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- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Now we know how the Dáil hears news because the Deputy has just announced that the summer recess will commence in six weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Therefore, the Deputy only speaks in generalities.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I will talk about it. I thank the Deputy for a premature announcement of the summer recess. Had he tabled a question without any story in the national newspapers or anywhere else, the answer would have been that the Minister of State was considering a number of other proposals to make the structure more effective. I would have told the Deputy the truth, namely, that the Minister of State...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin reminds me of what he said himself many years ago, which is that it takes longer to get things off the ground in health than in any other Department. He is quite right.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: I saw the story this morning about free GP care for those with long-term illness. The Minister of State, Deputy White, is dealing with this matter very effectively.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Actually, what the Minister of State has done here is to look at the situation and, if one likes, take a stocktaking view of what has happened and needs to happen. It is important to say to Deputy Martin that the Government is fully committed to delivering free GP care in its first term of office, as set out in the programme for Government. No decision has been taken to go back on that. It...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister of State made a very valid point. He pointed out that the legislation that would be required to deal with free GP care for persons with long-term illness would obviously have to have a legal basis for eligibility-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and that eligibility was based principally upon means, that is, income and residency. The legal framework for eligibility under the first phase of free GP care would be based on a medical condition-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and that first phase would require a new legal and administrative arrangement setting up doctors panels for assessment of eligibility of the persons with long-term illness in the first place.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: What the Minister of State, Deputy White, pointed out was-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----that he would be far more effective in looking at the longer strategy in implementing the roll-out of free GP care beyond just that sector dealing with long-term illness, because one would have to set up a bureaucracy to deal with the assessment and requirement for determining eligibility for GP care for persons with long-term illness.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: ----- for free GP care for a sector with long-term illness and then have to move on to the other sectors. He said he wanted to look at the entire scheme, and I support him in that.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: He will report back to the Cabinet sub-committee by the end of this month with a view on the longer-term, more effective and less administratively costly roll-out of free GP care, which is ultimately to cover the entire population.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The story I read today in the national newspaper is, in the main, accurate but it does not say what the Government has not done here - the Government has not made a decision to end free GP care. What the Government has done is authorise the Minister of State, Deputy White, at his request, to look at the longer view-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----and a more effective appraisal of the entire scheme, rather than focus on legislation dealing with one sector which would require a legal base, an administrative set-up, a bureaucratic system and panels of doctors for assessment of eligibility on medical grounds for those who would be covered. I support him in this. I support him in this.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: It is a valid stocktaking exercise by a Minister who is taking into account the longer scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin makes a comment and asks a question.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, is dealing with the area of primary care.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: His appointment to that Department has allowed him to focus on an element of the scheme for the introduction of free GP care for persons with long-term illness.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Minister of State, Deputy White, quite rightly looked at the requirement for legislation in that area to deal with eligibility on medical grounds-----