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- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Diplomatic Representation Issues (8 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I hosted a brief courtesy call from Governor Brown on 18 July in Government Buildings. Governor Brown was on a private visit to Ireland, and was accompanied by his wife, Anne Gust, and his sister, Kathleen Brown. Our discussions were informal and covered a range of issues including the economic challenges for Ireland and California, as well as the challenges for other EU economies and the...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The position is that when this Government was elected discretionary medical card applications were not routinely assessed by medical personnel. On the instructions of the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, a clinical panel was established to assess the processing of applications for discretionary medical cards. This allows medical professionals to have an input into granting a...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Some 22,000 people who had discretionary medical cards now qualify for ordinary medical cards as they meet the income guidelines.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Since 2011, some 22,584 individuals who were previously recorded on the medical card register as having been eligible for a discretionary medical card are now registered as medical card holders in their own right as they meet the eligibility criteria. The Health Service Executive can only award medical cards in accordance with the Health Act, which requires that applicants be assessed....
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There is no target set in the Health Service Executive national plan to reduce the number of discretionary medical cards. I have provided the figure on the number of holders of discretionary medical cards who now have full ordinary medical cards. The HSE produced a national assessment guideline to give a clear framework for assessing eligibility for discretionary medical cards for persons...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I have listened to the Deputy. There has been no change in the method-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There has been no change in the allocation of discretionary medical cards. I am not saying that every case gets a medical card. I am saying that 22,584 people, who had discretionary medical cards, have moved from discretionary medical cards to full medical cards. That is a fact.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: May I proceed? Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The number of individuals who had eligibility to a medical card or a GP visit card on a discretionary basis on 1 January in 2009 was 93,000 and 78,000 in 2013. As I said, 22,584 have moved on to full medical cards. In cases of emergency situations, the HSE has a system in place for the provision of emergency medical cards for patients who...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: There has been no change in the policy or methodology. The first test-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Who is listening now?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy never wants to hear the truth because he is afraid of it. The first test in the assessment process is whether, following the medical card and GP visit card national assessment guidelines, the applicant is within the income limit. If the applicant is above the financial threshold and there is evidence of medical circumstances or social circumstances applicable to the applicant...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: We will just check and see whether what I am saying here applies.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy will not listen and never listens. I do not know the details of the cases the Deputy has mentioned, but against this background I will have them assessed to see whether they comply with the situation that applies here.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: For years a person who needed a medical card always got a medical card. There are guidelines.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: All I am saying is that more people have medical cards than ever before. Some 22,500 of those who had discretionary medical cards have moved on to that full medical card list.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: I invite the Deputy to give me the list of those cases after this and I will have it checked out in order that we can all see-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----how they measure up in terms of these criteria.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, will present his third budget to the House next Tuesday. The Economic Management Council will meet today but the Government, the Cabinet, has not and will not sign off on the details of the budget affecting every Department until some time before next Tuesday. The mandate given to the Government, made up of the two parties of Fine Gael and the...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams and his party contributed to the wrecking of the economy of this country, North and South, for 30 years.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams should understand clearly that this Government has made the decisions with the people that it has made. That is why people abroad recognise the validity of the case that Ireland makes as we make progress for our budget and to exit the programme. Deputy Adams's party is anti-worker, anti-entrepreneur and anti-jobs.