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Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Perhaps the Minister can clarify it at the end. However, if she could give us a clear declaration, which has been called for by both of us who have spoken, that the levy will be used within the health insurance market, it would go some way towards providing assurances in that regard. I want to refer to the number of people who have private health insurance, which is 52% at present. We are...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Exactly.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Some people are-----

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Some people feel that the UK system has much going for it.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: In any case, the point I am making is that at some stage we will have to say that the current system does not work. I would like the Minister to comment on the consultants' contract and public-only consultants because they are measures she introduced. I welcome many elements of what she is doing but would it make more sense to have a one-tier system where everybody is treated fairly whether...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: He is probably looking to Berlin rather than to Boston.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am not sure if he is looking to Bismarck or Bevin.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The interruptions in this debate are quite interesting. We are managing to interact about our different proposals, although I accept the Chair must do his job. My overall concern with the legislation is that it is not well designed and is very cumbersome. Using a levy system to implement community rating and risk equalisation is not ideal and even the Minister admits it is an interim...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: My concern is that this is a cumbersome mechanism and that it may well turn out to have flaws. The Minister acknowledged this by her undertaking to bring forward amendments on Committee Stage. It would be preferable to introduce legislation to amend the original Act to take cognisance of the decision of the Supreme Court. In the context of what I predict will be the imminent introduction of...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I predict it can be done sooner. Deputy Reilly and I do not agree on everything. We are substantially in agreement on this issue but not on all of the detail. In the context of the establishment of a one-tier health system, it is important that we get the regulation of health insurance right. There must be tight and effective regulation as we enter what I hope will be a bright new dawn...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of money paid out in statutory redundancy payments in respect of each year from 2002 to 2008; the projected figure for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19837/09]

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made with regard to the implementation of the Temporary Agency Workers Directive, agreed at the Council of Ministers meeting on 23 May 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19838/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will approve the appointment of radiologists who have been recruited to complete the roll out of BreastCheck to the remaining counties Leitrim, Donegal and Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19848/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will prevent the closure of wards in Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin, Dublin, to ensure that children will not have to wait for longer than heretofore for procedures and treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20126/09]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she proposes to publish the health technology assessment on a possible bowel cancer screening programme which has been completed by the Health Information and Quality Authority at her request and the recommendations on the roll out of a bowel cancer screening programme prepared by the National Cancer Screening Service; and if she...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the position with regard to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 25 November 2008 in the context of a letter (details supplied) sent to this Deputy on 19 February 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19852/09]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of recent cases of delays in getting patients to hospital, she will review the level of ambulance cover that is available to the people of County Clare and the arrangements that are in place since the closure of night time accident and emergency at Ennis General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are due to get the Adoption Bill 2008 from the Seanad soon, but the bilateral agreements with Vietnam and Russia are still outstanding and hundreds of families throughout the country cannot adopt because the agreements have broken down. It is important that is resolved before the Bill goes through. Will the Tánaiste treat this as a matter of urgency? Will a high-level ministerial...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (13 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the issues in relation to the imposition of means testing for child benefit or making it subject to taxation; if so, what are these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18963/09]