Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I plan to periodically remind the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach about the Dublin South by-election.

In regard to the social welfare Bill, the Tánaiste is now providing new information to the House. My understanding from what she told us last week was that the removal of the medical card from pensioners would be in the Bill. She now tells us the Bill will be published in the first week of November. It is now 21 October. Is the Tánaiste telling the House the Government does not know if the removal of the medical card will be included in a Bill which is to be published on 1 November?

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