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- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a consultant specialist in diabetes will be able to see a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34524/08]
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (14 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the specific plans she has to deal with the need for approximately 2,000 citizens who are amputees and who must pay for their own prostheses costing between â¬5,000 and â¬10,000, in view of the fact that they are neither covered by medical card or private health insurance, and that such prosthesis are provided free of charge in...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (14 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications received under the nursing home repayment scheme; the number of applicants issued offers to date; the number which have appeals made by the scheme; the number of appeals decided; the number of appeals which have received an increased offer; the number of appeals officers employed by the scheme; the number of...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (14 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of administering the nursing home repayments scheme; when the nursing home repayment scheme will complete its work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34570/08]
- Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (14 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of claims lodged with the State Claims Agency for compensation as a result of patients acquiring hospital infections; the number of cases settled to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34571/08]
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role the National Treatment Purchase Fund will have in identifying and recommending nursing homes under the nursing home support scheme; when it will begin this role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34573/08]
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way the National Treatment Purchase Fund will negotiate the cost of private beds on behalf of the Health Service Executive in the absence of the Health Information and Quality Authority Standards for Residential Care Settings for Older People; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34574/08]
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (14 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Question 337: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way his Department will provide national school places in Donabate, County Dublin for 27 boys in September 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34526/08]
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: It will make a lot of sense to those whose medical cards will be cut. Health cuts hurt the old, the sick and the disabled. Is that right? Where did we hear it before?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: VHI covers â¬25ââ
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Do that, by all means.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: That was without means testing. Since that time, for seven yearsââ
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: For seven years people have had these cards. Now, the Government takes them away from pensioners and wants to tax them.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: By the Government.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Well done. This must be one of the worst budgets in living memory. Not only has the Minister, Deputy Lenihan, left the legacy of the Lenihan levy, but he will be long remembered as the man who, along with the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, who took the medical card off sick, old, frail and terminally ill pensioners. The stark fact is that 139,000 people qualified for...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: Yesterday, at a press conference, the Minister for Health and Children mentioned that people over the age of 70 visit the doctor four times a year, on average. I cannot find any evidence to support this proposition. I do not know how the Minister, Deputy Harney, gets her figures. My figures indicate that people over the age of 70 tend to visit the doctor between ten and 12 times a year....
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: I welcome the Tánaiste to the debate, even if she is late.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: People will have to pay the 2% health levy, the 1% Lenihan levy, doctors' fees and medicine expenses of â¬100 a month, or â¬1,200 a year. They will have to pay â¬100 each time they go to an accident and emergency department. They have lost their VHI benefits. The nursing home tax break has been reduced from â¬20,000 to â¬10,000. They have to pay for chiropody, occupational therapy...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: The facts speak for themselves. We are bailing out the banks, but the Government is bailing on the elderly and their families.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
James Reilly: No, but the Government is confused. This is symptomatic of it.