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- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Timmy Dooley: ...not to participate. That will allow that fear to be a daily fear - not just the fear of illness, but the fear of being unable to pay if a family member falls ill. It is not good enough for Deputy Buttimer or any other Member to come in here and give us a history lesson as they regularly do. That is fine when we are having general banter and just tossing political jibes across the House....
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Dara Calleary: ...health insurance. Instead, the advice coming from the Government benches is to shop around. Like Marie Antoinette, those who sit on the benches opposite suggest those who shop around will find it. As, in fairness, Deputy Buttimer stated, it is difficult to shop around when there are tens of plans available. It is utterly confusing and nobody seems in a position to explain to the...
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Dara Calleary: Deputy Buttimer should not get caught in a trap.
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not getting caught at all. Members opposite forget that we must never allow the Irish people to forget that Fianna Fáil led us to where we are today. That will be Deputy Dooley's legacy for eternity.
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Deputy Buttimer has the opportunity to have a legacy now.
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We are doing it. There has been reform of the health system. I pay tribute to those who work in our health system. We have seen better care and more changes. I will give Deputy Browne some examples of the changes because I know he wants to hear them.
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
John Browne: I do not want to hear anything from Deputy Buttimer.
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Mercy Hospital in Cork now has a new admissions procedure so people can come in for an operation and leave the same day. The South Infirmary Victoria Hospital has reduced the length of stay for knee and hip replacements and now has a pain management unit. This was unheard of previously. Cork University Hospital has a new assessment unit and 85 new beds were opened there and in the...
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Brendan Smith: ...a newspaper interview in January, spoke of his concerns about VHI's cost base but less than two weeks later VHI announced a further 6% premium rise, the fifth increase in two years - a point that Deputy Buttimer might note. Particular attention must be paid to VHI as it is the only beneficiary of a very substantial levy. That is understandable because it has the vast majority of older...
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important motion. It is extraordinary that in two years Fianna Fáil is returning to form. It has abdicated its responsibility and forgotten it was in Government. It never took the Department of Health and Children as it left it to Ms Mary Harney. It did not have the courage to take it. Let me cast the minds of the Members opposite...