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- Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister only published the Bill on Monday and is rushing it again.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Given that we are in the last number of weeks of the session, can the Minister indicate to the Dáil when we can expect a raft of legislation in terms of the health information Bill and the universal health insurance legislation for the establishment of a universal health insurance fund as provided for in the programme for Government? Will the Minister indicate whether the Government is...
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: What about the VHI?
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency Expenditure (11 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis upon which it was decided where to spend the public funding on promoting the Irish Presidency and if moneys were spent on any newspaper supplements or advertisements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33979/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency Expenditure (11 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: 65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if moneys were spent on promoting or outlining achievements during Ireland's EU Presidency after the Presidency was concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33980/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Advertising Campaigns (11 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: 66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will list the national and local newspapers that his Department would have placed articles in on a commercial basis in the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33981/13]
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Over recent months, thousands of people have received letters from the HSE initiating reviews of their medical card entitlements and, in many instances, removing their medical cards. This has caused huge anxiety, grief and concern throughout the country. Many of these people are elderly and in receipt of medical cards. Nowhere is this more cruelly felt than in the persistent underhand...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The level of outrage and anger articulated in that blog is something he should read because the phrase "not such a bad diagnosis at all" was adding insult to injury and is something that people with or who have come through cancer cannot comprehend. The person talks about the financial hellhole that the condition entailed involving numerous medications and visits to doctors. Many survivors...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is not a case; it is a policy change regarding cancer.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Reilly, stated cancer can range from a desperate diagnosis to not such a bad diagnosis. He confirmed it is now Government policy not to issue medical cards to cancer patients unless they are terminally ill. This is the point I made. It is this statement which has caused such outrage and anger. I read extracts from the blog I referred to yesterday. The person who...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I accept the treatment is much better.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am speaking about discretionary medical cards.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is because of unemployment.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach re-examine it?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: It has changed.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am not speaking about a case.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am speaking about the policy on cancer patients and medical cards.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the policy regarding cancer patients and discretionary medical cards.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister made a statement last week-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: All I want is an answer to the question I asked.