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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, with regard to over-70 year old medical card holders whose entitlement will continue to be valid after 1 January 2009 because their income is under the new thresholds, such persons will be expected to undergo a means test once their card expires; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39263/08]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy in relation to married couples in which one spouse is aged over 70 years and the other aged under 70 years; if the spouse under 70 years is subject to a means test; the number of people in receipt of a medical card on this basis over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39323/08]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number, in relation to the revised arrangements for the over-70s medical card, of spouses her Department anticipate will be eligible for a medical card on the basis that their partner is over 70 years of age and they satisfy the means test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39324/08]

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: That is not the argument, and the Taoiseach knows it. He is being disingenuous.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: Is the Taoiseach telling this House that the HIQA report is untrue? Is he telling this country that HIQA is wrong in its assertion that 52 lives can be saved by the use of this vaccine?

Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: Following this morning's interaction with the Taoiseach, our party leader, Deputy Kenny, was told he was wrong.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: I have no intention of doing so.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: When will the health information Bill be published? Will the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, be given powers, with teeth, to enforce that legislation? Or is it the case — because it says in a written reply that it is not possible to indicate at this stage — that the Taoiseach, who chose this morning to ignore HIQA's recommendation and figures, will not proceed with the...

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: So HIQA is wrong again.

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: True.

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: Yes he does. The Minister of State does not.

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: I have heard tonight the usual Fianna Fáil tactic from the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, of attacking the messenger instead of dealing with the issue and his extraordinary statement that this is not a childhood issue when this is a vaccination that will allow children to lead in adulthood a life free of cervical cancer.

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: I thank the people who have contributed to this debate. This is a highly emotive issue and rightly so. We are at a moral crossroads when we as a nation put fiscal rectitude and budgetary considerations ahead of the lives of our children and ahead of the lives of a future generation. There are two wonders here: the wonder that we have a vaccine against cancer which is the only one I know...

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: How clever of the Minister of State. She wants to go to the far side of Europe to find another country. They have it 50 miles up the road in Newry——

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: The Taoiseach was wrong when he said that 3,680 pre-cancers cannot be averted. He was wrong when he said that 111 cancers cannot be avoided. It is particularly the Taoiseach who is wrong when he replied to Deputy Kenny this morning that 51 deaths would not be averted. In fact, there will be 52 deaths, according to HIQA, his own Health Information and Quality Authority. A Member said here...

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: What about the legal risk of doing nothing? The Government sought advice from HIQA and the National Immunisation Advisory Committee, which approved the vaccine as cost-effective and worthwhile to implement. The option of doing nothing is not tenable. The greatest negligence occurs when one knows the danger and fails to provide protection against it, for example, with regard to the Army...

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: The Government has no excuse if it ends up before a court in the future and the judge asks why, knowing the clear danger existed, this protection was not afforded to our children. Tonight is a night for walking the walk. So many times before, Government Deputies have stood up and talked the talk and then walked up those aisles and voted against the very thing they spoke for. Let not tonight...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reinstate the home tuition grant in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40141/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reinstate the home tuition grant for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40138/08]

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: Yesterday the Government decided not to reverse the decision on cervical cancer vaccination to save the lives of women in the future. This morning Professor Harald zur Hausen, who won the Nobel prize for this work, made it very clear——