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Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We can bring all of this to finality very easily if the Government——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——does what it will be eventually forced to do which is to back off this proposal. I invite the Tánaiste to clarify the matter. The Minister for Finance said this morning that the proposal is intended to proceed regardless. The Government will take the medical card off pensioners and not only take the medical card off them but halve the income limits for the means test that will be...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have also been standing here a long time trying to make this point. It is a point of order. The issue the Labour Party has raised has to do with the income limits for the medical card means test. In addition to taking the medical card from pensioners——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to talk. Will the Ceann Comhairle please hear me out? We raised the issue of the income limits for the means test. In reply, the Tánaiste has told the House the income limits are directly related to the medical card scheme for the free medical card for the over 70s. That is not the case.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have here the extract——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Ceann Comhairle is not hearing me.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have here the extract from the budget speech by former Minister for Finance, Mr. Charlie McCreevy, in 1999, two years before the free medical cards came in, in which he said the income guidelines used to establish medical card eligibility for persons aged 70 and over would be doubled over the next three years, beginning with an increase of one third in the coming year. That is being...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Not only is the Government removing the medical card, it will also make it more difficult for them to get a medical card.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On promised legislation, the Tánaiste informed the House earlier that the legislative measure to remove medical cards from old age pensioners will be contained in the social welfare Bill. When will the Bill be published? I encourage all pensioners to ask their Deputy how he or she will vote on the measure when it comes before the Dáil. It is clear that the removal——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——of the medical card from pensioners will be done by legislation passed in this House.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That legislation will have to be voted on by every Member. Pensioners and their families should get an assurance from their Deputy that he or she will not vote——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——for the removal of the medical card from pensioners. When will the Government move the writ for the Dublin South by-election?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is very unfair.

Freedom of Information. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the number of requests received by his Department under the Freedom of Information Act 1997 in the first eight months of 2008; if he will provide comparable figures for the same period in respect of each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29621/08]

Freedom of Information. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about a particular decision made by the Information Commissioner on 10 October last dealing with a Cabinet document relating to the Cabinet's consideration of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions. It decided the document should be released under the Freedom of Information Act and that European access to environmental information regulations superseded our domestic...

Freedom of Information. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The decision by the Information Commissioner that a Cabinet document should be released is highly significant. On what basis will the Government appeal the decision?

Social Partnership Agreements. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when he next plans to meet with the social partners. [29614/08]

Social Partnership Agreements. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the future of social partnership. [29615/08]