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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: I spoke to the section.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: To be of assistance to Deputy Ó Caoláin, is it correct the hospital bed utilisation charge is only for overnight stays?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: It does not cover day case procedures. This comes back to the point I made on health status. We should, through legislation, encourage insurers in so far as it is possible to improve the health status of patients and not use this measurement with regard to hospital bed utilisation. The difficulty I have with the response given by the Minister is this time last year I proposed a sunset...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: It is positive that the cost of day case procedures will be reduced. Are there any plans to allow the insurers negotiate with the public hospitals, even the hospital groups? This would be the intention down the road, particularly where hospital groups may have spare capacity for day procedures and could make them available at a discounted price to the insurers to ensure the facilities are...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: It is welcome that the system is being streamlined.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: In the context of his earlier contribution, has the Minister re-examined the issue of lifetime community rating? We discussed this issue during a debate on a Bill this time last year which is now on the Statute Book and at that time the Minister undertook to investigate it. Will he comment on it? There is merit in Deputy Kelleher's amendments. By reducing the threshold from 12% to 10%,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: On a point of information, I am not talking about HIA staff members calling to every crossroads in Ireland.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: I am suggesting they work with active age groups around the country, including Age Action Ireland, to get the message across that the system in place, including the telephone line, can be used to get people to engage actively. That is not happening. While I accept that the figures mentioned are an indictment of the insurance industry, they are also a damning indictment of the role of the...

Other Questions: Energy Prices (4 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: Can this not continue? It is enjoyable.

Other Questions: Post Office Network (4 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: 7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps being taken to support the maintenance of the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51555/13]

Other Questions: Post Office Network (4 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: Post office network income is based on each transaction it processes on behalf of a client or customer. As the Minister is aware, the Minister for Social Protection intends to transfer social welfare payments to electronic format in 2014. If An Post fails to get that contract, it will have a devastating impact on its network.

Other Questions: Post Office Network (4 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for his response. As he is aware, all agencies right across the Government are pushing for online services, the best example of which is the medical card system, which has been centralised in Finglas. The difficulty is that while the Government attempts to centralise everything and put everything online, the penny then drops. The Minister should clarify whether he is...

Other Questions: Post Office Network (4 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: I accept that there are difficulties in respect of tendering, but where there is a will there is a way. With regard to SUSI, instead of centralising the scanning of documents in a building in Cork - where those involved decided to scan one side of the page only and forgot to scan the other side, leading to chaos last year - would it not have made far more sense to have asked people to scan...

Other Questions: Post Office Network (4 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: Sadly, I do.

Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle might not be wanted in some parts but we would be happy to have him in my constituency come the next general election. There is nothing worse than having a child in hospital for Christmas, particularly if it may be his or her last Christmas. Some 12 months ago I, with the support of both the Jack and Jill Children's Foundation and LauraLynn House, put a proposal...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: I rise to speak to amendment No. 16. The Minister on Committee Stage argued that the significant increase we have seen in health insurance has not led to a significant fall in people covered by health insurance. We know that approximately 7.5% of the people insured have now left the system, which is not a small number of people in any respect. Many thousands of people within the health...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: Not since the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern spoke about smoke and daggers have we seen a sleight of hand such as that used by the Minister on budget night in respect of this health insurance issue. I cannot understand how anyone can figure out that 43% is a majority, and it really worries me to think that we have a Minister for Finance who believes that 43% is a majority. When I did maths...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: 12. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to revise the planning regulations covering wind turbines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51807/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (5 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: 21. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to revise the planning legislation on the taking in charge of housing developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51808/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Applications (5 Dec 2013)

Denis Naughten: 108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a decision will be made on a work permit in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52252/13]