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Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (9 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ascertain from the Health Service Executive the reason that they have not engaged with the Health Information and Quality Authority in organising a clinical and quality audit process for private ambulance organisations seeking to work in support of the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14902/09]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (9 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ascertain from the Health Service Executive the range of issues that the head of the national ambulance service and those accompanying them discussed with private medical insurers particularly issues including the utilisation of private ambulance companies and to inform them of the HSE engagement with the clinical indemnity...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: Hit the elderly again.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: Hear, hear.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: It is extremely difficult to listen in silence to what the Minister is saying.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: The easy option.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: The Minister's attitude is typically dismissive.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: Or three months.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: The bankers could be included in that category.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: There were no pensioners among them.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: They are afraid to use them.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: The Government will not be able to do that. It will not be there.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: Hit the vulnerable - the old and the needy.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: There will not be much from that.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: The Minister has not been at people's doors lately.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: The Minister did not stay long.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: I am pleased to have an opportunity to support the Labour Party motion before the House. When one considers the senselessness and severity of what the Minister has done in the case of the Christmas bonus it suggests that the Government does not realise the implication of the measure. The Minister, Deputy Hanafin, stated on 27 October 2008: Even with the challenging budgetary situation, the...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: Fair enough. The Minister is putting it in context now. She is admitting that the elderly and those in need will pay for her mistakes.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: If it was a priority for the Government last October, why is it a necessity to impose cuts on those vulnerable people?

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)

Ulick Burke: In 1955 a predecessor of the Minister, the late Minister, Mr. Moran, was the first to introduce a double payment at Christmas time, albeit for a selective group. If the Minister can tell social welfare recipients, especially old age pensioners, that times are worse now than in 1955 then the Government has failed to tell the public how deep is the recession. The Minister for Finance has made...

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