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- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It is proposed to take No. 5, Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed). Private Members' business shall be No. 147, motion re local and community development programmes, resumed, to be taken immediately after the Order of Business and, if not previously concluded, to be brought to a conclusion after 90 minutes. Tomorrow's fortnightly Friday business shall be No. 46,...
- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I can give the Deputy and the House a commitment that a Minister will report on the situation before the end of the month.
- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It is due later this session. I will ask the Minister for Health to revert to the Deputy in regard to the position on the work of Judge Murphy.
- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The monuments Bill will be brought before the House later this year.
- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I have no date for publication of the Central Bank (consolidation) Bill. The other Bill is on Report Stage in the House.
- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The first Bill will be published later this year and the Irish Aviation Authority (amendment) Bill will be published next year.
- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Unfortunately, I do not have a publication date for the bail Bill. I do not think it will be published this year. The criminal law (sexual offences) Bill will be published later this year.
- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Unfortunately, I do not have a publication date for that Bill but I will bring the Deputy's concerns to the Minister's attention.
- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: That work is being undertaken in the Department of Health and we expect to have legislation before the House later this year.
- Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It was expected to be published this session but that may not happen now. I will ask the Department to give an update to the Deputy directly.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Like every Member of this House and every citizen in the county, I thought we had become inured to the things that fall out of our dark past in this county. However, the discovery of a mass grave of infants and children is something so shocking that it jars all of us to our core. The Government is determined to get to the bottom of what exactly is the situation in Tuam. All the questions...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy clearly prepared her second question before she heard my answer to the first one.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: We need to get to the bottom of all these issues. In the early decades of this State, attitudes towards women, particularly unmarried women, and to the most vulnerable in our society revealed again and again a shocking litany of disregard for citizens. This Government was the first, after decades, to deal with the case of the Magdalen laundry women, and I am proud of our record in...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I agree with much of what the Deputy has said. Characterising these children as being discarded is an accurate characterisation which goes to the attitude the State had over those decades to the children of unmarried mothers. It is shocking, unacceptable and appalling, and we have to meet that in our time, as we have met other awfulness from our past. Speaking on behalf of the Government,...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The opening premise of the Deputy's question is wrong. There has been no cull or no intention of having a cull of medical cards.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The number of medical cards is at an all time high.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: This is an extremely serious matter. At the end of last year, there was 1.849 million medical cards; 42% of the population have medical cards. There are more medical cards in circulation now than at any time in our history.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I am a former Minister for Health. Every Administration has issued medical cards on the basis of the 1970 Act. It was done on a local basis determined by ability to meet medical costs. There was always a local discretion. Medical cards have been centralised in recent times. That was a decision made by the previous Administration that has been carried out. One of the things that has come...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: -----not on the basis of where one lives in the State, which has been the condition for the past number of decades, but on objective criteria. The criteria, however, must also be linked to some financial grounding because that is the basis of the 1970 Act, or we can have a broader debate about looking at how we can afford to ensure that everybody who is sick gets comprehensive medical care...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)
Brendan Howlin: First, I have full confidence in the Minister, Deputy James Reilly, and every member of this Government and I have full confidence in every Minister of State to do the job, the most difficult, challenging job that faces us all. Every Department has been faced with very difficult economic decisions to make. This Government has worked as a collective-----