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The Referendum Commission for the two referendums has been set up and their website includes some pretty clear advice on what the marriage equality referendum is about and what changes if it's passed:

The Adoption Act obliges adoption services and the Adoption Authority to make decisions with the child's best interests and welfare as the paramount considerations. That will continue to be the case no matter which way the referendum goes. The only difference marriage makes to the adoption...

Because waiting periods are a standard feature with all insurers for anyone without previous health insurance. Whether you're coming from a country with a 1st class health system, or you're born and raised in Ireland, you won't have immediate cover unless you've had previous health insurance...

Sorry, but I don't understand the context of the question. There's no requirement to have held cover in another country for someone to take out health insurance in Ireland. Insurers might recognise time spent with international health insurers and reduce waiting periods accordingly, but...

Watch TV3 or 3e for half an hour in the evenings, and you'll never hear the end of them :D

That's pretty much right. If you have no breaks in your cover, or if any break in your cover is 13 weeks or less, then health insurers are obliged to recognise the time spent with previous Irish health insurers. So in your example, your VHI could finish at the start of June, and joining...

I think very few consultants work exclusively in the private sector, so have you checked if the consultant you were referred to takes public patients as well?

Here's a list of all plans, ordered by price - [broken link removed].

May I ask what your GP referred you to the Beacon for? i.e. was it a consultant's appointment or a lab test or a scan or the like?

Just checking, is that €430 the shortfall you have to pay to the hospital? Because co-incidentally, the price difference between HM Starter and Essential First is also €430 (€915 vs €485). So, in this circumstance, Essential First would be better because you won't also have the €125 excess that...

There aren't any private children's hospitals, and there are very few private beds in the public children's hospitals, but children can be admitted as private patients to general public and private hospitals for more routine operations for gromits, tonsils, appendix, etc. I'm not trying to...

On a general note, health insurers will only pay for an overnight stay if there's a clinical reason that such a stay is necessary. It helps keep their costs down because the temptation exists for hospitals and doctors to admit patients that don't require admission, just so they can claim off a...

Respectfully, that's a far cry from saying that the OP has no right to get a copy of the file, as you originally stated. It's a different matter if there's actually nothing IN the file.

I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but according to the Data Protection Commissioner's website (link in my previous post): There are some exceptions ([broken link removed]), but nothing that indicates a person has to be involved in a legal case to gain access to information.

I haven't asked, but the Data Protection Commissioner's website says you can only be charged a maximum of €6.35. See here - [broken link removed]. FYI, any request would be under the Data Protection Acts. The Freedom of Information Acts primarily apply to Government departments, local...

Revenue agreed this with the health insurers a number of years ago to reduce the amount of paper they deal with. It's a win-win for the insurers and Revenue: insurers don't have the administrative costs of returning everyone's receipts, and any paper based claims submitted to Revenue only...

I haven't made a claim for this myself, but the only benefit for travel costs is for a parent accompanying a child who is in hospital. Even then, it's limited to public transport, taxi, hackney or car parking charges and the benefit isn't available on all plans. You can give it a shot, but I...

And if €679 is the discounted price, then €755 is definitely the correct (current) individual price.

Under open enrolment, health insurers can't charge different prices to different people for the same plan, outside of a group discount and child/student rates. It's possible that the €755 includes the maximum 10% discount for a particular company, but even then that would make the individual...

Listen, just put my Amazon and Bookdepository packages back and we'll say nothing more, alright?