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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government negotiated this scheme.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Senator's Government negotiated the terms of the scheme.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Government negotiated it. The Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrat Government negotiated it.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Government negotiated it.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: It is galling to listen to Senator O'Malley, when she negotiated the deal in Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats negotiated this deal and used the taxpayers' money to do it. Why does Senator O'Malley not admit it?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: It is very expensive to re-join the VHI if one has left it for a number of years.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: What about the people on trolleys?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: Yes.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: On a point of information, yesterday the Leader of the House said he would try to make arrangements for the Minister for Finance to take a question and answer session on this motion in the Seanad today, which this side of the House considers to be very important. The Leader said he would report back to the House on that and it was on that basis we agreed to the Order of Business yesterday....

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: We have had a cosy cartel consisting of the Government, property developers and the banks in recent years which has led to a completely overheated property market. Many young couples and families are paying the price for this in negative equity. I have a concern with today's motion that the public interest is not protected strongly enough in the detail of the legislation. I would like the...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: On a point of order, may I interrupt the Minister of State? We asked that the Seanad be adjourned while the questioning is going on in the Dáil. The Leader is considering this.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: We want to hear the questions and answers as we are not having that here. The Leader is considering that.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: I did not mean any discourtesy to the Minister of State.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: I have just come from a meeting that was held in a church that was attended by hundreds of elderly people. They were not there for prayer or mass, they were there to defend their entitlement to a medical card, their basic right to universality, a right the nation gave them seven years ago but that has been taken away from them. It was one of the most uplifting meetings I have attended, in...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: Anybody who was at the meeting this morning would be appalled at the situation in which elderly people find themselves, and the fact that they have to congregate outside the gates of Leinster House tomorrow to get their point across to a blunt Government that is not listening and is not responding to what the Irish people want.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: It is not just the elderly that will be affected, but their families and young people also. The attack on universality is being done without any debate or discussion. It was not part of the election manifesto. Universal health cover for the over 70s was introduced in 2002 to buy an election but it was not part of the election manifesto last year. It was introduced without any discussion...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: It is a distraction.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: It was a Government decision.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Frances Fitzgerald: It is also an extraordinary diversion.