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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (27 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he proposes to make it easier for visitors to travel between Britain and Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15269/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy (27 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he proposes to develop a land transport, road and rail, strategic investment framework to facilitate easy access to markets and the mobility of the workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15253/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (27 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the role he envisages for private health insurers in the provision of primary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15397/13]

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages: Tax Code (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I know but the Minister of State referred to it.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages: Tax Code (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Did I?

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages: Tax Code (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: This goes back to my original point which is that it is very hard for us to assess legislation in detail. The Minister of State has all the arms of State, the Attorney General up the road-----

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages: Tax Code (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: He has a plethora of eminent highly qualified officials who can tell him this and that. I know he does not need to be told much because he knows it already. I have a difficulty in trying to peruse huge Bills in the space of a few days. That is all we have. I have tabled these amendments both because I believe some of this requesting of information is wrong and to see the veracity of the...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages: Tax Code (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I will speak to the section as there are two amendments to it and we are opposing the section.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages: Tax Code (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Subsection (2) provides that "The Minister for Social Protection may request the Health Service Executive to furnish to him or her personal data held by the Health Service Executive when he or she requires the personal data for the purpose of calculating the means of persons". The HSE is retaining information on a particular applicant who goes about his or her business in applying to...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages: Tax Code (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I did not say that.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages: Tax Code (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: One can interpret the matter both ways. The reason I tabled the amendment was to find out what would be said by the Minister of State. The Revenue Commissioners may request the HSE to furnish it with personal data held by the HSE when the Revenue Commissioners requires the personal data for the purpose of assessing or collecting any tax, duty or other charge payable to the commissioners....

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: We were depending on the goodwill of the Minister of State.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 6:In page 11, subsection (9), line 2, after “shall” to insert “not”.I would like to hear the reply of the Minister of State.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I should have anticipated the reply of the Minister of State. This is fundamental for a number of reasons. Section 8(4) states: "Notwithstanding anything contained in the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, but subject to this section, a person who receives a request made in accordance with subsection (1), (2) or (3) shall comply with that request and shall do so in accordance with an...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I do not like to labour a point either but we have had form in this area before. Irish citizens who were abroad for just a number of years and came home of their own volition or because things did not work out in their new home and encountered the difficulty on return to Ireland that they were ineligible for many social welfare payments. My concern is that the guidelines the Minister issues...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: That it was done does not necessarily mean it was right. It happened in the context of social welfare. I sat on the other side of the House and voted for it. I voted for something that caused great distress and hardship to people when they returned to Ireland and found that after only a few years away they could not qualify for any social welfare payments. We had to beg and borrow and...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I know that. I was just giving an example.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: That is the point. I would not trust myself.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister of State made my argument inadvertently by pointing that the current qualification criteria are liberal because they are not based on domicile or Revenue Commissioners' criteria. The legislation, however, will allow the Minister to change the regime to make it more difficult to qualify than it is to qualify as domiciled. There is no guideline to say otherwise. We are to depend...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: In the case of social welfare appeals, people are waiting 18 months for decisions on disability assessments on appeal. In my view, the provision is an attempt to save money. A certain percentage of successful appeals will mean a cost to the Exchequer. I am concerned that this provision is open-ended. Neither the substantive 1970 Act nor the amended 2008 Act contains a provision that the...