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- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: What I am trying to do is do a deal on a package for the future for-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----all cystic fibrosis sufferers.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Minister expects that it is now entering a critical phase finally.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: He is focused now-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----on concluding the process in the interests of all the cystic fibrosis sufferers, not just for now, but for the future, with-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----Orkambi, Kalydeco and any new drug that comes along.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I cannot answer that question for the Deputy. The fact is that, under the Public Appointments Service, PAS, people apply online for positions that may become vacant in any of these. They are assessed and identified independently as to the conditions, the experience and the competence to do a job. Recommendations are then sent to the Minister of the day in order that he or she can pick from...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I hope you are not doing after hours down there when the gardaí are not around.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: In any event, the Garda Commissioner recommended that particular stations be closed. The Government did not pick from a list and say it was closing certain stations. Obviously, what happened in many areas where a station was closed was that the superintendent or chief superintendent in the area used the time the gardaí would have been in the station in question to travel around the...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I ask the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Richard Bruton, to respond to that.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: The change in the way that we do business in this House-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----resulted in Deputies being able to bring forward pieces of legislation, as in the case of Deputy Gino Kenny. It also means that these are not, in the main, objected to and they form part of the line of legislation to be prioritised by the group that puts them forward. The Business Committee has a role in that regard. The Government cannot choose what Bill will be dealt with. There...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: The application has been lodged.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has already approved medicinal drugs on the basis of a prescription. I met with the child's mother in Cork recently to discuss this matter. The Minister will introduce a compassionate formula for the delivery of drugs of this nature but whether he does or does not, he still requires a prescription to be issued by a clinical expert.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy may not want to hear it but the Minister for Health does not write prescriptions for the allocation of drugs.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: Within existing law, if the clinical person-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----writes a prescription for the drug to be allocated to the child in question the Minister can then act.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan, has been in touch with the Egyptian ambassador on many occasions. As I pointed out, our consular services in Cairo are in frequent contact with Mr. Halawa. I met Mr. Halawa's brothers, sisters and father and will be happy to raise the matter again with the Egyptian President and I am sure his response will be the same as...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I disagree with Deputy Ó Caoláin. At 8 a.m. today the HSE TrolleyGAR system indicated that nationally 355 patients were waiting on trolleys in acute hospitals, which admittedly is too many, but it is down from 411 last week and 463 on this day last year. There is no doubt that the number is too high and the HSE's special delivery unit continues to work with all hospitals to...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I am concerned about this matter. The Ceann Comhairle led an all-party delegation to Egypt. I have spoken to the Egyptian President on two occasions, personally face-to face and by telephone. There have been 55 consular visits to Ibrahim in the prison. He is the only European in this situation and the President made it perfectly clear that he is quite willing to use his power of...