Mitchell, GayThursday, 29 November 2001 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31.
I seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter of national importance: the scandalous failure of the Government to extend eligibility to medical cards...
My reference to quality and fairness was not aimed at the Chair. I hope you did not misunderstand, Sir. It was aimed at the Minister.
Order of Business.
The Tánaiste should ask the poor woman in Kildare who cannot afford to go to a doctor.
Private Notice Questions. - Medical Card Cover.
asked the Minister for Health and Children to make a statement on his decision to deny people on low income the medical card.
I would say the Minister has about 12 weeks.
Does the Minister agree that the means announcement made yesterday, two days after the launch with grandiose fanfare of the so-called health strategy called Quality and Fairness, nails the lie to that...
The people who cannot afford the hospital beds have no choice.
The Minister did a mean thing.
Is there any chance the Minister would answer the question?
That is not what the Minister said.
The Minister is misleading the House.
Under the agreement between the Government and the IMO, up to 40% of the population can be covered for medical cards. Forty per cent of the population is currently approximately 1.6 million people, o...
It is because the Minister has frozen the limits.
Written Answers. - Medical Cards.
Asked the minister: if a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6W; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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