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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to index the income thresholds for medical cards to increases in the average industrial wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36359/08]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to double the income limit eligibility of parents of children under six years of age and treble them for parents of children with an intellectual disability of less than 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36360/08]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the €50 million multi-annual funding, promised in 2004, has been made available to the disability sector for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36383/08]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the €50 million required for the implementation of a Vision for Change has been made available in Budget 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36384/08]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding being provided for the implementation of the fair deal scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36385/08]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the locations at which the €120 million to provide services for a growing and aging population will be allocated and spent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36386/08]

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: It is not rubbish.

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Many people have questioned why I might have changed my stance on this issue. After seven years of universal provision of the medical card for over 70s, what was originally a political stroke has proven to be a serious social and public health gain for all the people in that age group. This has been one of the most important debates in this House in many years and I am honoured to be part...

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: An additional €100 million or €200 million from that source would not have gone astray. Instead, however, the Government went after the elderly whom it perceived as the soft option. This was a lazy budget, but its laziness reveals the true face of the Government. It is a Government that talks about protecting the elderly, the vulnerable and the young but let us look at what it does. It...

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: This is the Government whose meanness will result in the terminally ill, who were always entitled to a medical card heretofore, having to undergo a means test, with many of them likely to fail that test. Will we now have a situation where a 75 year old man lying on his deathbed must wrestle with his conscience as to whether he should give up his medical card or not, with the Minister for...

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Fine Gael believes in universal health care for all. We will strive to achieve that through our policy commission. Our neighbours across the water were able to introduce it in 1948, despite having been brought to their knees by a world war that lasted six years. The bottom line is that the trust is broken. Once the principle of universal provision is gone, the Minister can reduce...

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: I did my job.

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: The oft-promised fair deal legislation has recently been published. When will it come before the House? Will the Tánaiste ensure we will have sufficient time to debate it and get it into law before Christmas as the elderly have been dealt a number of cruel blows by the Government recently and the last thing they need is a further delay in this matter. When will the health information Bill...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Will the Tánaiste not confirm the assertion of her Minister of State on "Prime Time" that this will be index-linked?

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Is that the Tánaiste's answer? She left her Minister of State out to dry.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a media report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35401/08]

Written Answers — Health Service Funding: Health Service Funding (21 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the funding for a special needs assistant in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35432/08]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (21 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 255: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) has not been offered a home care package or a suitable nursing home place; if a care package will be supplied to aid their family in taking that responsibility; if she will look on this request favourably; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35456/08]

Medical Cards: Motion (21 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: I move: That Dáil Éireann demands the immediate reversal of the Government decision to withdraw the automatic entitlement to a medical card from citizens aged over 70 years. I wish to share time with Deputies Shatter, McCormack, Naughten, Breen, Feighan, O'Mahony, Sheehan, Bannon, Sheahan, Deenihan and Coveney.