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- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024 could have several impacts on the ordinary people. It is the ordinary people we must try to protect here. I have to declare I have been in and out of hospital a lot lately, both public and private. I am lucky to have the private. As Deputy Berry says, the inflationary costs and the increases in health insurance are just astronomical. Depending...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: It looks as though we will have a good deal of agreement on support for this legislation. We have spoken about the need for amendments but there has been some failure. As an example, yesterday I visited Clan na Gael's GAA club near Cox's Demesne in Dundalk, where there was a group called Maxi's Law, which is named after the unfortunate death by suicide of Mark “Maxi” Kavanagh,...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: "Laya profits soar to €36.55 million". That was a headline in the newspapers earlier this year. Its profits were up by €14 million. For AXA, I do not have the figure for its profits, but it had €2 billion coming in from premiums. It has 30% of the Irish market, while Laya has 28%, and I think AXA is now underwriting Laya premiums. This is big business and big...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Cathal Crowe is next.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: My apologies, I thought I was the speaker after next. I was tuned into something different. My sincerest apologies.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: So did I but my monitor is telling me something else now.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Cathal Crowe: A Cheann Comhairle, thanks for calling me to speak. Like other Deputies I welcome the Bill. This is one of those pieces of legislation each year that is up there with the Social Welfare Bill and the Finance Bill. It is very important. It needs to go through the Houses. It is about ensuring that older people in society will end up with insurance cover, that there is risk equalisation,...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Duncan Smith: The Labour Party will be supporting this legislation, as we have previously. Risk equalisation, which the Bill provides for annually, ensures costs will be constant across a lifespan for an individual. It seeks to ensure that, where possible, age, gender and health status will not influence the cost of an insurance product. Let me be clear, though. Our support for this Bill is not an...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: This is the annual practice of committing to the provisions of this legislation relating to the private health insurance market to provide for community rating and risk equalisation. It is a technical measure. In the context of a private health insurance market, it makes sense not to have cherry-picking by some of the newer entrants into the market or any kind of marketing to attract...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: This is an annual Bill to review the risk equalisation mechanism that supports the community-based health service insurance market. It revises the stamp duty levy on policies and the risk equalisation credits payable to insurers for 2025. Risk equalisation as a principle ensures that costs are constant across the lifespan of the individual. It seeks to ensure, where possible, that age,...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This is an annual technical Bill regarding health insurance. However, there is a crucial difference this year in that I propose to make amendments to the Bill in the House in the coming hour or two which will create the legal framework for the provision of free hormone replacement therapy in Ireland for the first time. We are liberally...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: A Theachta, very quickly please. Tá an t-am caite-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: Sure.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: -----and we need to give the Taoiseach time to reply.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: In the long run, the answer is a public childcare system.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: We need to give the Taoiseach an opportunity to answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: In the short term, can there be an intervention here in terms of either mediation with the GAA club to allow a reopening or the provision of an alternative location?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: I call Deputy Conway-Walsh for the final supplementary question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Go raibh maith agat. I wish to raise the lack of classes for autistic children in County Mayo. I have one case where a parent is looking for a school place for next year and she has been told it is not possible. This parent and other parents will be forced to take cases in the High Court to try to get places for their children. I ask the Taoiseach to please look at what is happening in...