Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Would the Minister agree that Mr. Pat McLoughlin's review should also take into account Government policies on premium increases, the cap on tax relief and full cost recouping for private patients in public beds? These are key issues that have inflated private health insurance costs.

In the context of asking the HIA to police the health insurance market, the Minister has many times dismissed the authority's recommendations and overruled them. He brought forward policies that the HIA said should not be introduced.

On the matter of lifetime community rating, it has been obvious for some time that the market is in terminal decline. Young people are not taking it up. That is a direct result not only of the difficulties in the labour market but of Government policy implemented in the House.

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