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Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I thank Deputy McDonald for her concern about Mr. Halawa. If she wants him to be released, it does not help his case for her to disregard the work that has been done by Irish officials on a continuous basis. It is very easy for the Deputy to come into the House and scoff on almost any issue. She scoffs at the work of the officials in question and the idea that they have visited Mr. Halawa...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: It does not become her to do that.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I do not know if she is familiar with how the legal and political systems work in Egypt but our officials have worked extremely hard. Last week, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Taoiseach met at length members of the Halawa family and went through the case with them in great detail.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: From her comments, it is clear that members of the family also met Deputy McDonald either before or after that meeting. Everybody in Ireland is deeply concerned about the position in which this young man finds himself and wants to see him home in Dublin.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: We have a foreign affairs service so as to have a resolution to these types of extremely distressing case. As I stated, I commend Amnesty International and want the Government to continue its detailed work to have this young man released. The Deputy wants me to enter into negotiations on the floor of the Dáil. I want to focus on what will see this young man released but she has other...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The task force on overcrowding and trolleys in hospitals and emergency departments has been allocated an additional €74 million to ease the difficulties. It is not acceptable to have somebody of an advanced age on a trolley for anything longer than a number of hours. This is something that hospital management must address. Anybody who has experience of waiting with an elderly person...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I invite the Deputy as a health spokesperson to go and see the building, which is more than 50% complete.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: That is what will deliver primary health care around the country.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: Furthermore, for all those parents of the 270,000 children who are going to benefit from the general practitioner medical card, it will ensure that those children, from birth to six years of age, will have a very good primary health care service through GPs.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The Deputy has a difficulty because it has taken time. During his party’s period in charge of the Health Service Executive, which his party leader helped to create, notwithstanding the funding that was available-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: -----and throwing money at the problem, the outcomes were much less than those now being achieved.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: If the Deputy goes back over the history of mother and child health care in this country, to the period of Dr. Noël Browne, it has always been necessary and appropriate to negotiate with GPs.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: My message to GPs around the country is to engage with the HSE and to give the 270,000 children-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: -----and their parents who would benefit from a GP medical card the opportunity to improve their health not just from nought to six years, but because those years are so vital for the rest of their childhood and their adult life.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. Anybody who has read or heard about this issue through the media, or who has had an opportunity to meet people with a deep interest in this case, as I have, including members of his immediate family, whom I met briefly, would want to see Ibrahim Halawa at home in the bosom of his family in Ireland. We know that he went to Egypt to see his extended...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: Every hospital management has to be alerted to the issue of elderly patients being on trolleys for unacceptably long periods of time, which was mentioned by the Deputy. I know the Minister is absolutely determined to ensure such cases should not actually occur. I want to sympathise with those affected by the recent cases, including their families. As the Deputy knows, €5 million is...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: These decisions are made for medical and business reasons by the doctors' practices and the many medical companies that are involved in this sector nowadays. Very good progress has been made with this initiative, which has been discussed in this country over a long period of time. The number of GPs signing up has actually been very good in my constituency and in most of the suburbs on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I should point out that the means test for carer's allowance (CA) has been significantly eased over the years, and is now one of the most generous means tests in the social welfare system - the income disregard is €332.50 per week for a single person and €665 per week for a couple I am satisfied that the means test as it presently applies in respect of CA helps to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The person in question was requested by a Social Welfare Inspector to submit documentation in relation to her ongoing entitlement to her one parent family payment; she was also advised that failure to submit this information would affect her ongoing entitlement to a payment. The documentation was not submitted and her payment was terminated. Her entitlement to a payment under the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 2ndJune 2015, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and...