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- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No, the Deputy does not need to clarify anything.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I do. The Minister is rolling out figures. We are talking about our real experience in Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and elsewhere. I am not angry. I am just saying that it is unfair to have to listen to all about Dublin. The rest of Ireland deserves fair play.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: They came out of the hospital in Tralee today to protest. Why? It was because of the Minister's failure.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: It could not be getting better.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I ask the Deputies to respect the House and have a bit of order.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: We want the respect the people.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Exactly - let us respect the people. Let us respect the people in Kerry and everywhere else who are looking in at this Dáil sitting.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister does not respect them.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: They will not be terribly impressed by the shenanigans they are watching.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee (23 Oct 2024)
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 233(2), Standing Order 187 is modified to provide that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024, that it has the power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing subject matter of the Bill, in relation to:the Health Act 1970, to provide that HSE Guidelines on "ordinarily...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: We are talking about health insurance. The problem is that those paying health insurance are coming to ask me to take them to Northern Ireland for an operation because health insurance is no longer working for them. They are waiting lengthy periods of time, having paid huge money for health insurance every year. They have to pay upfront for operations and while there is partial...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: What the Deputy is saying is entirely false.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: Excuse me. There are a lot of things in health that the Minister knows more about than I do. In this case, however, the patients were paying €2,500 upfront and were getting €2,000 back, so it was costing about €500, and they were quite happy with that, although they would rather it was done locally. They are now getting €1,170 back, as I know because I am...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputies for their support of the Bill, which is greatly appreciated. I look forward to going to Committee Stage. In the time I have, I will address some of the other issues that colleagues raised. Whether I should or not, I am going to start with the contribution of Deputy Boyd Barrett. I listened to probably five minutes of the misinformation that Deputy Boyd Barrett brought...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I did not. I did not say that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: He sets himself up as the champion of our healthcare workers and he says that no progress is being made towards universal healthcare or Sláintecare.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I did say that.