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- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The answer to the Deputy's first question is "Yes." I have already made it perfectly clear to the Deputy and other Deputies that there will be an open debate on the financial circumstances the country faces.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: All the Deputy wants, week after week, is to have individual Ministers in the House making statements.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: May I finish my point, please? The Deputy asked me a question. The week after next the House will discuss the economic situation the country faces as we prepare for budget 2013.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Part of that discussion is to allow for contributions from everybody and anybody on health and every other matter. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform wrote to the chairpersons of each of the Oireachtas select committees, including the Select Committee on Health and Children.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: In his letter the Minister stated a central theme of the reforms, as set out in the Government programme, was the need to strengthen the role of the Oireachtas, in particular, the Dáil select committees in their important task of scrutinising the proposed allocation of public funds and making a more timely and effective contribution to national budgetary and resource allocation policy....
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Gabhaim buíochas don Teachta. Níor chuala mé an focal sin go dtí inné, an focal a dúirt an Teachta óg ansin, "chillax". Sin focal nua don fhoclóir. The details of the overdraft of Tallaght hospital were published on the hospital's website last August. Every hospital signed on for a particular budget figure at the start of the year and we expect...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin has raised a number of issues. It ill behoves him to come into the House as somebody who served in the Department of Health-----
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: We are not going to hide behind the wreckage the Deputy's party left behind. We will not hide behind the litany of failures he epitomised in that Department or the litany of consultants' reports he commissioned and did nothing about. The Government was appointed and elected to serve the country. The HSE was a completely dysfunctional organisation. Squashing the health boards together and...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: What is happening is the start of a generational reform of the health system.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Nobody ever said the system would be transformed in the space of 12 months. We understand it is a major undertaking, affecting people all over the country. I listened this morning to the financial director of Tallaght hospital as she set out very clearly an example of what could actually happen here. This is a hospital which had an extraordinary overrrun in its budget but has managed the...
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The farmers themselves were very happy to hear of the Kerry Group's announcement today of a €100 million investment in the added value for food production.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Bannon for confirming the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine will attend a public meeting in Longford on farming.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Good and noble counties like Longford and Westmeath deserve a public meeting in that regard. The environmental liability Bill is not due until next year.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: That Bill will be taken early next year. I know Deputy Lowry is a man interested in horses and has an old nag running well.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The referendum commission has been activated.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: While it is not a matter for the Order of Business, I am sure that whatever was agreed will be followed through.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan will chair the commission.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The programme for Government contained a commitment to introduce legislation to end upward only rent reviews. As the Deputy will recall, in December last the Government decided not to proceed with the development of the relevant legislation, the Landlord and Tenant (Business Leases Rent Review) Bill on the basis of formal advice received from the Attorney General from a legal and...
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure if the matter is addressed in the housing Bill, but I will have the details sent to the Deputy.
- Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: It will be next year before-----