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- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I ask the Deputy to give my regards to his fellow county-people following their victory in the all-Ireland Football Championship.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Let me be clear about a few things. The Commission on Taxation and Social Welfare produced a report on child benefit. I have not seen this report nor has it come to Government. Matters of a budgetary nature are a matter for consideration by the Cabinet collectively and that is what the Cabinet will do in regard to the very challenging preparation work the Minister for Finance, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: When Deputy Martin asked me the question last week about the statutory instrument, I could not recall exactly the nature of the instrument or when it was laid before the Dáil and I promised to revert to him. He is aware that all statutory instruments refer to a legal base. There is no legal base to a primary care Act, so in terms of statutory instruments they refer specifically to...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Those responsible provide a wonderful opportunity and level of service for people.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: It has had the highly beneficial consequence of not having numbers turning up to accident and emergency centres who do not need to go there. More primary centres are needed and what has been announced by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is but part of the requirements that are needed in this regard. There will be more to follow because more are required.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: While I am unsure from what shelf in his archives the Deputy withdrew the poet's lines-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----perhaps before producing it here in the Chamber, he might have reflected on the fact that people on his side of the House stated "I didn't know the IMF was here; it is not here".
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin himself stated this was the cheapest bailout in history.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Moreover, he appeared on many television screens around the world on his travels stating that there was no need for a bailout and that it would be preposterous for Ireland. He should not come into this House and lecture Members with a poet's words. The fact of the matter is that to put together a proposal for primary care centres, be they where leases were involved, where direct Exchequer...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----one actually needs more than the number one sets out to put in place because one would not wish to be subservient to vested interests.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: One would not wish to be caught in a situation where, for instance, general practitioners would not buy into using the facility.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Consequently, the proposal is to have 20 primary care centres under the PPP system. However, if one states they are the only 20 the Government intends to put in place, anyone could refuse to buy into that and therefore, one does not get the results one seeks.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: The Minister has outlined to the House the reasons for expanding the criteria beyond deprivation only.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: They are also to provide for competition, to provide for dealing with potential vested interests-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----to deal with problems that arise with objections in certain locations and so on. I think Deputy Martin can agree that primary care centres are a fundamental part of the changing of the structure of the delivery of health services.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: I have seen them myself and they are operating exceptionally well. I hope the process that is under way to bring to a conclusion the provision of these 20 primary care centres, for which a great deal of development is needed before they become a reality, will result in the provision of those centres of excellence and in confidence for people in those locations.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: They will become a reality out of the 35 sites.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Tá fáilte roimh an Teachta Adams thar n-ais mar ní raibh sé anseo an tseachtain seo chaite. In any event, as for the development of the plans for residential services for older people in County Louth, the HSE Louth-Meath primary services unit established a group to identify those options and to address existing pressures on the existing Cottage Hospital, of which Deputy...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cross-Border Projects (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: Transport is one of the areas of cooperation under the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) process. Regular meetings of the Transport Sectoral Council are held, where transport issues, including investment, are discussed. The next Transport Sectoral is due to take place on 5 October 2012. In relation to the A5 cross-border roads project, as the Deputy will be aware in 2006 the previous...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Responsibilities (2 Oct 2012)
Enda Kenny: My statutory functions in relation to the Central Statistics Office under the Statistics Act 1993, the Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 2005 and the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 were delegated to the Government Chief Whip, Deputy Paul Kehoe, on 22 March 2011.