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

James Reilly: That cannot be done in advance. The calculations are made at the end of the year on the basis of what has happened, as opposed to what might happen.

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

James Reilly: I shall finish with this: The Commission considers that the approach above is coherent and in line with the state of the art. Considering the intrinsic variability present in such calculations the Commission accepts the proposal of the Irish authorities to consider that VHI is over compensated if its return on equity is above 12%. That is a direct quote. Is Deputy Kelleher suggesting for a...

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

James Reilly: I did not interrupt the Deputy.

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

James Reilly: I have sat here and listened for the past 20 minutes to a Deputy who has gone around in circles. This came from an individual who was a Minister of State in a Government that destroyed this country and caused 250,000 people to lose their jobs, which might have something to do with the fact that 250,000 people have left the insurance market and that 250,000 more have medical cards.

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

James Reilly: We are on the Bill.

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

James Reilly: To hear from somebody who was in a position in government to do something about this for the past 14 years-----

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

James Reilly: -----starting to lecture us on what we should do now when we have made more progress in two years in the health service generally and in this area than it made in its entire 14 years in government, as it wrecked the country, is a little bit much to swallow.

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

James Reilly: We shall revisit this when it reaches 10%. How about that? At the moment, what we are talking about here is putting in place a clause that will not allow it to exceed 12%. I look forward to the day when it reaches 10%, let alone exceeds it. The risk equalisation has increased from 73% to 78% the effectiveness of the compensation for people over the age of 70 and under the age of 80 and...

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

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 7H of Principal Act 6.Section 7H(ii) of the Principal Act is amended by inserting "after deducting from the net premium the deduction to which such insured person is entitled, for the year of assessment concerned, by virtue of section 470 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1977" after "each...

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

James Reilly: This would have come before us in any event.

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

James Reilly: Absolutely. Why not? It is about informing people. The more information one has the more empowered one is---

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

James Reilly: As I say, this is to help people to know precisely what their insurance is costing. It is a move we would make in any event. Up until now many people did not know precisely what their insurance was costing, they just knew what they had to pay. They did not realise the true cost of what the taxpayer was subsidising. For the information of the Deputy, two years ago it cost the taxpayer...

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

James Reilly: I will forgive the Deputy the dramatics of his coach and four through UHI. We are on target to bringing in universal health insurance. We are putting the building blocks in place. It is not part of this Bill but obviously this Bill relates to it. I stand over what I have said. I propose that the amendment be accepted.

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

James Reilly: Was this building built in 1922? It is called the LH2000 annex. Is there a hint there? At the risk of being called combative-----

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

James Reilly: I do not agree with the amendment. Section 11 of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013 amends section 125A of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 in respect of the revised rates of stamp duty that will apply to health insurance contracts entered into or renewed after 1 March 2014. The current legislation provides for the payment of the stamp duty levy by authorised insurers on a...

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

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for that. However, the reality is that it is a matter for the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance has met the insurance representatives and issued them guidance notes. The insurers were satisfied with them following that meeting.

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

James Reilly: I am sorry. That is what my Minister tells me and I will take his word for it. I cannot accept the amendment.

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

James Reilly: The Deputy is quite correct. I certainly do not want to see that. Next year will be very focused on renegotiating contracts with private hospitals and consultants in respect of the payments they receive, how they bill, the procedures they charge for and how they are paid. We shall have an opportunity to reduce greatly the cost of private health care in this country, which should result in...

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

James Reilly: As the author of the greatest disaster the country has had, Deputy Billy Kelleher, would be best out of that.

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

James Reilly: I inform the committee that Mr. Dermot Ryan has today been promoted to assistant Secretary General in the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.