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Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: As much rope as the Tánaiste wishes.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Shame.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Some 125,000 people over the age of 70 will not have a medical card. That is the reality.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not received the funds required for their rehabilitation programme. [35092/08]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the steering committee on vaccination compensation will report. [35093/08]

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: It is not in existence.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: It was not working when I rang it earlier today.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: What about the health levy?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Well done. This must be one of the worst budgets in living memory. Not only has the Minister, Deputy Lenihan, left the legacy of the Lenihan levy, but he will be long remembered as the man who, along with the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, who took the medical card off sick, old, frail and terminally ill pensioners. The stark fact is that 139,000 people qualified for...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Yesterday, at a press conference, the Minister for Health and Children mentioned that people over the age of 70 visit the doctor four times a year, on average. I cannot find any evidence to support this proposition. I do not know how the Minister, Deputy Harney, gets her figures. My figures indicate that people over the age of 70 tend to visit the doctor between ten and 12 times a year....

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: I welcome the Tánaiste to the debate, even if she is late.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: People will have to pay the 2% health levy, the 1% Lenihan levy, doctors' fees and medicine expenses of €100 a month, or €1,200 a year. They will have to pay €100 each time they go to an accident and emergency department. They have lost their VHI benefits. The nursing home tax break has been reduced from €20,000 to €10,000. They have to pay for chiropody, occupational therapy...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: The facts speak for themselves. We are bailing out the banks, but the Government is bailing on the elderly and their families.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: No, but the Government is confused. This is symptomatic of it.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: It will make a lot of sense to those whose medical cards will be cut. Health cuts hurt the old, the sick and the disabled. Is that right? Where did we hear it before?

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: VHI covers €25——

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: Do that, by all means.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: That was without means testing. Since that time, for seven years——

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: For seven years people have had these cards. Now, the Government takes them away from pensioners and wants to tax them.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

James Reilly: By the Government.