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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jul 2013)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Economic Management Council plans to meet before budget 2014. [28692/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jul 2013)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he attended any Cabinet sub-committee meeting in the month of May. [30043/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jul 2013)

Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub Committee on Mortgages has met recently [31472/13]

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is a fundamental point to make.

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.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach confirm the policy is not what the Minister stated last week?

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...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: RAPID Programme (16 Jul 2013)

Micheál Martin: 74. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of meetings organised since March 2011 at national level between his Department and the Chairs and co-ordinators of the RAPID Teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33730/13]