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Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy never listens. The point is that taxpayers are paying doctors for medical card services in respect of the GMS list. That is normal, as it should be, but the lists should be accurate. The reason for carrying out an analysis is to find out the truth about how many of those whose medical cards are still on the list have died -----

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: ----- how many migrant workers have gone away, how many medical cards are redundant, how many people have moved and where numbers have increased. The message on medical card applicants is that the eligibility limits apply in the ordinary way for the majority and that they qualify for full medical cards. Those at the top end who lose full medical cards qualify for GP cards.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not at all accept Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's assertion. I heard her being questioned on this issue this morning and when she was asked what she would do, she gave no answer, other than to continue with Sinn Féin's policy of Sinn Féin promotion. Like everybody else, I regard the young people of this country as its future. The Deputy, however, seems to want to confine them to...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The budget for 2014 is the first and critical step that will allow this country to exit the bailout programme into which Fianna Fáil led us. It is designed to get this country back to work, which is the central mandate given to this Government of the Fianna Gael and Labour parties. Yesterday's budget contains a series of measures to deal with that. Deputy Martin mentioned a number of...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: For example, the State pensions, carers schemes, free travel and free television licences have not been touched. Because we recognise that fuel is a major issue for the elderly the fuel allowance has not been changed and excise duty on fuel has been left untouched. The tax treatment of the elderly remains unchanged. There is no change in the net income for pensioners as a result of this budget.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Those aged 65 and older will continue to be treated more favourably under the Irish income tax code than all other taxpayers. This favourable treatment of pensioners has been protected by the budget. The question of the bereavement grant was raised. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, dealt with that very adequately yesterday. The allowances to support our elderly continue...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: A pensioner who receives the old age pension, contributory or non-contributory, or has the changed limits here, is fully entitled to a medical card and will get it in accordance with those criteria. Of the 1.8 million cards issued, more than ever before, people are paying for these cards. Some people have died, some cards are redundant because people's incomes have changed and they have...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: There has not been. Everybody who is entitled to a medical card under those criteria receives one. We should not send scare messages to pensioners that all these medical cards are being taken away. Some 1.8 million medical cards have been issued. When the new eligibility limits and the threshold limits for GP cards are issued 97% of people over 70 years of age will have access either to...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I acknowledge that.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I accept that.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: By the reduction in the rate from 13.5% to 9% the industry was sustained, and it has provided 15,000 new jobs. County Clare, no more than anywhere else, has seen a beneficial impact.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is a case of listening to those in the industry and seeing where there is a demonstrable result that can sustain the industry and provide 15,000 jobs. People are excited about this measure and the abolition of the travel tax, which should affect air fares. Deputy Troy is gone, but I had a famous Latin teacher from Ballynacargy, which he mentioned.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: The report will be on the agenda before too long.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Penrose mentioned minimum pricing, which is part of what the Minister of State, Deputy White, will be dealing with. As I mentioned to Deputy Shortall, this is not an alternative process. Deputy Doherty asked about cross-Border comparisons. A cross-Border survey carried out by the Revenue Commissioners on 25 September 2013, using an exchange rate of €1 equals £0.8419,...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I will finish in two minutes. The rate of duty on beer was last increased in 1994 and the cider rate was increased at the end of 2001 to bring it in line with the rate for beer. The spirits rate was increased the following year and this increase was also applied to spirits-based alcopops. Rates for wine, with pro rata increases for certain fermented and intermediate products, were...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Gabh mo leithscéal.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I will answer the Deputy directly.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Shortall is correct. This resolution provides for increases in the prices of alcohol products with effect from midnight. It is not meant to be an alternative strategy for alcohol nor is it a strategy for dealing with alcohol consumption. The item was on the agenda for today's Cabinet meeting but it is an issue that requires some considerable discussion both at Cabinet and in the...

Allocation of Time: Motion (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I would say the Sinn Féin Whip agreed it less than ten minutes ago.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: I move: (1) THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 75 of the Finance Act 2003 (No. 3 of 2003), that Act be amended, with effect as on and from 16 October 2013, by substituting the following for Schedule 2 to that Act (as amended by section 58 of the Finance Act 2013 (No. 8 of 2013)): “SCHEDULE 2 Rates of Alcohol Products Tax (With effect as on and from 16...