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- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I want to raise the issue-----
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill is no joke for over 2 million people-----
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: -----for whom health insurance will increase by at least 15% to 20%.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: That is no joke, particularly for hard-pressed families. Will the Tánaiste agree to the suspension of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill until the HIA report has been published? We are not asking for a massive delay as it is to be published in a number of days. This would allow us to have an informed debate on the issue of health insurance, which is in crisis in this country. On...
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: It is the employment permits Bill.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: We do not have the report.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Has he told him?
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: It is a political liability Bill.
- Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Deputy should get on to his constituency colleague.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I hope the Tánaiste does not tell that to the delegates in Killarney. They would not be too happy about it.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste's comments, quoted in the media yesterday, about reducing taxes for the coping classes in the years ahead were very interesting. I am sure that was for an audience not here but in Killarney over the coming weekend. The residential mortgage arrears and repossession statistics for quarter three reveal a damning indictment of the failure of everybody trying to deal with...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I have also read the synopsis of the report and there are two key areas the Tánaiste has not mentioned. I repeat a sentence I already quoted: "However, this decrease [the 1.5% the Tánaiste mentioned] masks divergent trends between short-term and longer-term arrears." The report continues: "PDH mortgage accounts in arrears of over 90 days at end-September 2013 amounted to 99,189,...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Would the Tánaiste agree that threatening letters are not the way to address this cohort of people? There has to be meaningful engagement and a certain element of independent oversight. At the end of the day a bank's only interest is to protect its capital base - that is its obligation. Surely the Government and the Central Bank have an obligation to those people to have some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Deputy’s point is totally irrelevant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I must apologise but I must leave the meeting to attend Leaders' Questions in the Dáil. All of my staff members, however, will be listening into these proceedings, so I would appreciate if all my questions were answered.
- Other Questions: Disability Activation Projects (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 7. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of adults in receipt in receipt of disability allowance that are currently on community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50610/13]
- Other Questions: Disability Activation Projects (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: As the International Day of Persons with Disabilities falls next Tuesday, I felt obliged to table a question on the number of persons with intellectual disabilities who are finding pathways to employment. While I understand the considerable pressure on employment in general, more should be done to find pathways for people with intellectual disabilities into community and sheltered employment...
- Other Questions: Disability Activation Projects (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I accept the difficulties involved in creating employment generally. Problems also arise in the case of people who will lose social supports such as medical cards if they move into employment. Finding employment for people with disabilities is a long-standing problem. We must examine every obstacle that is placed in the way of people with intellectual and physical disabilities who wish to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the various health insurers. Not much has changed since we last spoke to the insurance companies; circumstances have just become progressively worse. I will say again today everything I have said publicly. If one were to visit this country and examine the policies of the Government, and the Department of Health, in particular, one would assume they are trying to dismantle private...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Anti-Poverty Strategy (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 20. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether the official measurements of poverty give sufficient consideration of the extra costs of having a disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50611/13]