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- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I am sure the Minister will follow through in his comments about a tillage fund. I say to Deputy Murphy O'Mahony and any other Deputies raising the question of GLAS payments that payments of any grants from any Department depend on two factors: availability of money and eligibility or conformity with the conditions.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I am sure the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is not saying some payments cannot be made because of some technical hitch. There must be a reason for this. The money is in place and the applications have come in. Do they conform with the requirements for release of the money? These payments have been made in the vast majority of cases and I am quite sure the Minister for...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: That was enacted in 2004. If those people are to be included in its remit, an amending Bill would have to be introduced. I will have the matter examined and I will advise the Deputy on that.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: Ireland is often used as a reference point. The House is aware that the Minister for Health has been working with a number of other health Ministries in different countries to deal with the pharmaceutical companies in terms of getting best value for taxpayers' money for patients suffering from particular conditions or who must contend with particular challenges. He is working within that...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I would like to study the report. I think the point made by Deputy Howlin is self-evident. I understand that the Low Pay Commission has to bring forward recommendations in the not too distant future based on its assessment of where we should be now. I am quite sure it has taken the Deputy's point into account. Clearly, the day when women, as against men, were expected to work six hours...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: No more than in any other dispute-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I hope the issue of the workers in Tesco can be sorted out by people continuing to engage in discussions and negotiations on their differences of opinion. I understand that the stores are open. This issue needs to be resolved and the capacity is there to do that. I do not support the Sinn Féin Bill because it would seriously undermine the voluntary concept of industrial relations we...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Cullinane is quite entitled to bring forward the Bill. I think that when the arguments are put forth here-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is talking about a serious change in the volunteer concept of industrial relations----- The Taoiseach: It is clear that the Deputy is talking about a serious change in so far as the volunteer concept of industrial relations is concerned.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----and in the scale of activity of multiple unions in any business. It is worthy of a good discussion, but I do not support it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: I met Aisling and people from Sligo-Leitrim in Sligo recently at a candlelight vigil relating to Orkambi.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputies O'Dea and MacSharry are well aware that the Minister and the Cabinet of the day do not make the clinical decision on any drug. The HSE has re-entered talks with Vertex.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: Reports that they were ended are not correct. The fact is that the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, NCPE-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----which is completely independent in the way it judges the improvement in the quality of life for any drug to be given to any patient – and I regret of course, and sympathise with those, where the death of anybody has occurred, never mind children – undertook the assessment of Orkambi and noted that the drug was not considered cost-effective at a price of €160,000 per...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: It is not somewhere between the committee and the Cabinet.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: If the recommendation of the NCPE is that it accepts that the price being offered or mooted by Vertex is in the interests of the patients to improve the quality of their lives-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: ------and that comes to the Minister for Health and the Cabinet with a recommendation that is positive, that is what we will act on. We do not make the decisions.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: We do not make the decisions about the improved quality of life for any patient. I understand this and mentioned it to the people whom I met in Sligo.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: The NCPE has provided very clear guidance on a price that is considered fair and cost-effective to deal with the improvement in the quality of life.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)
Enda Kenny: Vertex needs to come back. I do not know where it is now with its offer.