Results 11,221-11,240 of 36,764 for speaker:Enda Kenny
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the emergency card given and people who have particular difficulties.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I said here that in a case involving the HSE, I do not believe it should ask somebody six months further on have they still got motor neurone disease.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: That is not what we want.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes, I understand, and that is why we have intervened here to put a stop to that.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Just like other cases where centralised digital recording took place, these cases come to light all the time and each time they do we try to deal with them with a sense of compassion. The Minister, Deputy Reilly, is going to meet with the nurses from the Jack & Jill Children's Foundation to go through these cases so that the State can say of course we understand that people-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----have particular difficulties, some of them for life. I have a case here of a person who has motor neurone disease, who is suctioned ten times a day but is very much over the limit in terms of eligibility. What are we to do? Are we to say that everybody gets a card here?
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: That person needs 24-hour care and cannot speak, walk or do anything. In our nation's history-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----we would never want to see a situation where they are left without attention or without medical care. The Deputy refuses to focus on the fundamental issue that we are trying to deal with here.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: The law has been there for many years. That is why probably back in 2002-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----Deputy Martin disgraced himself with another promise that he could not keep.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am giving the Deputies the figures for discretionary cards from 2011 to 2014-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and we will continue to show compassion and understanding where that is possible in all these circumstances.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin for his question. I recall in 2002-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Healy-Rae should know that I always like to remind Deputy Martin of the truth. It is a very important element in Irish life.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: In 2002, Deputy Martin promised the electorate 200,000 extra medical cards. By the time he left the Department of Health in 2004, it was estimated that 100,000 individuals on low incomes had lost eligibility. That is Deputy Martin’s record.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: The question of discretionary medical cards, long-term illness cards, or cards for children or people with particular difficulties or for emergency situations is very serious because it impacts on people’s quality of life and causes stress and anxiety.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: A great number of our people who have full medical cards have not used them for quite some time because, as the Deputy knows, the legislation governing medical cards is based on financial hardship, not on medical condition. Community welfare officers in different parts of the country used their judgment in different ways to grant medical cards or not.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: That was from Deputy O'Dea. Deputy Martin centralised this process and the same criteria applied to everybody. That is where the problem has arisen because the centralisation does not take into account the particular circumstances that might apply in any individual case. When Deputy Reilly became Minister for Health-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----he requested a detailed examination of the 78,000 people who held medical cards on a discretionary basis, in March 2011. Of the 77,925 discretionary medical cards in circulation on 1 March 2011 their status on 1 March 2014 is that 25,398 people, 33%, still hold a medical card on a discretionary basis; 37,906 people, 49%, now have a full medical card based on an assessment of means-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputies opposite may laugh if they want. There are 37,906 people with a full medical card; 14,621 people, 19%, no longer hold a medical card, 3% of them were deceased, 7% did not respond to correspondence; 2% did not complete the review process and 7% completed the process but were found to be ineligible for a medical card. One of the key goals of the reform of the health system is to...