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Official Engagements. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his meeting in Dublin on 22 September 2008 with the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. [31951/08]

Official Engagements. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his intervention at the United Nations in New York on 25 September 2008. [32382/08]

Official Engagements. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his official visit to China. [37027/08]

Official Engagements. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation in the Europe-Asia summit in China. [37028/08]

Official Engagements. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: As the Taoiseach said, if the Czech President wants to convene a meeting of people who share his right-wing, Eurosceptic views, that is a matter for him. The issue, however, is whether he should use the occasion of an official state visit to this country to do so. I appreciate the courtesy the Taoiseach is displaying to the Czech President, which does not appear to be reciprocated. Does...

Official Engagements. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am responding to the reply the Taoiseach gave to Deputy Kenny.

Official Engagements. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach gave a reply and I am entitled to ask a supplementary question. What was achieved by the Taoiseach's visit to China, which was truncated due to the domestic difficulties he was facing at home in trying to keep the Government together in the aftermath of the budget? Did he raise with the Chinese authorities any of the human rights questions that are of concern here, such as the...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party does not agree to the Government's proposal to guillotine the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 at 10 p.m. The effect of this guillotine would leave only two speaking slots available for the Labour Party, which has some 20 Members, many of whom wish to contribute to the debate. The Bill will make major changes to some social welfare provisions. Unemployed...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Tenants dependent on rent supplements will effectively receive no increase in their social welfare payment. Fewer unemployed people will qualify for jobseeker's benefit because of the new restrictions on entitlements.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Fewer people with disabilities, injuries or illnesses will qualify for payments. For these reasons the Labour Party seeks a longer period in which to debate the Bill. It is clear the Government wishes to rush the Bill through and bury the changes at 10 p.m. It is not acceptable to the Labour Party and we oppose the proposal.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When will the Government publish the legislation which will take the medical card off old age pensioners? After this week, there are 15 sittings days left in this session to complete the Social Welfare Bill, in addition to the Finance Bill and the nursing homes Bill. The Bill which will take the medical card from pensioners will require considerable debate in the House, so I would like to...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What about the medical cards?

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will publish the Public Transport Regulation Bill; the proposed heads of this Bill; if the Bill will establish a national transport regulator for the areas not covered by the Dublin Transport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39844/08]

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I asked the Taoiseach yesterday about the Bill providing for the removal of the medical card from pensioners, and I was puzzled by the reply he gave me. He said: "That matter has not yet come before the Government, but it will before Christmas". I ask the Tánaiste if the Government——

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What does it mean? Does it mean the Government has not in fact approved——

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——or made a decision to bring in a Bill which would remove the medical card from pensioners? Have the heads of a Bill been approved? When is it intended to introduce the Bill to the House? Will the Tánaiste give an assurance to the House that no attempt will be made by the Government to bring in the Bill in the late hours——

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——of the final days before Christmas and have it rushed through and guillotined in the hope that people will not take sufficient notice?

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will she confirm to the House that until such legislation is passed and enacted, all over 70s have a legal entitlement to hold a medical card and the HSE does not have any legal power to take the medical card from them or commence any process of means testing which would anticipate the passage of the legislation? My other question concerns legislation that was promised by the Minister for the...

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I see no place——

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The problem originated with a development which caused a bog to move and a large amount of water to move into the space left. Thus, we are dealing with both a physical lacuna and a legislative lacuna.