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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Nos. 1, 6, 16 and 19 together. Big Dáil change here.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Of course I am. I made an offer to the Deputy last week to help him even further, but we will talk about that again. The Cabinet committee on mortgage arrears and credit availability has met twice since the Dáil summer recess, most recently on 30 September. That answers the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Very succinct answers today.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams is aware that the Government has put in place a whole range of things for mortgages that are in distress. I gave some figures on this last week, I think. At the end of June this year, there were 770,610 private residential mortgage accounts. Out of those, 97,874 were in arrears of more than 90 days. What is the position here? Clearly, the first point of engagement is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----for the lenders, they have signed off on that as being a sustainable solution to a problem that had arisen. I understand the Central Bank has to audit all of these figures that have been submitted by the banks to the Central Bank, which is their licensor, if the Deputy knows what I mean. The indications are that 76%, almost 77%, of those restructured mortgages are actually paying their...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Yes, but while the banks can disagree with the proposition, the fact of the matter is that we have already put into law the stay on any process of repossession until all options are considered. While the banks can disagree with an option that is set out by a practitioner, clearly the last option open is one of bankruptcy, where the banks have no option at all and obviously would lose very...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: At the end of the day, the person who borrowed borrowed from a lender. A personal insolvency practitioner, if it is necessary to go through the insolvency agency, will sit down with the people and work through all of the options. This is independent. The banks may disagree with that, but the end of that line is bankruptcy where they get nothing. It is therefore in the interests of lenders...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: First, the strike should end. This is why I say to Deputy Donnelly, as someone who spoke to doctors this morning, that it is critical the Labour Relations Commission is able to engage with the HSE and the non-consultant hospital doctors, NCHDs. That is where it will be addressed and the only people who really suffer as a consequence of it not being addressed there are patients and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Is that a case of managers not being able to manage or is it because of staff shortages?

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Donnelly made a valid point. The way to address this is to take the propositions by the doctors and the HSE back to the Labour Relations Commission. There are two propositions on sanctions on the table and if there is a difference of opinion, surely they can arrive at a workable compromise that will see the directive fully implemented by the end of next year and will not distress...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Two propositions are on the table. They should go back to the commission to sort out the issue.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Everybody here is interested in seeing that the directive is fully implemented. The Minister set a target for the end of next year and he has made significant progress in that regard, despite 14 years of inactivity.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: In respect of transparency in the HSE, no more than any other organisation, agency or Department that is clearly a given. This is why the Minister for Health wants to transfer responsibility for the Vote back to the Department of Health so that it is answerable to this House. Deputy Donnelly will be aware that when an Estimate is concluded in respect of the budget and when the Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is the report that the party leader to the left of Deputy Adams produced in 2001. It was the report of the national joint steering group on the working hours of non-consultant hospital doctors which cost €254,000 and about which nothing was done.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: It has gone on for 14 years without this matter being attended to. It is a fact that Ireland is committed along with the European Commission to the achievement of compliance by the end of 2014. Targets for implementation here were not met by previous Ministers, including Deputy Martin. The Minister for Health is determined to end this and to have it implemented in full by the end of next...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I have already made the point to Deputy Adams that the Minister's track record since he became Minister for Health has been such that he has reduced the working hours for NCHDs on average to 52.4 hours per week in July 2013.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I will give Deputy Martin the report again.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Previous studies have shown that in 2009, average hours worked for all NCHDs were 60 hours per week. It is now down to 52.4. HSE data from 2012 indicated that on average, NCHDs worked 54 hours per week and data for the first six months of this year show an average of 52.4 hours per week. I understand that the number of NCHDs working shifts in excess of 24 hours decreased from 58% in March...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Sinn Féin actually mentioned that the current VAT rate in the hospitality sector should be retained but it never bothered to say who was going to pay for it.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not know what meaningful discussions Deputy Martin had when he put forward the abolition of Seanad Éireann into his programme. He certainly did not discuss it with any other party. He then changed his mind when he saw the wind was blowing the way it might suit him.