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Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the expected saving to the Exchequer from each of the various measures announced in Budget 2009 in respect of reducing entitlement to a jobseekers payment. [35627/08]

Freedom of Information. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the number of requests received by his Department under the Freedom of Information Act 1997 in the first eight months of 2008; if he will provide comparable figures for the same period in respect of each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29621/08]

Freedom of Information. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about a particular decision made by the Information Commissioner on 10 October last dealing with a Cabinet document relating to the Cabinet's consideration of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions. It decided the document should be released under the Freedom of Information Act and that European access to environmental information regulations superseded our domestic...

Freedom of Information. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The decision by the Information Commissioner that a Cabinet document should be released is highly significant. On what basis will the Government appeal the decision?

Social Partnership Agreements. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when he next plans to meet with the social partners. [29614/08]

Social Partnership Agreements. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the future of social partnership. [29615/08]

Social Partnership Agreements. (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I welcome the fact that the Government appears to be making some movement on the income tax levy and is offering some response to the position that was put to it by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. However, I would like to know more about what it intends to do here. What will be the cost of the decision to now exempt earnings at or below the national minimum wage from the income levy?...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has stated that the formula he announced this morning means that 95% of those who are over 70 now will qualify for a full medical card. If that is the case, why does he not just do the decent thing and leave them with an automatic entitlement to a medical card?

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This should be done instead of having them worried, as they are, that their income will creep up above the limits of €700 and €1,400, respectively, for those who are single or married. They are worried about what will happen if one partner dies and what income will be left to the other partner. They are worried whether, at some future stage, the Minister will reduce the level of the...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for offering to make the income information available. The income distribution on which this decision is based should be published today. The formula announced today by the Taoiseach has been designed more to solve his political problem than to settle the worries of pensioners who are concerned about losing their medical cards. While it may satisfy the more gullible...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is the week of publication of the social welfare Bill. Arising from that, I ask whether it remains the Government's intention that the provision for repealing section 1 of the Health Act 2001, which gives an automatic right to a medical card to people over the age of 70, will be included in the social welfare Bill or if separate legislation will be brought. When does the Government...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I plan to periodically remind the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach about the Dublin South by-election. In regard to the social welfare Bill, the Tánaiste is now providing new information to the House. My understanding from what she told us last week was that the removal of the medical card from pensioners would be in the Bill. She now tells us the Bill will be published in the first week of...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the Government not made a decision on this?

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If it is not going to be in the social welfare Bill, by what legislative means is the repeal going to be brought before the House? Clearly it has to be brought before the House reasonably quickly if the Government intends to proceed with it on 1 January.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Has agreement been reached between the two Ministers concerned as to who will move this historic matter?

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Which Minister will it be? The Tánaiste said "Yes", so there is agreement. Which Minister will take the medical card off the pensioners?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On promised legislation, the Tánaiste informed the House earlier that the legislative measure to remove medical cards from old age pensioners will be contained in the social welfare Bill. When will the Bill be published? I encourage all pensioners to ask their Deputy how he or she will vote on the measure when it comes before the Dáil. It is clear that the removal——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——of the medical card from pensioners will be done by legislation passed in this House.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That legislation will have to be voted on by every Member. Pensioners and their families should get an assurance from their Deputy that he or she will not vote——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——for the removal of the medical card from pensioners. When will the Government move the writ for the Dublin South by-election?