Council regulation on the establishment of the European public prosecutor's office COM (2013) 534; No. 11, motion re appointment of ordinary member to the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission; No. 23, statements on pre-European Council meeting of 24-25 October; No. 3,...
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: In this case, a Deputy has resigned from the commission and is being replaced by a Deputy from the same party.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputies Catherine Byrne and Durkan.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The legislation is expected this session.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: This session. As Deputy Martin rightly pointed out and as other Deputies have raised about particular cases that have come into the national media, anybody would look at these cases and say that of course the situations of those children should be helped. I expect they will be. When the move was made to centralise all of the medical card applications, it brought the same assessment right...
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Social Welfare Bill is due for debate in the House this week. The Deputy will have a chance to raise all of those matters.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: In respect of all of these matters, the Deputy can raise them in the course of the Social Welfare Bill.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill is on this week.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Bill is on this week and the Deputy will have plenty of time to air his concerns.
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The heads of the Deputy's first request have not been cleared by Government yet, so that will be next year before that comes through. In respect of the adoption Bill, I understand from the Minister that there are quite a number of constitutional issues, mostly relating to privacy, that have been raised. They have to be dealt with before it can proceed further. So, we are probably talking...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's quotations are accurate and his question is valid. I have already said that the budget as determined and adopted by the Government will stand. I want to make it clear that the question, the misinformation and, in some cases, the accuracy surrounding the debate about medical cards have been the focus of attention for the last number of weeks. Every person in this country who...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The decisions that have been highlighted by various Deputies, and validly so, are cases in point of where we as the Oireachtas, working with the HSE, have to focus on the discretionary elements where these apply. The policy situation in so far as cards are concerned is that discretion applies where there is financial difficulty arising from a person having to cope with a medical challenge or...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Any person who needs a medical card will have one and, in so far as is possible in respect of those persons or children and family members who need aids and appliances or are clearly in a situation where they need assistance, that will happen. For the Deputy's information, we met with the principals from the Health Service Executive about communicating this to people in a way that is very...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Her child, of course, deserves support from the State and that is now being provided.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Healy will be aware that when the comments to which he referred were made, this country was not in the bailout situation it has been in for the past several years.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I told Deputy Healy that his quotations were accurate but I should also remind him that persons over the age of 70 who have lost their full medical cards can access the GP card, which gives them free visits to their doctors. They also have recourse to the drugs repayment scheme, which is important. He did not mention the fact that 240,000 children under the age of five will have free access...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am sure he has met many parents in his constituency who appreciate the fact that if they consider their children have ailments or problems they will be able to bring them to their doctors without having to make difficult decisions. I do not accept his assertions. This budget is designed to get the people of our country, young and old, out of the bailout programme and to move to a point...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is unlike what Fianna Fáil proposed in its own budget for an increase of €500 million. Fairness is involved here.