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Social Partnership Agreements. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I welcome the fact that the Government appears to be making some movement on the income tax levy and is offering some response to the position that was put to it by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. However, I would like to know more about what it intends to do here. What will be the cost of the decision to now exempt earnings at or below the national minimum wage from the income levy?...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has stated that the formula he announced this morning means that 95% of those who are over 70 now will qualify for a full medical card. If that is the case, why does he not just do the decent thing and leave them with an automatic entitlement to a medical card?

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This should be done instead of having them worried, as they are, that their income will creep up above the limits of €700 and €1,400, respectively, for those who are single or married. They are worried about what will happen if one partner dies and what income will be left to the other partner. They are worried whether, at some future stage, the Minister will reduce the level of the...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for offering to make the income information available. The income distribution on which this decision is based should be published today. The formula announced today by the Taoiseach has been designed more to solve his political problem than to settle the worries of pensioners who are concerned about losing their medical cards. While it may satisfy the more gullible...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is the week of publication of the social welfare Bill. Arising from that, I ask whether it remains the Government's intention that the provision for repealing section 1 of the Health Act 2001, which gives an automatic right to a medical card to people over the age of 70, will be included in the social welfare Bill or if separate legislation will be brought. When does the Government...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I plan to periodically remind the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach about the Dublin South by-election. In regard to the social welfare Bill, the Tánaiste is now providing new information to the House. My understanding from what she told us last week was that the removal of the medical card from pensioners would be in the Bill. She now tells us the Bill will be published in the first week of...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the Government not made a decision on this?

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If it is not going to be in the social welfare Bill, by what legislative means is the repeal going to be brought before the House? Clearly it has to be brought before the House reasonably quickly if the Government intends to proceed with it on 1 January.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Has agreement been reached between the two Ministers concerned as to who will move this historic matter?

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Which Minister will it be? The Tánaiste said "Yes", so there is agreement. Which Minister will take the medical card off the pensioners?

Written Answers — Combat Poverty Agency: Combat Poverty Agency (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the expected saving to the Exchequer from the announcement in Budget 2009 in relation to the Combat Poverty Agency. [35626/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the expected saving to the Exchequer from each of the various measures announced in Budget 2009 in respect of reducing entitlement to a jobseekers payment. [35627/08]

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Every Member of the House will have the opportunity of showing where he or she stands on the education cuts and increases in class sizes when the Labour Party tables a Private Members' motion on the issue next Tuesday. I want to pursue with the Tánaiste some of the matters I raised yesterday with the Taoiseach in regard to medical cards for the over 70s. I want her to answer two questions...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Frankly, if the Tánaiste is having problems now in getting her backbenchers to vote for the repeal of the 2001 Act, let us see how they face up to a legislative measure that takes the medical card off the people who currently have a legal entitlement to it.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Given that people who are over 70 continue to have a legal right to hold medical cards and given the made-up nature of the figures on which yesterday's announcement was based, cannot the Government make a decision before the pensioners assemble on Molesworth Street later this morning to do the decent thing and leave them with their medical cards?

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste did not answer the first two questions I asked her, that is whether it is the position that the Minister can change the income limits at the stroke of a pen after 1 January, when these measures will be enacted. Will the Government index-link the new income limits? I would like an answer to those questions and I understand other Members seek answers to those questions before...

Active Citizenship. (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the recommendations of the task force on active citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19441/08]

Active Citizenship. (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the progress to date in implementing the recommendations of the task force on active citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24712/08]

Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There are three matters I wish to raise with the Tánaiste on the Order of Business. First, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, announced some time ago that he would introduce legislation to put a cap on spending by candidates in the local elections. I asked the Taoiseach about this two weeks or so ago, but he did not appear to know a great deal...

Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On the matter of capping spending limits for local elections, do I understand from the Tánaiste's reply the Government has not yet made a decision to bring forward legislation on that? If it has not been brought to Government, has a memorandum on the issue been brought to Government?