John Kelly (Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is unbelievable. The end result is that the ordinary Joe Soap with private health insurance will pay for the health service in the future. We need to address that, and that is the reason we must have a debate on it in this House.

I call on the Leader to see if we can get clarity from the Minister for Health on what we are doing about the mobility allowance. The Ombudsman found we were illegally ensuring that people over the age of 66 who were the most in need of the allowance were being deprived of it by virtue of their age. I would appreciate it if the Leader could have that question put to the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and perhaps at some stage in the future when he comes into the House he might have answers for us on it.