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- Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a10, motion re membership of a committee; No. 24, Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stages; No. 25, Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 1, Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Bill 2013 [Seanad] - Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The right of the director of the HSE to have the discretion to allocate cards on the mercy principle applies.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Equally, a doctor can say that a person - a child or an adult - needs a emergency card to deal with his or her circumstances. There is no inconsistency and no incoherence.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The decision is clear. Some €13 million is being made available to restore the medical cards that were taken away following the review of cards allocated on a discretionary basis. The HSE has confirmed this morning that it is working flat out to make sure all of those people get their medical cards back inside the next four weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is neither inconsistent nor incoherent.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: This decision was made after listening to stories of the pressure that is on so many people. I admit that obviously these things should not have happened, with the pressure and the strain they put on many families.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: We are moving to a new system. That is all under way.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: I appreciate the way the Deputy has phrased his question. One of the issues that arose when the assessment system was centralised was the clear difference between what was being done at various locations throughout the country. People would say, "How come that person was able to get a card when I could not even though I am in the same circumstances?".
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Stick with your scrap metal Bill.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The evidence was that in some locations around the country, the allocations were much higher than in other locations. The centralisation of this process was not a smokescreen. It was designed to ensure the assessment would be fair for everybody. Clearly, there were enormous difficulties for some Members in that regard. It was not a smokescreen at all.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Ó Caoláin's second point related to the endorsement of an extra €13 million for the Minister for Health in respect of the return of 15,000 cards to people who lost them following the discretionary review.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is a Cabinet decision. It is a collective decision of all the Ministers of the Cabinet. It is endorsed and decided unanimously in that regard. I hope that deals with the Deputy's second point. The Minister has already dealt with the question of compensation.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The important thing is that the Government has made a clear decision to provide extra money to return 15,000 cards to people who held medical cards or GP cards on a discretionary basis and who completed the eligibility review between 1 July 2011 and 31 May 2014.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: As I pointed out in response to the earlier question, if people were not in a position to respond to the review or complete the range of questions for certain reasons-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----that matter has to be taken into account by the HSE, as confirmed this morning.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has raised a number of questions. The Minister for Health requested a detailed examination of the status on 1 March of this year of the holders of the 78,000 discretionary medical cards that were in circulation on 1 March 2011. I will give the House the relevant information that emerged from that process. On 1 March last, some 33% of them - or 25,398 individuals - still held...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy has asked a range of questions. The Government accepts, and the Minister for Health made quite clear, that it is completely unacceptable that families were put through the stress and strain that arose from the decision to centralise the assessment for medical cards. I pointed out to Deputy Martin yesterday that under the Health Act 1970 the cards are governed by the phrase...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The decision yesterday was very clear. Those who lost cards granted on a discretionary basis as a result of the review system will have those cards restored.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: The circumstances of those who were unable to respond for whatever reason have to be taken into account. The Minister for Health was clear yesterday about the non-payment of compensation. In many of the individual cases long-term illness facilities covers the vast majority of the facilities, aids or appliances people - child or adult - might need.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: No. I do not accept that at all. There is no inconsistency or incoherence in the decision the Government made yesterday. That decision was very clear.