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- Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The heads of the Garda compensation (malicious injuries) Bill have been approved by the Government and it is expected to be published early next year. The heads of the housing Bill are expected by the end of the year.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government has a target to end homelessness. Nobody should have to sleep rough. It is very tragic that anybody has to sleep rough. On the issue of public housing, the Government has, in this year's budget, recommenced a public housing programme.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The consumer and competition Bill is expected to be published this session.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We want every family and householder in mortgage difficulty to have that difficulty resolved and to avoid up losing their home. There is no family that we want to see excluded from the arrangements we have put in place to resolve mortgage arrears difficulties. There is not a single solution that fits every case.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: If the Deputy has a particular case in mind, he should let me know.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There is not. At the beginning, the Deputy said there were 30,000 families facing eviction. There are not.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There are not.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There are not 30,000 families facing eviction, nor will there be. However, there are 30,000 families who would be facing that prospect if we had not put in place the measures we have put in place to deal with the issue of mortgage arrears.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There is no question of their not qualifying. Every single case of mortgage arrears difficulty must be resolved, and issues must be resolved on a case-by-case basis.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 9, proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2013, back from committee; No. 9a, Credit Reporting Bill 2012, motion to instruct the committee (on supplementary Order Paper); No. 18, Credit Reporting Bill 2012 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 5, Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 -...
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy asked quite a lot of questions. If he bears with me, I will go through the Bills we intend to publish. The health (general practitioner medical service) Bill is expected this session. The heads of the Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill have been approved by the Government. I do not know the date for the publication. The health identifiers Bill will be in...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There is a difference between those who cause a problem and those who solve it. There has been a problem about levels of pay in the section 38 organisations. The Government is addressing it. As Deputy Adams will recall, the issue came to light when a HIQA report was carried out on Tallaght hospital in 2012. Following that, the Minister for Health requested the HSE to carry out a complete...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not agree that 30,000 families face eviction. However, 30,000 families would face eviction if the Government had not taken the steps it is taking to deal with the mortgage arrears problem. That is why today, for example, the new personal insolvency legislation will come into effect that will reduce from 12 years to three years the period of time for bankruptcy. I also agree that the...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There has not been a change in policy. The Deputy has said that a number of times and it is part of the distortion which he has continued.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There are criteria for the issuing of medical cards. More medical cards have been issued by this Government than by any previous Government.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is. The Deputy has come in here and argued that there are fewer medical cards and that the numbers are being reduced because the policy is being changed. That is simply not true. Let us deal in facts. First, more medical cards are being issued now than at any other time. Since the beginning of this year, an additional 20,000 medical cards have been issued on a discretionary basis....
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: One euro out of every €8 of public expenditure in the State is now spent on disabilities. This Government is spending more on disability services now, in difficult times, than was spent in 2008, when Fianna Fáil was in Government at the height of the boom.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have the figures here.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Everybody in this House knows that there have been problems in some cases with regard to the issuing of discretionary medical cards. The Minister for Health has made it very clear that the issue is being addressed. Somebody with a need for a medical card ought to have one. There have clearly been some cases in which medical cards either have been withdrawn or have not been issued when the...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I agree that people who donate to charities are to be commended for their generosity, even in difficult times. That work should not be undermined by what has happened in some agencies and issues relating to the pay of senior executives. We have to bear in mind that this issue has come to the fore because the HSE has undertaken a study of the different agencies and levels of pay. It is...