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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (13 Dec 2012)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (13 Dec 2012)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (13 Dec 2012)

Alex White: It is intended to tighten the rules relating to a person’s income and spending that is taken into account when carrying out the means test for the medical card. A date has not been set for the implementation of these new rules. In advance of that, the Department will develop this proposal in more detail in consultation with the HSE. The new rules and the implementation date will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (13 Dec 2012)

Alex White: Changes to the income limits for medical card applicants over 70 years of age were announced in Budget 2013. At present, people over 70 are entitled to a medical card if their income is less than €700 per week for a single person or €1,400 for a couple. In line with measures announced in the Budget, the income limits are being reduced to €600 a week for an individual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (13 Dec 2012)

Alex White: It is estimated that the changes referred to by the Deputy will affect about 20,000 persons out of 360,000 over-70s medical card holders. This is about 5% of the entire over 70s population. Under the new arrangements, it is envisaged that 92% of the over 70's will retain their medical cards.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (13 Dec 2012)

Alex White: An allocation of €20 million was set aside in the HSE's 2012 National Service Plan for approximately 250 Primary Care posts (including Public Health Nurses (PHNs), Registered General Nurses (RGNs), Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists) and 17 Integrated Care Diabetes Nurse Specialist posts. The Diabetes Nurse Specialist posts will support the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2012)

Alex White: The HSE has established a clinician-led Medicines Management Programme (MMP), the aim of which is to ensure that all people have access to the essential medicines they need, that the medicines are safe, effective, and are prescribed and used rationally. The MMP will be led out by the National Medicines Information Centre (NMIC) and the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE) and will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Dec 2012)

Alex White: The Programme for Government commits to reforming the current public health system by introducing Universal Health Insurance with equal access to care for all. As part of this, the Government is committed to introducing, on a phased basis, GP care without fees within its first term of office. Primary legislation is required to give effect to Government commitment to introduce a universal GP...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: He relented some minutes later, presumably out of sheer embarrassment, having heard Deputy Fleming praise the measure as "taxation on people with large amounts of money sitting in the bank". It then dawned on the Sinn Féin party that this was perhaps a measure taxing wealth. I accept that the Labour Party has not been able to do everything it advocated in the manifesto it put to the...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: There had to be compromise and there has been. I have no doubt there were difficult negotiations leading up to this budget. The people of Ireland expect the parties in Government to work together in a coherent way.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: Who is up or down and which policy was or was not implemented is not important. This is about the serious business of government. Fine Gael and the Labour Party is the only combination of parties that can deliver that.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: There has been much talk about choice in this debate. It is true that there are some limited choices because of the constraints the Government and the State are facing, but there are choices nevertheless.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: The motion is premised on the notion that there is an altogether different way of addressing the crisis we are in and that a grand plan is available, a better plan with an alternative strategy, which, if the Government would only yield to it, would solve all our problems. That is a manifest falsehood. No other combination of parties or Deputies in this House has advanced such a plan. No...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: It refers to business assets. Does that include all such assets? It refers to pension pots. Does that include all pension pots? Up to 20% of the family home is also left out. What remains? What would Sinn Féin tax to get a revenue of €800 million from this so-called wealth tax? Who is it fooling? By the way, we will be discussing the property tax on Friday. We now know...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: I do not want to talk about that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Expenditure (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: the HSE and the Department of Health, a major new deal on the cost of drugs in the State was concluded in October last. It will deliver a number of important benefits, including - significant reductions for patients in the cost of drugs; - a lowering of the drugs bill to the State; - timely access for patients to new cutting-edge drugs for certain conditions; and - reducing the cost...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Application Numbers (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: The information requested by the Deputy will form part of the Health Service Executive 2013 National Service Plan, which is required to be published on foot of the Executive's allocation under the Estimates 2013 process.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Application Numbers (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: The information requested by the Deputy will form part of the Health Service Executive 2013 National Service Plan, which is required to be published on foot of the Executive's allocation under the Estimates 2013 process.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: At present, people over 70 are entitled to a medical card if their income is less than €700 per week for a single person or €1,400 for a couple. In line with measures announced in Budget 2013, the income limits are being reduced to €600 a week for an individual and €1,200 a week for a couple. This will mean that a single person with an income under €600...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Waste Disposal (12 Dec 2012)

Alex White: The Dispose of Unused Medicines Properly (DUMP) service is organised by the Health Service Executive. The HSE has therefore been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.