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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a claim under the insolvency payment scheme will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55697/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Croke Park Agreement (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the details of his proposed pay related savings of €308 million in 2013; the way this saving will be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55698/12]

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

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed saving of €160 million in the cost of drugs and other prescribed items is a gross or a net figure; the estimate for the cost of new drugs being prescribed in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55699/12]

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

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the €60 million savings on the Department Vote announced in the Expenditure Report 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55700/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the way he will make €20 million savings in procurement in 2013; the procurement savings that have been made to date in 2012; the anticipated outturn for procurement savings in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55701/12]

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

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional medical cards he anticipates being granted in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55707/12]

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

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional general practitioner cards he anticipates being granted in 2013, not including those over 70 years who are losing the automatic entitlement to a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55708/12]

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

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged over 70 years that will lose their entitlement to a medical card in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55709/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cost (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the way the Programme for Government pledge to reduce the costs of delivering private healthcare will be fulfilled through the health budget for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55710/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding that will be provided for the care of older persons in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55711/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the additional home care packages that will be provided in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55712/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the additional home help hours that will be provided in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55713/12]

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: In September, Fianna Fáil tabled a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, because of his handling of the health services and Sinn Féin has now tabled a motion of no confidence in the Government. The reason we are speaking on this motion is not because of what happened yesterday or the day before but because of what was said by the two parties in this...

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: There is no point in dressing it up in any other way. It is regressive because those who are on lower pay and social welfare will have to pay proportionately more than those on higher income.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: It is a mathematical fact, as has been pointed out by the ESRI in regard to last year's budget. The Government's statement of common purpose announces:On the 25th February a democratic revolution took place in Ireland. Old beliefs, traditions and expectations were blown away. The stroke of a pen, in thousands of polling stations, created this political whirlwind. The public demanded...

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: The next line is important from the Labour Party's point of view: "A Government that will be built on partnership and parity of esteem between our two parties." This budget was a Fine Gael budget.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: It completely stymied any attempt by the Labour Party to defend the vulnerable and those who need the support of the State.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: That is a fact. Prior to going into government, the Labour Party promised it would not cut child benefit or social welfare rates. It would not even increase the price of a bottle of wine.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: It was as if Fine Gael wanted to rub the Labour Party's nose in it. Fianna Fáil supports this motion of no confidence partly because we do not have confidence in the ability of the Minister, Deputy Reilly, to continue in office. He was supported by the Government in the vote on our motion of no confidence in him. The Labour Party lost a colleague in that vote.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: We lost the vote but the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, lost a colleague. She is losing colleagues on a regular basis. We know we will not win the vote on this motion, but I assure her that when she meets the people on the streets, they will tell her they feel betrayed by the Labour Party. There is no point in it claiming the challenges are huge. It knew about these inordinate...