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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is the first time I ever said this and I do a lot of committee work but I do not think there was anything I disagreed with. In this Oireachtas there are two health committees, the normal health committee chaired by Deputy Harty and this committee under the chairmanship of Deputy Shortall. This is a once in a generation, possibly once in a...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I am very much of the opinion we will have to move to salaried GP contracts. I read the opening statement and what the witnesses have said on this. There are a number of reasons for the move. We have gaps throughout the country. I have read what the witnesses stated on salaried GPs and independent contractors versus the corporate...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Three parts or two parts?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Dr. McGarry admits that there are areas where we will probably have to put in salaried GPs.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: How does he define the ripple?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I know what Dr. McGarry is saying but I do not accept it. Somebody will have to bite this bullet and say these are the conditions where it has to be put in or it may not be put in.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: It sounds like Dr. McGarry is hedging his bets.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: It is not because Dr. McGarry is not defining it. Could he define it, please?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: What happens if the person is in rural Clare?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Are they prioritised in order?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: Pay is the fourth reason.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I am sharing my time with Deputy Jan O'Sullivan. The Labour Party will be supporting this legislation to bring about a referendum on repealing the eighth amendment of the Constitution. The very introduction of the eighth amendment was opposed by the Labour Party in 1983. We were very much alone at that time. The Constitution was never the place for such a proposal. Unfortunately, our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used in assessing a medical card application for a patient with motor neurone disease; if a medical card for a patient with motor neurone disease is automatically granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31601/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (25 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when arrangements will be made for equal provision for all forms of child care, with particular reference to stay-at-home parents. [31596/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (20 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug Orkambi is not being made available to cystic fibrosis patients here (details supplied). [31434/16]

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I was surprised, but delighted, to hear the Minister say there will be increased funding for the national ambulance service. Why has a review of the role of advanced paramedics as part of the national ambulance service in the mid-west been announced? This has been confirmed by the ambulance service. There have been also been meetings about it, including one in Tipperary. I presume that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Minister should make them play their role. He said it is not an ideological debate but I beg to differ. It is an ideological debate. When we had to provide emergency measures to socialise the debts of banks a number of years ago, we did so. I disagreed with it and voted against it, unlike others in this Chamber.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: We have an issue here because we have to socialise the dearth of infrastructure when it comes to emergency departments and we need to do it immediately because people are going to die on trolleys if this is not done. Despite all the Minister's measures, we will not have the immediate capacity that we need in emergency departments if he does not take this proposed measure. There is an issue...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: We could do it in 48 hours a few years ago.