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Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----written by the local chairman of Deputy Mattie McGrath's independent organisation down there.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: I might point out that, for instance, there has been no increase in income tax like the Deputy mentioned. There have been 16,000 new start-ups of individual businesses in the past 12 months. We have halted the rot of losing 7,500 jobs per month for three years to a point where 2,000 jobs are now being created every month. Today, the Deputy will have heard the news about Symantec announcing...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure what the Deputy does with his Independent allowance unless he has someone writing for him. He should be able to go back to that person and say that he read it out anyway.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: In fact, the big news from Tipperary, particularly in Newcastle and the surrounding region, was why Deputy Mattie McGrath made representations to the Taoiseach to appoint a Minister of State in south Tipperary. He got his answer. He delivered the Minister of State.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 9, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on health has met three times since the Easter recess. The Economic Management Council, EMC, has met six times since the Easter recess, most recently on 4 July. Two of these meetings were in May and the council has met five times in the past two months. In general, the EMC meets weekly and will continue...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: The answer is “Yes”. The Tánaiste was in direct contact with the Secretary of State, Ms Villiers, on the matter and the Minister of Justice in Northern Ireland, Mr. Ford. Everybody agrees with the sentiment Deputy Adams expressed that there should be harmony and community peace in Northern Ireland. On the morning of the recent North-South Ministerial Council in Dublin...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: The answer is “Yes”. I spoke to Mr. Nelson last year when he visited Dublin. That was one of the issues the parties discussed for inclusion in the multi-annual financial framework, MFF, of substantial funding under the peace dividend, the inclusion of INTERREG funding, and a recognition that of the many parades to which Deputy Adams referred the vast majority passed off...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: The medical card has always been an important element of this country's society. When they were operated by the various health boards through clinics throughout the country there was a more personal connection with those who applied for them and it was always possible to explain directly what an individual's circumstances might be. At present more medical cards are issued than ever before.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin raised an issue about discretionary medical cards which, according to newspaper reports, have been reduced by 20,000 in recent years. He called on the Minister to apologise in respect of a particular case. I do not have the details of this case and I invite the Deputy to send them to me and I will have the Minister examine it. When a person gets the results of a series of...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----but if the person has been unemployed since 1985 and has multiple issues, with other complications as well as cancer, and a card issued to the person involved until 2021 has now been withdrawn, there is a reason for somebody making this decision and we need to find this out. I have no doubt about the veracity of the case mentioned by the Deputy, and if the person has been out of work...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: There is not a household in the country which has not been affected by cancer, including mine, and everybody understands the gravity and shock which comes with the dreaded word being diagnosed, but it is true to say medical science has advanced to a great degree over the past 30 years and many of the initial diagnoses of cancer are treatable and are dealt with and people move on to live very...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: Professor Kerin and the researchers involved in breast cancer research in Galway do enormous work. I spoke to somebody whose wife went through this quite recently who told me he would never again question the necessity of having centres of excellence, because his wife received such wonderful treatment and is now deemed to be clear.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: This is wonderful and is an advance of medical science. A total of 43% of the population now have medical cards and last year the number of people covered was 1.854 million. This year we want the figure to reach 1.9 million people.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: The number of medical cards is increasing-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and so is the cost. Nobody would disagree with the gravity of the situation which arises when cancer, leukaemia or motor neurone disease is diagnosed.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: Most people in the House have friends and family involved. The principal which underscores medical cards, as the Deputy knows because he was in the Department previously-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----under the Health Act 1970 is to provide comprehensive free medical care to anybody who cannot without hardship afford it. The decision taken allows for a case-by-case analysis of whatever the consequence of diagnosis might be. I will see to it the Minister examines the case mentioned by the Deputy-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: The policy is to cover 1.9 million people in the country with medical cards this year.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: This number is rising-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2013)

Enda Kenny: It is not true, as I understand it, to state the Minister or the HSE stated one will not receive a medical card unless one has terminal cancer. The Minister disagrees with this and is clear he did not state this.