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Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, this goes on all the time and it is wrong.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: What is going on is wrong. Deputies should be allowed have two minutes to ask a question. The Deputies opposite are shouting down democracy.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: I will indeed, but with respect ,it is not what is happening.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: They are interrupting all the time.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: In the meantime the point I am making is the centre cannot hold. I am not alone in saying this. The Health Insurance Authority has warned that the sustainability of the market is at risk.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: Other analysts are saying that the market is heading into a death spiral because of adverse selection risks. Essentially, younger people are leaving in their droves and are not there to cross-subsidise older members of the health insurance market and we are heading into a significant downward cycle that needs to be addressed. All we have been told is that it will be 2016 or 2017 before we...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is not the White Paper.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is not the White Paper.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Reilly, said a White Paper - he has been promising it for two years.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste's defence of the Minister, Deputy Reilly, is as consistent as ever.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: A long one.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: It will never happen.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: The deal was done before the Government came in to office.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: We read today that those who have health insurance are facing a further 15% hike in premiums from 1 July. This means that the average premium for two adults and two children will have doubled in the past three years, to €2,500. The hike about to come in is the result of legislation that is coming in July. The Government wants to raise €60 million and wants to charge the full...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: The public hospitals have always charged health insurance companies. What is proposed now is that it will be the full cost. The problem is that it is being done in a vacuum and without any overall solution coming forward in terms of the issues that face the funding of the overall health service. People pay their taxes. The average health insurance subscribers are taxpayers. They are not...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: Some 6,000 subscribers are leaving a month. Some 90,000 will leave between now and 2014 and 68,000 left in 2012.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: With respect to the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, it is Leaders' Questions. He was leader once, he is not now. I would appreciate that I would be allowed to ask the Tánaiste the question.

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: The people were promised that there would be a universal health model introduced. They were promised the Dutch model. There has not even been a White Paper in that regard. People were promised the sun, the moon and the stars and that this would be a painless approach to accessing health services and funding health services. The Dutch model was held out as the great solution to all our...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insolvency Service of Ireland Issues (2 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: 24. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the full operation of the Personal Insolvency legislation mechanisms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20783/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (1 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: 55. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the time frame for the roll out and completion of metering across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20452/13]