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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (29 May 2014)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (29 May 2014)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (29 May 2014)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: The framework agreement goes beyond all of those issues. That is why I am trying to help the Deputy.

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: The framework agreement will deal with all of those issues.

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: As can I.

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: It is an agreement.

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: I wonder if the Deputy might allow me to make a brief interruption in order that I might point out that in my initial contribution I indicated that I have concluded with the IMO a framework agreement to provide for a process of engagement with it on the entire contractual issue. I am merely trying to be of assistance to the Deputy and I am not trying to challenge him. The framework...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: The Deputy is talking my language. I agree with him.

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: A framework agreement being published today addresses the issue. There is agreement with the IMO on the process. We hope to resolve that matter today.

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: That is what we are doing.

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Order for Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Alex White: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." It is my pleasure to introduce the Bill, which will provide for a general practitioner, GP, service to be made available without fees to all children aged five years and younger. The key features of the Bill are the provision of an entitlement for all children aged five years and younger to a GP service without fees; the removal of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (28 May 2014)

Alex White: The interest rate, to which the Deputy refers, is only relevant to the supplementary assessment process for medical cards for persons aged 70 years and over, where means testing is on a gross income basis. For the purposes of assessment for this medical card, savings or similar investments of €36,000 for a single person or €72,000 for a couple are disregarded. For amounts in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (28 May 2014)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (28 May 2014)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 May 2014)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (28 May 2014)

Alex White: Under the Health Act, 1970, eligibility for a medical card is founded primarily on the undue financial hardship test and every application must be assessed on that basis. Under the legislation, determination of an individual's eligibility for a medical card is the responsibility of the HSE. The 1970 Health Act obliges the HSE to assess whether a person is unable, without undue hardship, to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (28 May 2014)

Alex White: I am aware that HSE has a very structured protocol in place for the review process and makes every effort to ensure on-going engagement with clients during this process. A person (and their dependants, if it applies), the subject of a medical card/GP visit card eligibility review assessment, will continue to have their eligibility extended pending the outcome of a review assessment, provided...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (28 May 2014)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...