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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: On a point of order-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: May I respond-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Children are admitted to adult wards.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: The Minister of State should inform herself about the cuts she is making to children's-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: The Minister of State is not answering the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Finally.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: If the Minister of State took an interest in anything, it would be an action.
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: In December 2011, a briefing note was sent from the office of the then Minister of State with responsibility for the implementation of GP care. It details the sequencing of the introduction of the free GP scheme as originally intended. This was early in the lifetime of the Government and before electoral concerns came to the fore for the parties in government. The memorandum states that...
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: I would be grateful if the Minister------
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Was the Minister a member of the Progressive Democrats?
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Is he going to join Renua Ireland?
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Over two years ago the Government brought forward legislation to take medical cards away from those over 70 years of age. In the spring of that year-----
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: We can all change.
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: In the spring of the year in question cards were taken from over 20,000 elderly people and a couple of months later a further 35,000 were taken. During Leaders' Questions last week the great Deputy James Bannon laughed when it was announced that children were being placed in psychiatric wards.
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: I know too much about the Deputy.
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Deputy James Bannon should wait for the crumbs to fall from somebody else's table. The dramatic cut in the number of medical cards to which I refer was accompanied by hikes in prescription charges, the abolition of the telephone allowance, an increase in DIRT on savings, changes to the household package and the scrapping on the bereavement grant. A sense of security is essential for all...
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: If older people got into difficulty in their homes, previously they could have alerted others to their need for assistance by pressing a panic button. I accept that this is a "smirking" issue for Deputy James Bannon, but it is not for senior citizens throughout the country. The abolition of the allowance removed the security blanket which having an alarm offered to many elderly individuals....
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: They are just as hungry.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Hungry.
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (22 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: He is not as interested in this issue as Deputy Finian McGrath is.