Results 16,161-16,180 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The money has been ring-fenced for the entire year. The Ministers have looked at various options to make the scheme compliant and the legal advice is clear that all of the options would be discriminatory. In order to comply with the legislation and the Constitution we must devise a new scheme. That is why a sunset clause is being included. The money is not being taken away. It is ring-fenced.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is not a savings exercise, it is about finding a way to provide an inclusive, fair, equitable, non-discriminatory system which deals with those who need it. They have severe physical challenges and need cars to be altered. It is for those who are now in compliance with the new definition under the Disability Act and the Equal Status Act. We are creating a scheme that is much more...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin says the decision of the Government is incomprehensible, wrong, unprecedented and scandalous and was unannounced and that he will stand over his record. Here is the record.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: In December 2010 he sat at the Cabinet table.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The then Minister for Health and Children prepared a memorandum for the Government following a review of the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant by her Department. She decided to close the mobility allowance scheme to new applicants and abolish the motorised transport grant with effect from 1 March 2011.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy stand over his record?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The then Government was afraid to face the truth and there was an election. The Deputy knew, following the comments made by the Ombudsman, that the scheme was not in compliance with the Equal Status Act or the Disability Act and, therefore, not in compliance with the Constitution.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: However, that was nothing new to the Deputy's party which was described years ago for what it was.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government set aside almost €11 million for the scheme for this year. That money is ring-fenced.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yes, it is. What we want to do now-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin stands over his record of refusal to deal with reality. The reality is that these schemes are not in compliance with the Equal Status Act, the Disability Act or the Constitution.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The issue is how to deal with this when one ring-fences money for this purpose. What is required is for us to rise to the challenge of creating a new scheme to provide access to transport for the persons who need it and leave money in situ for that purpose. That is what the Government decided yesterday.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The reality is that Deputy Micheál Martin wants us to continue with a scheme that is deemed to be illegal under the Equal Status Act-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and outside the definition of disability today. The world has utterly changed since that circular was issued in 1979 and we are now charged with dealing with this. The money has been provided for the people who need this service and it will continue to be ring-fenced for that purpose.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: In the forthcoming period the person appointed will meet all the federations and groups. The Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, met the Disability Federation of Ireland last Thursday and officials met the Irish Wheelchair Association and the Disability Federation of Ireland on 12 February. The officials and the Minister of State have...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: At least Deputy Gerry Adams was not responsible for this situation; I will grant him that much. Under the current arrangements, over €10 million was allocated for the full year, to be ring-fenced for both of these schemes. However, they have been deemed to be illegal and not in conformity with the Equal Status Act and, therefore, not in compliance with the Constitution.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: We must now devise a scheme in working with the groups involved. The Minister and the Minister of State met with the vast majority of them in the past month. We must put in place a scheme that is far more comprehensive, fair and equitable than these two which are deemed to be illegal. The Deputy is aware that throughout the country in both urban and rural areas there are a variety of...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: I was interested in the Deputy's comments at the weekend that when one disagrees with something, one always proposes an alternative. I will be interested to hear what he has to say about that. The Deputy has a brass neck to make a political football out of an issue which is very serious for the people concerned. He sat on these benches and reduced the blind person's allowance not once but...
- Order of Business (26 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: Not yet in the first case or the second case.
- Order of Business (26 Feb 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy got me today.