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Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I accept the Tánaiste is here to give clarification on this matter. I want her to withdraw her statement that the automatic entitlement has ended. It has not. She said it was a Government decision to introduce it and that the automatic entitlement is gone, but it is not gone. I want her to clarify that and withdraw her comment to that effect. I want to ask a question about EC Regulation...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: On a point of order. Under the Standing Orders of the House the Tánaiste is expected to give the House valid information. She said five minutes ago——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: ——that the automatic entitlement is no longer there. It is there.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste has not clarified it and she has misled the Dáil.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: She has added further fears to the older people.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Ceann Comhairle moved very fast there, like a good Kerry forward.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste, speaking on behalf of the Government this morning, only added to the confusion about medical cards.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: She did not answer the question about European citizens. We know that the British Government pays €450 million, as outlined to Deputy Ring, for their citizens living here who have Irish medical cards but the Tánaiste did not refer to the Europeans. The former Minister for Finance, Mr. Charlie McCreevy, introduced this scheme and said that he was doing so to repay the people who built...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: It is important to note that Deputies Finian McGrath and Jackie Healy-Rae were among the 73 Deputies who voted "Yes" in the last vote, as a precursor to taking away medical cards from elderly people. That should not be forgotten in their constituencies. I suggest, in view of this appalling decision by the Government, that we adjust our business today so that the Minister for Health and...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Minister for Health and Children, who has been blamed by the Minister for Finance and most other Fianna Fáil Deputies in the corridors of this House——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: They have decided to blame the Minister, Deputy Mary Harney, for this when clearly it is another part of the Lenihan levy and a consequence of a Government that does not know what it is at.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I suggest, with the Tánaiste's agreement, that we adjust the Order of Business for today and give the Minister for Health and Children half an hour or more to clear up any confusion that exists on the Government's intention to go ahead with this decision.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I am glad to see that the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Finneran, is here and is wide awake for this very important debate.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I know the Deputy was awake yesterday. It was only a long blink he was having. I put that suggestion to the Tánaiste.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: All caused by the Tánaiste.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: I want to give the Tánaiste and the Government notice that the Opposition parties — I am sure I can say this on behalf of the Labour Party — will continue to pursue the Government's crazy decision on medical cards for the over 70s. In respect of tomorrow's debate on the bank guarantee scheme, as published by the Government and given approval by the European Commission, Deputy Joan Burton...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: That is not agreed. I do not want to agree to anything in the Order of Business until we get clarification from the Tánaiste on behalf of the Government about what amounts to the most stupid, callous own goal ever——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: ——perpetrated by a Government on elderly folk in regard to the medical card issue announced in the budget on Tuesday. There has been nothing but confusion and laying blame from one Minister to another over this matter. Even this very morning from Brussels the Minister for Finance said the Minister for Health and Children would have ample time between now and January to sort out any...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The difficulty is that the decision made by the Government and announced in the budget has driven a stake through the integrity of older folk in Ireland.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Government has taken away their medical cards.