Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I know the Tánaiste has many reports crossing her desk and I wanted to describe the nature of the report so that she would be able to give me an accurate reply. When will the report we have read about this morning in the Irish Independent, which was obtained by that newspaper under freedom of information provisions and which concerns the waste of space, the €7.8 million spent on the space challenge programme and all the trips to Florida, be laid before the House?

The third matter I want to raise with the Tánaiste concerns a matter pursued by Deputy Róisín Shortall in the Joint Committee on Health and Children in the past couple of days and about which Deputy Jan O'Sullivan will table a motion before that committee, namely, the utterly dysfunctional nature of the processing of medical cards for over 70s, which was centralised.

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