Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussion, meetings or contact she has had with a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37815/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Following the Supreme Court finding that the 2003 Risk Equalisation Scheme was ultra vires, I initiated a consultative process on the implications of the decision and on the measures that might be taken to protect the principle of community rating. In the course of this process, I and officials of my Department have held meetings with the Health Insurance Authority, VHI, Quinn Insurance and Hibernian Health. Given the commercial sensitivity of those discussions, I do not propose to make any further comment.