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- Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: It is a matter of priority.
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: It is a matter of priority, as I said in my original reply.
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: A consultation process is under way at the moment. The earliest that would be available would be next year.
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: I understand the residential tenancies (amendment) Bill is not due until next year. The other matter is a matter for its publication by the group concerned and then to deal with it in whatever way it needs to be handled by the House.
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: I do not have a date.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: It is the objective on every occasion to ensure whatever allocation is made in the service plan this year, which is being exceeded in respect of when the plan was drawn up earlier this year, front line services are provided to the greatest extent possible with the money provided. The framework of the Croke Park agreement provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to ensure the changes...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: The Croke Park agreement provides us with the framework to ensure we can make changes on the ground that will minimise the impact at the front line. The current Estimate for health is approximately half of the total receipts coming into the national Exchequer.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: My first reply reiterated that patient safety is of the highest priority. Many of the structural changes and financial constraints in the health service have led to a response from the health service employees that has ensured patient safety remains the highest priority.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: The service that is provided is in excess of the service plan agreed at the beginning of the year. That service planning is crucial if one is to apply resources properly and ensure every area of the health service is funded to meet the basic requirements. Patient safety is of the highest priority. We have an industrial relations framework, through the Croke Park agreement, that will see...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: We would not have had the process or mechanism by which this could happen. Redeployment is a key factor in maintaining services to the greatest extent possible for the funds provided. Patient safety is the highest priority for the professionals who work in the service.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: First, Deputy Gilmore will be aware from the briefings that his finance spokespersons have received that data is currently being compiled for the plan. When the plan has been agreed and approved by Government in due course, it will be published and can be debated in the House. We can set out the various assumptions that are in the plan. Deputy Gilmore was talking about forecasts being...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: In broad terms, what has emerged is that growth prospects for the future from 2011 on are less now. When we have finalised the production of the data, we will convey it and deal with it. The reason the forecasts from 2011 to 2014 have to change from what was predicted in 2010 is that the borrowing costs of sovereign debt have increased, and which need to reduce. The reason we need to...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: In addition, we have a situation where growth forecasts are down. Therefore, that involves an acceleration of how one brings the public finances into order more quickly. Those are the facts. Specific issues arise from that. It is not the case that the forecasts were wrong. They were justified on the basis of what was set out at the time. There have been changes during the course of this...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: That is a continually evolving situation. In reply to Deputy Gilmore, the growth rates will be decided upon when the Department of Finance has finalised its view on those matters. Data are incoming to the Department as we speak. A technical exercise was provided for spokespersons to enable them to see what the scale of the operation would be.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: I am sorry.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: The spokespersons were also briefed on market sensitivities in terms of finalising the figures so that we can make sure that we get the very best possible outcome from the Irish economy's point of view.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: No.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: Those questions will be answered with full clarity when the four-year plan has been completed.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: We have indicated also.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: It is not a question-----