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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: All the way up the 17,000 layers in this project.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: I congratulate my fellow mid-west Deputy on this Bill. It is an issue he fundamentally believes in as a practising doctor. The Labour Party will support his Bill on the basis that we should allow it go forward to the next Stage for discussion and to see where we can go with it. As drafted, it is not in any way perfect. I presume the Deputy understands that but I fundamentally agree with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 116. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the review by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was leaked before all participating women were informed; and the steps he will take regarding same. [48824/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (26 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 110. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to relieve the overcrowding in University Hospital Limerick for winter 2020. [48825/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 117. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to build a new elderly care home in Roscrea, County Tipperary, to replace the Dean Maxwell home. [48826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (26 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied); when the application will be finalised; if the application will be expedited in view of the recent Court of Appeal judgment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48574/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (26 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 270. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Health Insurance Act 2018; when it will be updated for risk and price equalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48589/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 283. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of specialist Parkinson's disease nurses nationally in order to have a specialist nurse in each county (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48663/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: There was a Labour Court recommendation in 2008 on a pension scheme for community employment, CE, scheme supervisors. I think the Tánaiste is well aware of it. A process was established in 2015 following discussions with SIPTU and Fórsa to bring the issue to a satisfactory conclusion. As Minister, I was party to that, and with the assistance of Deputy Brendan Howlin, we allowed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: What the Tánaiste has said emphasises what I said previously. He said that in the short to medium term we will move across to Sláintecare. I spent 11 months on Sláintecare. The Tánaiste would not be supporting the building of a new private hospital in Swords if he believed in what he said. We are practising health apartheid in this country as far as I am concerned. In...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: There are well over 1,000 for-profit hospital beds in this country. Advertisements on the radio constantly push private hospitals and clinics, claiming “because you deserve better”. These ads turn my stomach. Who exactly deserves better? Do people with money for private healthcare deserve better than low-paid workers or single parents? The ads claim these hospitals and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: Only the other day, a former health Minister, Senator James Reilly, was touting the development of a €50 million private hospital in Fingal which will charge the HSE to deliver public services. He was also happy to confirm that the Taoiseach met the developers and was happy to do so. When did this happen? The Taoiseach needs to explain the logic behind this. There is a false...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: There is a bigger issue there, relating to the group of companies under CIÉ.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: We should write to the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: May I make one general point while we are on the topic? I believe this whole area is in the wrong Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: In the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. I have been saying that for seven or eight years.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: To have the Department of Education and Skills dealing with transport issues-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection does not deal with the transport issues of elderly people.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: More importantly, what was it used for then?