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Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (15 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The employment of contractual workers is a day-to-day operational matter for FÁS.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: It is proposed to take No. 10, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Socialist Republic of Vietnam) Order 2008, back from committee; No. 11, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Exchange of Information relating to tax matters and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Isle of Man) Order 2008, back from committee; No....

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: I hope I will be afforded the same latitude as others in the House, given that this matter is out of order.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: I wish to clarify the matter. This is a Government decision.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: I ask for the indulgence of the House, given that we need clarity on this issue. Of the savings of €100 million, €86 million is for GPs and €30 million is for pharmacists.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: There are 355,000 people over 70 years of age in the country, of which 215,000 have a medical card, having gone through the process of a means test. Those people will continue to have a medical card.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: There are 140,000 people who have a medical card. If Deputy Bannon knows more than I do, he should tell the people of his constituency that when he goes home on Saturday. Let me address the House, please. There are 140,000 who have a medical card without a means test and these are the people to which we refer.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The starting point at which there is a means test per person over 66 years of age is €201.50. That is the starting point.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: That is based on net income. As public representatives, all Deputies are acutely aware that ongoing expenses for rent, mortgage, medical costs and so on are taken into consideration prior to making a decision on a means test. All social welfare pension recipients——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: It is important, as legislators, that we give the facts because Deputies are adding to the confusion in this House and I will not stand for that.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: All social welfare recipients——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: Pensioners will have an entitlement to their medical card——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: I will clarify the matter once again. All those who have a means-tested medical card will continue to have that entitlement.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: A person whose sole income derives from a social welfare pension——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: ——will continue to be entitled to a medical card.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The 140,000 people who are not in that category will be subject to a simplified means test. The HSE will provide a simplified form.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The starting point for that means test will be €201.50. All other expenses will be taken into consideration.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: As Members of the Oireachtas, we are acutely aware of these issues, as we all fill in forms for our constituents.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The first €20,000 of cash savings are exempt.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Mary Coughlan: To be fair to Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, she raised this issue to get some clarity. She mentioned that provision has been made on the basis of automatic entitlement when a person who is over the age of 70, but whose spouse is not yet 70, has applied for a medical card.