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- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----when we had more money that would ever have dealt with many of the major problems we have to face. He failed to reform that service. He promised to end hospital waiting lists within two years when he sat on these benches.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: During Deputy Martin's 14 years sitting at the Cabinet table, the overruns in health amounted to €2.2 billion. He was the architect of the PPARS debacle which started at €9 million and ended up at €200 million. Above all, he promised to extend medical cards to an extra 200,000 people during his term, when in fact he cut them by 100,000.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: He has the cheek to come in here now and use his opportunistic political opportunity to say these things. The Minister, Deputy Reilly-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----against the most difficult economic background, has managed in these past two years to make serious changes to the structure of our health system, reducing the cost of the services, but protecting the services.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin said the policy changes were directed at children, sick people and old people. I do not suppose, therefore, that he wants to change tack in respect of 240,000 children under the age of five having free access to GP care.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I know Deputy Martin understands this because when he was Minister for Health and Children and the chief medical officer of the Department at the time suggested that free GP care should be extended to every child in the country, he supported it but then ran away and did nothing about it, just as he did with most other issues he faced. In respect of discretionary medical cards, it is...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but because of the process of change, something was missed. I know of two cases where the card has been granted in the meantime because of the full information becoming available.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: According to the most recently published information, there was a reduction of about 24,000 in the number of discretionary medical cards between the start of 2011 and July 2013. Of those 24,000, some 23,000 were awarded a medical card on the basis of full assessment of their income. On Monday, 14 October, the Minister, Deputy Reilly, met the chief executive of the HSE and the primary care...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yesterday I had a meeting with the personnel involved in this. A completely new communications strategy has been put in place to deal with people and allay their fears and concerns that those who need a medical card will get one and that those who require services will get them. As the Deputy knows, we have full medical cards, GP-visit cards, discretionary cards, emergency cards, long-term...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Eireann) Bill 2013, was published in June 2013, further to a commitment in the Programme for Government. A regulatory impact analysis (RIA) is normally required for all primary legislation but there are certain exceptions to this rule which are set out in the relevant guidelines. As the Bill concerned involved amending the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Remuneration (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The information sought by the Deputy in relation to the name and current salary of each staff member I appointed, is set out in the table below. The salary cost for Special Advisers employed in my Department is €557,788. The comparative full year figure for Special Advisers employed in this Department in 2010 is €1,072,920. Name Title Salary Mark Kennelly Chief of Staff...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Correspondence (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There have been a number of contacts over the years to my Department in relation to this case from the family in question and from public representatives acting on their behalf, including correspondence from the person referred to by the Deputy. I formally responded to this correspondence on 28th May, 2012.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (22 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The total allocation for my Department in the Estimates set out in the Budget Book for 2014 is €17.931 million. This is an overall decrease of 19% on the 2013 Revised Estimate allocation. The administrative budget has decreased by 13% and programme budget by 30%.
- Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: In fact, they commonly introduced changes that were the polar opposite to best international practice which was cruelly exposed during times of so-called full employment when Ireland still had a jobless household rate higher than the European average. Following the crash, the problem became endemic. To those young people, I say that the issue will remain a priority for Government for the...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Of course.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: As the Tánaiste has confirmed in respect of the Magdalen women, there is no difficulty-----
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----other than the verification-----
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is no difficulty other than verification and validation of the paperwork that has been submitted. Some of it is complex, but there is no problem. The Deputy's use of the non-existent word "logjam" is irrelevant in this.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I can confirm that this matter was on the agenda for the Cabinet yesterday, but because other matters had to be dealt with it was not taken. It will not be long.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is expected to have it by the end of the year, but the Cabinet has not yet discussed the heads of it.