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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (25 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that currently her Department are processing carer's allowance applications for November 2011, 11 months after the applications have been submitted; the action being taken to clear this backlog; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46912/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (25 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm the dates currently being processed by her Department in respect of invalidity pension applications; the action being taken to clear this backlog; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46914/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork suffering with Multiple Sclerosis cannot be considered at this time for the Health Service Executive home care package scheme due to existing budgetary restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46915/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health the reason supporting documentation requested by the Client Registration Services and submitted by the applicant is not being received in an ever increasing number of cases; if this is a procedural failure or means of extending the 15 day processing timeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46908/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Health Service Executive are unable to provide sufficient day care or residential support services in line with health and safety protocols in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork due to Government imposed efficiencies; the steps he will take to resolve the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Health Service Executive has not received any demography funding for new residential places in 2011 or 2012 and that as a result the HSE is not in a position to fund a fulltime residential placement or shared care placements at the present time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46910/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards Eligibility (25 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card renewal applications which historically were granted on exceptional medical needs are being considered for renewal as a standard application on the basis of means and not under the medical criteria for which they were originally awarded where that medical need still exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46911/12]

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: I read it. I give credit where credit is due on the document.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: People expected bondholders to be burned -----

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: ----- but, of course, they were not.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: What was worse is that unsecured bondholders were paid over and above any bank guarantee.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government did it until the most recent of times. What is even more incredible is that it paid back those who bought the bonds at a significant discount. The Taoiseach's assessment was correct but that did not suit the message that had to be articulated during the election campaign.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: He can say that as he leaves the Élysée Palace but in this House he mutters that we panicked. He cannot have it both ways.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is time he copped on.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State knows that the Taoiseach had a very fretful weekend.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: It was not because of me or anybody else on this side of the House but because of Angela Merkel.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: I was the first to say that I wanted the Government to succeed in terms of debt but it cannot continue to say everything it is doing is right.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Has the Minister of State not indicated that the debt is unsustainable?

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: His Department officially states that the debt is sustainable.

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is noteworthy that the Minister of State's comment on "Prime Time" that the debt is unsustainable directly contradicted the view of his own Department. In May 2012, the Department produced a document, The Irish Economy in Perspective, which stated that our debt is sustainable.