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Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister was promising to cut taxes and so forth.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister was promising to cut taxes when he was in opposition.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: So the Minister supports it.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: So it is not the troika that wants it.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister, Deputy Howlin, voted for it himself.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister voted for the guarantee.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Lots of people were repaid, however. The Government paid out on tens of billions of euro.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister has to renounce his own sins.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It is tragic that it took two parties to make the Labour Party.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It is not agreed. I do not know what the Minister has against the Gregorian calendar. Perhaps he does not like fish on Fridays. We want to make it clear that we would like more time for parliamentary scrutiny, particularly in the context of Leaders' Questions and questions to Ministers. Five weeks have passed since I was able to ask questions of the Minister for Health. I will be here...

Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: We would welcome that.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Well done, Deputy Keating. I am making a point about the very least we should be doing if we are to go down this road. We cannot accept the Friday sittings as long as they are no more than window-dressing.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The substantive issue is the ability of the Opposition to hold the Government to account on Leaders' Questions and to hold Ministers to account on Question Time.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I drove. I was there. The point is that there was nothing I could do.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to revise the criteria for issuing medical cards on the basis of medical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7879/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I have raised this issue of the qualification criteria and the discretionary scheme on a number of occasions. Now, there is a clinical panel in place to assess and adjudicate on discretionary grounds. My concern is, and I believe every Deputy has had the same experience, that people who have been diagnosed with cancer are finding it more difficult to get medical cards on the discretionary...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: There is no confusion on the part of the Minister or myself about the difference between emergency and palliative care medical card applications.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health when he will act to stop the rise in the cost of private health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7880/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister is totally inconsistent when it comes to private health insurance, in what he said two years ago and what he has done since he took office. Families are under huge pressure to pay and retain private health insurance. When the Minister brought forward the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill last November he said that the lower plans would not be rated at the high rating of risk...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: This time two years ago the Minister was apoplectic with rage in this Chamber because the VHI had announced a moderate increase. Since he took office, however, we have had consistent increases, year in year out, month in, month out. The facts do not lie. People are dropping out of health insurance at an alarming rate. The legislation that the Minister passed and brought through this...