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- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----who can gain experience and, based on their training, provide a first class service for patients.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: What Deputy McDonald and others are saying, which I regret, is that these jobs are not suitable for young nurses. We are creating 1,000 jobs in Irish hospitals for graduate nurses, whom I hope will take up those positions. It is always the case, Deputy McDonald, that the people inside the system who are being paid to deliver the quality service often complain about it. The service will not...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----is targeting redundancies in the areas of education, health, agriculture and back office administration while at the same time increasing numbers on the front-line service through the employment of graduate nurses.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I would also point out that Government has already made decisions in the budget which will impact on those on high salaries, not only in respect of people who have properties valued in excess of €1 million-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but in respect of pension reliefs for those with pensions in excess of €60,000, which, as the Deputy is well aware, will bring in €250 million. It is a case of not having increased income taxes for everybody but of making those who earn more pay more.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: That is equitable and fair and will be seen to be so. As regards the former politicians to whom Deputy McDonald referred-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----I do not speak for them. I commend all those who did abide by the agreement. I listened to the news this morning and heard the names mentioned. This Government has made decisions for the future in respect of all politicians, including the abolition of severance pay and the reduction in salaries, which will impact on pensions. Sinn Féin only wants to pick out issues which it...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: We had some questions on this issue yesterday. In the three years prior to the election of this Government to office 250,000 jobs were lost in the private sector in this country, which directly affected many of the people of whom Deputy Boyd Barrett speaks.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is the challenge of Government to rectify the problems it inherited in this regard, to rectify our public finances-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----to change the structure of how we do business, to grow our economy and to create jobs.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: This cannot be done unless there is trust and an understanding that this country will do as it says it will. At long last, there are signs of confidence in this country, including investor confidence, and our international reputation has been restored. We are moving in the right direction.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I sympathise with every family in this country who has lost a family member through suicide. I have visited the homes of many such people and have heard them voice the unspeakable questions of whether they should have noticed something, asked a particular question or done something. Deputy Boyd Barrett made the point in his normal charge that this is the result of continuing austerity by...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: Perhaps Deputy McGrath would be quiet for once while we discuss this serious matter.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: The budget for the National Office for Suicide Prevention has increased from €4.1 million to €8.1 million.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's colleague spoke about austerity and cuts in this area. Everybody understands the enormous amount of work that is being done to attempt to prevent this phenomenon from continuing at its current rate.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is not the case that delay is the order of the day here. Let me repeat what the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, NCPE, stated when it conducted its health technology assessment. It stated that "In view of the very high drug acquisition cost, the significant budget impact, the absence of long term clinical data and the fact that the company has failed to demonstrate the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and obviously it is an effective drug, but there is an issue that needs to be followed through. The next step in this process is for the HSE to meet the manufacturer of the drug in accordance with the procedures set out by IPHA. When the Minister for Health met them last year-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----he concluded a deal for €400 million over three years. This is a new very expensive drug with an impact for an estimated 113 to 120 patients.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not deny anyone having the right to have the best quality of life we can give them. It is a €26 million to €28 million impact on costs and obviously ceilings for this year's budget have been set. The HSE will now meet the company to see if some deal can be worked out here.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not want to pre-empt the conclusion of that.