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Order of Business (13 May 2009)

Dan Neville: I support the request that this issue be debated as soon as possible, perhaps tomorrow. Clear suicide ideation and intention were expressed by the father of that family and picked up by the funeral undertaker, but the psychiatric services were not engaged. They should have been engaged immediately, with regard to the psychiatric condition of the father in particular. That was not done. We...

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I would like to deal with the issue of the resources allocated to mental heath and suicide prevention services. It is appropriate to speak on this issue in light of the Monageer report published yesterday. I will refer briefly to it because I strongly believe if intervention has taken place in the case of that family, that tragedy could...

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Dan Neville: I thank the Minister of State for those comments.

Written Answers — Insurance Industry: Insurance Industry (13 May 2009)

Dan Neville: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on recent reports that insurance costs are rising at a time when prices generally are falling; and his further views on whether policy changes could play a role in containing these trends. [19076/09]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (14 May 2009)

Dan Neville: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, that with regard to the Monageer tragedy there was failure by the Health Service Executive and the social services to complete a suicide risk assessment which would have superficially identified ten indicators. These, combined, indicate high risk of suicide and the consequential...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: The Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, which will apply retrospectively from 1 January 2009, places a levy of €160 on all adults and €53 on all children. To reflect these new levies all health insurers have increased their premiums over and above the annual rate of medical inflation, which has averaged 10% in recent years. As a result, health insurance is becoming...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: It is costed.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: The Minister has not read our document. She should do so. It is on the Fine Gael website. She would see-----

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: The other point that we have included-----

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: It is significant that psychiatric services be included in all areas of proposed changes to the health service.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: Under our proposals, psychiatric services will have the same status and will be dealt with in the same way as the general health services. The reforms will broaden primary care and set performance targets for hospitals. The plan borrows from Northern Ireland by proposing a special delivery unit to ensure that hospital waiting lists are sharply cut. I am sure that the Minister is aware of...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: -----the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, because it will then be unnecessary. This is the first area of costings and savings that I can mention.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: This bothers and upsets the Minister. She is not prepared to listen to me. In year five-----

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: It will not be necessary under our system. She should have confidence in our ability to deliver a health service.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: She should have confidence that a health service can be delivered. The Minister is saying that the current system cannot be reformed.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: By interrupting me, she is saying that the health system cannot be comprehensively reformed. What Deputy Reilly, Fine Gael and I are presenting to the Minister is a total reformation of the health service to bring it out of the quagmire in which it finds itself and to restore confidence to those who work within it.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: We would have a health service that is as efficient as those of many of our European colleagues. Year five will see the introduction of universal health insurance, with mandatory health insurance chosen from a range of providers. This will be overseen by a universal health insurance commission, which we will establish early in the lifetime of a Fine Gael-led Government. Under universal...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: Yes, but every hospital will compete.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that employees working for the health board are being charged the new pension levy despite the fact that they will have no entitlement to a public service pension when they retire; and if, in these circumstances he will clarify whether this is a tax or a pension contribution. [19734/09]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (19 May 2009)

Dan Neville: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that persons (details supplied) expressed strong suicidal ideation in the days before their deaths to the funeral undertakers, and the undertakers recognised the seriousness of this by contacting the gardaí, whether the gardaí or Health Service Executive considered an examination of their suicidal intentions;...