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Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I will conclude.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Today, very obviously-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Today, it is the system.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am endeavouring to conclude, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. There is always someone else to blame. Today it is the system. Now, we have learned the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, has had meetings with the officials to tell them how to do communications better. I suggest that some of those officials are laughing behind the idea that the Minister, Deputy James Reilly, would give them...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am not into personalities. It should not take the mother of a very young sick child to come on the national airwaves to get a decision reversed in respect of her entitlement to a medical card. That is the bottom line. This is affecting thousands of families throughout the country. I called on a family yesterday to whom the same thing happened. They have a five-year-old with a rare...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: He said it was 97% last week.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I would be happy to debate that some other time.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The health boards are gone eight or nine years.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: There are 26,000 fewer medical cards now.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: That has been the case from the beginning and it is why letters have been issuing all year to different families and communities. That is why people are terrified about next year and the provision in the budget for a reduction of €113 million on the basis of this wonderful word "probity". They know what happened this year when the edict went out from Government to start removing...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach acknowledge that there has been an ongoing policy of withdrawing medical cards and will he intervene to reverse that policy? It is never too late to change. This has been one of the most disgraceful manifestations of what the Government has been up to in the past 12 months. People throughout the country are witnessing it. Will the Government also withdraw the budget...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: No, the Taoiseach is wrong again.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach could not be right on that.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the questions I asked. For example, I asked if the Government would reverse the decision in the budget to take 35,000 medical cards from older people and he studiously ignored and avoided answering that question. I think the Taoiseach must be the only person in the country who believes there has not been a consistent attempt and policy to withdraw discretionary...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is very clear that the policy choices that the Government took last year and in has taken in this year's budget impact far more severely on children, sick people and our older population. Since July, Deputy Kelleher and I have been raising consistently the policy choice that the Government took last year to cull discretionary medical cards on an ongoing basis. Two weeks ago I raised this...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: 87. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to expand the national Famine commemoration; the plans he has to raise the profile of this event here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44498/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review with the Revenue Commissioners if the long version of form IT38 for capital gains tax can only be paid online; if this is the case, if he will review the impact on non-ROS registered taxpayers, not all of whom might have computer access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44430/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: 210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that have been taken to make the former Garda station on the North Road, Finglas available to the local community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44427/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: 355. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the budget being made available for Irish Water; the amount that has been spent to date in setting-up Irish Water; the budgeted expenditure for the coming years; the cost savings, economies of scales and increased efficiencies Irish Water will achieve, and the timescale for achieving these...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Priory Hall Development (22 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: 382. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if officials in his Department have met the residents of Priory Hall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39050/13]