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Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I might make another suggestion. What the Tánaiste could do——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I will make this point and then I will sit down.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I am speaking for all those people over 70 who were granted medical cards that are now being taken away.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: This is my last point.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I make this point. The Government could change the regulations whereby pharmacies would be able to prescribe generic drugs instead of branded drugs and save €150 million and forget this callous proposal.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste has misled the Dáil.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I will not agree to this until I get clarification from the Tánaiste on the Government's decision on medical cards for over 70s. The Tánaiste said that she wished to clarify Deputy O'Sullivan's comments on means testing and the categories of people who were to have their cards withdrawn. Seventy-four Members of the Government parties have just voted to take away these medical cards by...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I will remind them of that continuously.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I accept the Tánaiste is here to give clarification on this matter. I want her to withdraw her statement that the automatic entitlement has ended. It has not. She said it was a Government decision to introduce it and that the automatic entitlement is gone, but it is not gone. I want her to clarify that and withdraw her comment to that effect. I want to ask a question about EC Regulation...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: On a point of order. Under the Standing Orders of the House the Tánaiste is expected to give the House valid information. She said five minutes ago——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: ——that the automatic entitlement is no longer there. It is there.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste has not clarified it and she has misled the Dáil.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: She has added further fears to the older people.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle moved very fast there, like a good Kerry forward.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste, speaking on behalf of the Government this morning, only added to the confusion about medical cards.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: She did not answer the question about European citizens. We know that the British Government pays €450 million, as outlined to Deputy Ring, for their citizens living here who have Irish medical cards but the Tánaiste did not refer to the Europeans. The former Minister for Finance, Mr. Charlie McCreevy, introduced this scheme and said that he was doing so to repay the people who built...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is important to note that Deputies Finian McGrath and Jackie Healy-Rae were among the 73 Deputies who voted "Yes" in the last vote, as a precursor to taking away medical cards from elderly people. That should not be forgotten in their constituencies. I suggest, in view of this appalling decision by the Government, that we adjust our business today so that the Minister for Health and...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Minister for Health and Children, who has been blamed by the Minister for Finance and most other Fianna Fáil Deputies in the corridors of this House——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: They have decided to blame the Minister, Deputy Mary Harney, for this when clearly it is another part of the Lenihan levy and a consequence of a Government that does not know what it is at.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I suggest, with the Tánaiste's agreement, that we adjust the Order of Business for today and give the Minister for Health and Children half an hour or more to clear up any confusion that exists on the Government's intention to go ahead with this decision.