Results 16,701-16,720 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: The criminal law (sexual offences) Bill is due for this year. I do not have a publication date for the criminal justice (victims' rights) Bill. Arising from yesterday's questions about the horrific case in the newspapers, I am committed that we should have a discussion here in the Chamber about Deputies' views on the future working of the courts system, and that will take place. The...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: From that point of view the report by the Men's Health Forum in Ireland, published today by the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, will indicate unfortunately that the suicide rate in Ireland is one of the highest in Europe for young males between 20 and 24 years of age and females aged between 50 and 54. The latest data show 552 people committed suicide in Ireland in 2009, the year for which...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: Well may Deputy Martin sneer, laugh and be cynical-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but he left behind a legacy that no other Government in the history of the State had to face and with which we are dealing.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is why there was no increase in income tax for anybody in the country, because we believe a tax on jobs is an imposition.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputies had their chance. I do not believe in having any discrimination among the citizens in the country. The Deputy fails to understand that it was assumed the veneer of invincibility of previous Governments in recent years could keep paying the rates at which money was being doled out.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: We must now deal with the challenge. We will never get the country right unless we deal with our public finances and the deficit. We can only deal with it ourselves. Deputy Boyd Barrett seems to think one can continue to pay exceptional salaries on fantasy money.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I believe many of those young people would be more than willing-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----to build on their graduate experience and work in Irish hospitals as Irish nurses on salaries that are equivalent to starting salaries in the accountancy sector or the teaching sector.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: They are not as high as salaries were in the past but they are job opportunities for the future. For the information of Deputies, in 2012 of the €12 million allocated for suicide prevention €7.1 million went to the National Office for Suicide Prevention and the remaining €5 million was used regionally to fund resource officers for suicide prevention, self harm liaison...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----are coming right and there are job opportunities. The Deputy should have listened to the national media in the past three days as even they were surprised at the positive news of investment and job creation in the country.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is where the hope lies for the future but the Deputy does not want to believe it-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----because he has a vested interest in seeing the country not thrive and not prosper. We are moving away from his position of wanting demonstrations every day. We want to give hope and inspiration and a demonstration that things do work for young people.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I am glad to see it is moving in the right direction. Someday Deputy Boyd Barrett might realise it.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 12a, motion re Membership of Committee; No. 3, Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013 - Second and Remaining Stages (resumed); No. 28, Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 29, Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: What is involved in the health sector is a change in structures and the manner in which the health service is delivered. What the Government has set to be achieved before the end of life of this Administration is a situation wherein front-line services are operating more effectively and a system whereby money follows the patient-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----who can then get treatment based on medical needs rather than financial circumstances. We also propose to introduce universal health insurance for everybody rather than allow the situation which has obtained in this country for years to continue.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: Sinn Féin wants to perpetuate a system which involves agency nurses, premium payments and overtime.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: What the Government wants to do-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----is to change the structure whereby agency nurses can be working one day in ICU, the next day in the respiratory treatment area and the following day in general wards. The system is not operating in the way it should. Savings made in this area will go directly to pay graduate nurses-----