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Budget Statement 2009 (14 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is never next year.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive returned unspent funds to the Exchequer at the end of 2007; if so, the amount involved; the reason it was not spent in the health services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34520/08]

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I would like to share time with Deputies Sherlock and Ciarán Lynch.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: My office, like the offices of all my colleagues in this House, has been inundated today with calls from people concerned about the impact of this budget on the over 70s. Such people previously qualified for a medical card automatically, without a means test, but they are now subject to such a test. As this day has gone on, we have learned more and more about the nasty aspects of this...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: My party leader raised a point this morning about people who gave up their voluntary health insurance because they felt they did not need it following the introduction of free medical cards. Those people are now trying to go back into an insurance system in order to cover health costs. The point made this morning was that if people had an existing condition, then they would not be covered...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Now the Government is setting it back.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I see little evidence of protecting the vulnerable.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Not at all.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: People with less than €300 will lose their medical cards.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Tánaiste should stop digging.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001 is an Act of Parliament. The Minister for Health and Children said this Act will be amended by way of the social welfare Bill. Has this been put to and agreed by the Cabinet? Will the Tánaiste tell the Minister for Health and Children to instruct the Health Service Executive to take down the illegal information on medical cards from its website?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is still a democracy and the legislation has not been amended.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: The website claims the medical card scheme will be changed on 1 January but that has not been passed by legislation. We live in a democracy. Will the Health Service Executive take the illegal information off its website?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Has it been agreed by Cabinet to amend the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: That means there is no agreement that the medical card system will be amended.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: It has been agreed to amend the Act.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Public representatives better deal with it as well.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister of State should be allowed to conclude.

Medical Cards. (16 Oct 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I welcome the opportunity to raise this issue which has pretty much occupied the minds of everybody in this country for the past 24 hours. With all due respect to the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, I am disappointed that the Minister for Health and Children is not in the House to respond to this issue. We have seen panic measures throughout the country concerning the Government's...