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Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The healthcare workers are great.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Is it better across the board? It is not. Our healthcare workers have brought waiting times in this country down from over 13 months to seven months and we are going towards the agreed Sláintecare target that no one waits more than ten to 12 weeks but, apparently, that is irrelevant. Apparently according to Deputy Boyd Barrett, all of the progress that our healthcare workers are...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Last year.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, and we could not come up with a response to that in a year

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I am sure it is being looked at.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why people are driven into the private health insurance market. People make money out of it but it perpetuates an unfair two-tier system and perpetuates the problems in the public health system.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Boyd Barrett, your contributions are always colourful but you made a comment earlier about Mr. Goodman when you talked about moving from animal meat to human meat. I do not think that type of comment is appropriate.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is dehumanising both of the people who received treatment in the hospital and of the gentleman you referred to. Will you withdraw that comment?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Out of deference to your good self, a Cheann Comhairle, I will do that.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I appreciate that.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Cathal Berry: I very much welcome the opportunity to make some brief comments on behalf of the Regional Group on the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024. The Minister and I have interacted over the last four and a half years on health issues in this Chamber and, indeed, in the Convention Centre, so he knows my views. Very similar to, I would say, most Deputies in this Chamber, we are in favour of a...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Does the Deputy know something we do not know?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Cathal Berry: I have brought a number of cases to the Minister's attention over the past four and a half years and I thank him for following up on them. It is hugely appreciated, especially by the patients. I remember there was quite a specialised drug a particular patient in Newbridge was looking for and it has had a transformative effect of their lives. I very much appreciate that as well. I thank...

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.