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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I have raised this issue of the qualification criteria and the discretionary scheme on a number of occasions. Now, there is a clinical panel in place to assess and adjudicate on discretionary grounds. My concern is, and I believe every Deputy has had the same experience, that people who have been diagnosed with cancer are finding it more difficult to get medical cards on the discretionary...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: There is no confusion on the part of the Minister or myself about the difference between emergency and palliative care medical card applications.
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: It is not agreed. I do not know what the Minister has against the Gregorian calendar. Perhaps he does not like fish on Fridays. We want to make it clear that we would like more time for parliamentary scrutiny, particularly in the context of Leaders' Questions and questions to Ministers. Five weeks have passed since I was able to ask questions of the Minister for Health. I will be here...
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: We would welcome that.
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Well done, Deputy Keating. I am making a point about the very least we should be doing if we are to go down this road. We cannot accept the Friday sittings as long as they are no more than window-dressing.
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The substantive issue is the ability of the Opposition to hold the Government to account on Leaders' Questions and to hold Ministers to account on Question Time.
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I drove. I was there. The point is that there was nothing I could do.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Lots of people were repaid, however. The Government paid out on tens of billions of euro.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister has to renounce his own sins.
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: It is tragic that it took two parties to make the Labour Party.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister, Deputy Howlin, voted for it himself.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister voted for the guarantee.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I have no problem graciously acknowledging the fact that a deal was done last week on the promissory notes.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: In fact, the Minister probably got more acknowledgment for this from Fianna Fáil than he did from some of his backbenchers who are still unhappy that the debt has been socialised on to the sovereign.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The point I am making is that Labour did not dictate to Frankfurt because it got no debt write-down unlike the claims of the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he was in opposition and claimed it was Labour's way or Frankfurt's way.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The deal was an achievement but for Labour to claim it put the gun to Mario Dragi's head and threatened to pull the trigger is an absolute bluff. There is an agreement that will benefit people but only if the Government decides that a social divided is required from it. Many families are out there in huge distress. They did not support the parties opposite for cuts to child benefit,...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: This is predominantly the case in Dublin and other commuter-belt areas.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: When Deputy Keating heckles me, I really do think I am making progress.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The ability to pay the property tax has to be examined. There has been some fraying around the edges but the majority of people will be obligated to pay a property tax whether they can afford it, put food on the table or oil in the tank.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: This is about middle Ireland trying its best to pay health insurance and other costs that the State does not take up.