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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: An elderly person who needs an operation in the North but cannot afford it-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----might very well be glad of the opportunity to go there. That person would not like someone sitting inside here heckling someone who is trying to stand up for elderly people. How dare Deputy Shortall go against old people like that? That is wrong.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: This is my time-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and I want to finish it. I hate the idea of a person-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: What does Deputy Shortall know about people in Kerry or west Cork who need to go to the North to save their eyesight?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Shortall has chosen to try to cut me out of making my points.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is extremely unfair and very unprofessional.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is a low thing for Deputy Shortall to interrupt a debate like that.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Buses? It is about people's eyesight. How dare you, Denis?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am not surprised with Deputy Shortall but I am surprised with you, Denis. I really am. I did not think you would go attacking people for whom we are trying to work.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I had a couple of minutes left to finish my point and Deputy Naughten went heckling me in the middle of it.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: First, I raise the issue of the fair deal scheme, which I was a great believer in because it was helping and assisting in many cases. As late as last night - I will give the House the sums - an elderly couple's fair deal was assessed. They are not wealthy people and do not have much savings. This married couple both had previous spouses who are now deceased. For the gentleman, the fair...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: We have to be able to say to these people that they will be able to afford it and will be able to go up. They were looking forward to it. Many of them have gone previously to have one cataract removed-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ----- and now they have to go for a second time and they were looking forward to that. I am asking the Minister of State, as I asked the Taoiseach earlier today, to please take this on board and try to ensure these elderly people will have their sight saved and will be able to afford to do so. I thank the credit unions in Kerry, with which I work very closely-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am just finishing this point-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: The credit unions have helped those people-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Can the Deputies just let me finish?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: The credit unions have helped to finance these trips to the North. Now they will not be in a position to do so. My goodness, I would not dare interrupt Deputy Shortall.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Tell that to the people who are in danger of losing their eyesight.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would not dare sit here and interrupt Deputy Shortall while she is talking. I would not dare do it.