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Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I thank the Minister's officials for their offer to brief us on the Bill owing to the timeframe between publication and today's debate. The shortage of non-consultant hospital doctors has been a problem for some years because of structural issues with the provision of health care here. We have been slow to address the issue over the years....

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Deputy. We try to be constructive.

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: This section deals with the setting of criteria for the assessment of applications for registration in the supervised division. Deputy Fleming mentioned proper assessment and examination in specialties, but there was no mention of Garda vetting. Is there an exemption for the medical profession, or are other checks made in that context?

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (7 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the homecare package in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [19343/11]

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: And then denied it.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: It will be a Band-Aid station. That is all.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: Shameful.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: It was the noise level of the Taoiseach's colleagues.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: Does the CMO stand over those figures?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: It is what you promised.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: Is that the same for everybody?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: Why is it that Fianna Fáil speakers are interrupted all the time?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: What about poor old Pat Cox? What you did to him was terrible.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: A decent lad from Limerick. His career has been destroyed and his integrity is in tatters.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: It is frustration on our behalf.

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: Last week on the Order of Business the Taoiseach said on five occasions that the Government was preparing legislation to abolish the board of the HSE, but the programme for Government states clearly on page 6 that the HSE would cease to exist. Will the Taoiseach clarify whether there are two separate pieces of legislation, one to abolish the board and the other to deal with the impact of...

Written Answers — Child Welfare and Protection: Child Welfare and Protection (12 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her response to the 2010 annual report of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church which highlighted a lack of co-operation by some Catholic dioceses with the internal review of child protection practices; and the action she will take to ensure that there is full co-operation with the work of this...

Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the Minister's commitment to the enactment of this legislation. Female genital mutilation is an internationally recognised human rights violation of women and girls. The practice has been strongly denounced by the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Population Fund and other international medical and health organisations as a violation of numerous human rights treaties...

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Billy Kelleher: Has the Government given any consideration to introducing appropriate legislation to deal with the potential extradition of Irish citizens to the United States? The Tánaiste might be aware that Sean Garland's case is before the High Court. Will legislation be required in the event of the case being decided?