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Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach needs to be honest with people and say this will cost more. It will cost people extra money. I was not the first to say that. The Ministers for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputies Noonan and Howlin, were the first to raise the red flag on this.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister is shaking his head. He should publish the memo that was circulated today. Why not publish it? If The Irish Times can get it, surely the Dáil can get the memo. Why not publish the White Paper?

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The people have been waiting three years for the White Paper on universal health insurance.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Despite all the talk of radical change, the only reality for people is that the cost of health insurance policies has gone up 60% in the meantime. Tax relief for health insurance policies has been curtailed.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: There is serious uncertainty about the private health insurance market.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is what is happening now. The same is happening with medical cards. They are being taken from people.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Thirty-five thousand medical cards are being taken from older people this year. Disgracefully, medical cards have been taken from young children with multiple special needs. People are worried because their sense of universal health care as advanced by this Government has meant a withdrawal of services-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----in the primary care field, the acute hospital setting-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and in the community care setting through the reduction in home help hours, the massive increase in private health insurance premiums and the reductions in tax relief. There is an incredible yawning gap between the reality as experienced by people and the rhetoric peddled day in, day out, with no detail and no serious or substantive debate in this House about what is supposed to be the...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: It never did.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: We have a very fine legacy in health.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Why are people living longer?

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Something must be working. Does the Taoiseach have a problem with longevity?

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has confirmed what I said in my original question; the Government is delaying universal health insurance, UHI. He has just said the Government confirmed the concept, but the concept was confirmed before the last general election, with statements like the "money follows the patient" and that kind of soundbite which got him through the last general election. The Taoiseach has now...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: This week the Executive has usurped the Parliament and has forced upon us for the next three days a debate on Government priorities, with no legislation at all tabled by the Government side. In that context, could the Taoiseach confirm whether the Government has delayed making any decision on implementing the plans of the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, for universal health insurance for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Political Reform (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on progress on political reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11039/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Political Reform (4 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: 300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on progress on political reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11038/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 217. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is going to appoint a new Garda confidential recipient; the timeframe for a new appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10293/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 218. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the resources that will be made available to Mr. Justice Cooke in his review of the potential bugging of GSOC incident; if witnesses will be compelled to attend hearings and all documents legally obliged to be submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10294/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System (27 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received a report from the Garda inspectorate recently; the steps he has taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10077/14]