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- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: He can do some fundraising in the meantime.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: When does the Taoiseach envisage that legislation will be published to provide for the abolition of prescription charges? The Minister, Deputy Reilly, has announced on numerous occasions that he intends to abolish prescription charges. We have now found he has delayed that. Will it happen in the next 40 days or so? The Government's first 100 days are almost up.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: This is a key issue.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: We have now found-----
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: I genuinely believe-----
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister for Health should outline why legislation has not yet been published. There are just 40 days left in the Government's 100-day window for the abolition of these charges.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Did the Taoiseach not know that before 25 February last?
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: That is what we were told before 25 February.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Will it be retrospective?
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: These things have been promised, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Is it intended to promise the legislation?
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: The great surrender to Frankfurt.
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: We heard that one before.
- Registration of Deaths (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: That is a slur on the House.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: I hope the Minister of State with responsibility for older people can bring clarity to the issue of funding for nursing homes in the context of the fair deal scheme, which so far the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Reilly, has been unable to do.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: I am talking about the fair deal scheme. This is not about political gamesmanship. This matter has caused a great deal of distress and concern to many families and individuals who were in the process of being assessed and approved for funding for nursing home support under the fair deal scheme. To date we have had conflicting views in terms of the Minister's statement that the immediate...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: We did not write the programme for Government. The Government wrote it. We do not mind being blamed for things we are responsible for.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: We had to listen to it for 14 years.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce measures to allow qualified adults receive the living alone allowance in cases where the spouse or partner resides in a nursing home on a permanent basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12395/11]
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 353: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will address the situation whereby the families of those in nursing homes under the fair deal scheme are required to cover the costs of basics such as pads, devices and chiropody when many are on limited incomes themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12421/11]