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- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (4 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will index-link medical card income guidelines to increases in the cost of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37892/08]
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (4 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people receiving subvention for nursing home care per county; the number of people receiving enhanced subvention per county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37896/08]
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: As I am given to understand there are 280,000 people over the age of 60 who subscribe to the VHI and that risk equalisation fell in the courts, will the Minister outline what plans the Government has to address this issue legally to ensure community rating remains and that these people will not face hikes in their premiums?
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: When will that be?
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: I wish to share time with Deputies Enright and Clune.
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: On 5 August the Minister, Deputy Harney, announced that she had asked the HSE to prepare and submit a plan for the introduction of the HPV vaccination programme for 12 year old girls to commence in September 2009. She stated that she had considered all the advice available to her of the potential public health benefits of the HPV vaccination in the prevention of cervical cancer and the wider...
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: However, given that the report on the deaths in the north east, which we had been promised would be published in July and was then held over until September, was released on the same day, no such excuse can be used. I am given to understand that report was available more than a month ago and was in the hands of several people but held back. I believe this represents cynical manipulation of...
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: Precisely. Why have we not touched the bonuses in the HSE? Why have we not addressed the issue the Minister, herself, has raised and I have raised numerous times with her, of redundancies in the HSE? Why has the issue of outside consultancies not been looked at?
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: I have only been in this House for a year and a half. Every time we have a problem the answer is to establish another committee, investigation, task force or commission, with money flying out the door. I remind Members of the Government's approach to money in the not so distant past when one Minister said of the â¬50 million spent on electronic voting machines: "What about â¬50 million in...
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: As I asked some questions during my original contribution, I will be brief. This is a political decision that only the Minister can reverse. A good manager or leader decides where savings can be made. This is a direct judgment on where the Minister's values lie. Does she make savings in administration, bonuses for the bosses, bureaucracy and through redundancies or does she do so at the...
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: With respect, there is no other cancerââ
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: May I raise a point of information?
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: There is no other cancer that we know ofââ
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: ââfor which there is a vaccine and that can be prevented. That is the scandal of the decision made by the Minister.
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: The Minister is the final arbiter now. According to the Competition Authority, she is the final arbiter on all prices.
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: The Minister is the final arbiter.
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: However, there is no vaccine.
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: But not for cancer.
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: I do not believe she said that.
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
James Reilly: That is not the choice.