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Medical Cards. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister for Health and Children not accept that this is a shameful record? As this country has become richer, the number of people able to avail of the medical card has declined consistently. This is not because more people are richer but because the ceiling has been kept so low by a Government that is not willing to address the great difficulty people on low incomes have in...

Medical Cards. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Will the Minister be honest with the people in regard to the position with medical cards and explain how she can say she is giving 30,000 additional medical cards and stand over figures that show the number of medical cards have dropped during her time in office?

Medical Cards. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: I wish to ask one supplementary.

Medical Cards. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: It is a simple matter. The income levels will have to increase to a realistic rate. That is what can and should be done.

Medical Cards. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Will the Minister state that the Government of which she is a member that promised 200,000 new medical cards has broken its promise, that it is abandoning the commitment it made to the people and will not deliver the badly needed medical cards to 200,000 people?

Medical Cards. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: The Minister is taking them away.

Accident and Emergency Services. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to address the serious situation identified in the recent Health and Safety Authority report on a number of accident and emergency departments, particularly the warning that persons seeking treatment were being put at risk of injury, infection and violence; and if she will make a statement on the...

Accident and Emergency Services. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Will the Tánaiste accept that there is a certain irony in her words, considering that she refused to accept the motion which will be put tonight by Fine Gael on drunkenness in accident and emergency departments? While she welcomed the Health and Safety Authority's report, she did not commission it. Will she tell us when accident and emergency departments will be made safe? What is the...

Accident and Emergency Services. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: The Minister for Health and Children veered away from the question. How many hospitals have decided to move additional beds into their hospital wards? The Minister sees this as a good idea but how many hospitals agree and how many are adopting it? Regarding an individual hospital's requirement to make a provision that is beyond its control, surely the Minister has a role there. Nobody expects...

Accident and Emergency Services. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Which ones have?

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: I have two questions. First, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin, misled the House this morning. He e-mailed——

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: I am asking a question about it. The e-mail is not mentioned in the Travers report. How does one ensure that the record of the House is corrected?

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Have I no other way of correcting the record of the House?

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Is it the case that I have no other way of getting the record of the House corrected?

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: I am asking the Chair to confirm that there is no other way in which the record can be corrected.

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: I appreciate that.

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: I am prepared to accept the information the Chair is giving me but this is a matter of fact rather than opinion.

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Even if it is not true.

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: Even though it is not true.

Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Liz McManus: May I ask my second question?