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- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: A lot of these questions are asked routinely about the non-principal private residence charge, water charges, commercial rates and so on.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: As we outlined to Opposition parties this morning, the Government decided yesterday to hold the referendum on 10 November. Parties were briefed on that this morning and given copies of the wording of the referendum, as agreed by Cabinet. The Bill will come before the House next week and will be debated in the Oireachtas for two weeks. The name of the person to chair the commission will be...
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: This is an important element and phase in the development of credit unions, which are so important for everyone. They are fundamental to the economic life of the country. Some, admittedly, have serious financial difficulties. The Bill will be published in this session. It is an important Bill and has a bearing on hundreds of thousands of small savers who are loyal to their credit unions....
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: I would leave it to the Minister. I chose to announce to the Dáil yesterday that the Government had decided on the wording of the amendment and that the referendum date would be 10 November. I did that out of courtesy. I intend to continue to make announcements of that nature here.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: That will happen inside a relatively short time. The Dolphin report has been given to the Minister for Health. The report does not set out a list of categorised locations. It sets out Dr. Dolphin's views on a number of locations. The Minister must come to Government with a recommendation arising from the Dolphin report. The Government will then make a decision on what will be one of the...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: However, they are entitled to say that Deputy Adams's taxes - I do not know whether he paid the household charge - go in part to fund the persons who process the applications for the third level grants.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: The local authority, which has responsibility for the household charge under the Act, is entitled to know, in so far as it can, the numbers who have paid the charge or who have yet to pay it-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----because the money goes on facilities and provisions in local authority areas. Clare County Council is not entitled by law to reduce or withhold a portion of the third level grant but as a matter of course it is entitled to as much information about the numbers who have paid the household charge as is required in law.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: I support - as we all do - the right of young people to attend college in this country but Clare County Council and every other county council should be active in having the percentage of those who have not paid the household charge increased so they can publish what they are going to do with that money in terms of facilities and provisions for the people who live in their areas.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Pringle always comes up with the same rant whenever he gets an opportunity to ask a question.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: I will see them on Sunday.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: Prior to the summer recess Deputy Pringle stated in the House that it was time that people like him contributed more. He has not paid his household charge. He sits in this House as an elected representative from County Donegal. That €100 would go in part on allowing Donegal's local authority to offer some element of a provision for facilities in that county.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: He might start living up to his responsibility as an elected representative. He outlined a series of difficulties and challenges in the health service. These are true. Has the Minister, Deputy Reilly, ever stated in this House that it would be easy?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: Has he ever pointed out that it would be simple to turn around a structure that has been-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----like a runaway train for so many years, without accountability to the extent we would like? The inefficiencies built in sucked up money year after year with no increase in output, productivity, efficiency or focus on the patient. I am glad that in the past 15 months significant improvements have been made and I commend those people in the front line services who are now doing more work...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----the changes that have been brought about in the VHI, the implementation of the special delivery unit, which has had a very beneficial impact on trolleys, waiting times and those who have been waiting for longer than 12 months or nine months for treatment, and in regard to the numbers of children who have been waiting a long time for certain treatments, I admit this is not an easy...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: It cannot and will not happen overnight but he is focused on bringing about a situation whereby the health system in this country is transformed into a single tier system in which the focus is on the patient, the money follows the patient, public taxpayers have accountability for the lines of spending throughout the health system-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: -----and the obscenity of waste that has obtained for years is eliminated and the money transferred into the facilities and provision of the best treatment for every patient. It cannot happen overnight. The issues to which Deputy Pringle referred are all up for consideration. The Minister and his Ministers of State, on behalf of the programme for Government, have made a significant impact...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: No. There are 800 fewer children on waiting lists due to the efforts of the Minister, Deputy Reilly, over the past 15 months.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2012)
Enda Kenny: Does Deputy Pringle think it reasonable for anybody to stand up to announce his or her philosophy is nothing but cutting public services at the front line? That is why it is necessary we implement the maximum measures we can achieve out of the Croke Park agreement and to achieve the maximum savings so there will be a minimal impact on the potential for reduction in public services. This is...