Results 3,441-3,460 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (19 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out a public consultation process on the opt-out organ donation system; if so, the timeframe for same;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39513/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (19 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that all of the processes and procedures have been put in place by him and the Health Service Executive to comply with the EU Directive 2010/53/EU which came into effect on 27 August; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39512/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (19 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he has brought forward his proposal to the Government for the draft of the Human Tissue Bill; if not, when will he do so; the length of time after that the formal drafting of the Bill will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39510/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (19 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Human Tissue Bill will introduce the opt-out organ donation system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39511/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (19 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out a public consultation process on the opt-out organ donation system; if so, the timeframe for same;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39513/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (19 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that all of the processes and procedures have been put in place by him and the Health Service Executive to comply with the EU Directive 2010/53/EU which came into effect on 27 August; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39512/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the procedure involved in closing a rent allowance claim either by the tenant or the landlord; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39677/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the budgetary constraints facing her Department, the action being taken to clamp down on tenants receiving rent allowance several weeks and in some cases months after they have left the rental property after notification has been given to the welfare officer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39678/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in cases where rent allowance claimants are found to have either failed to pay the rent allowance to their landlord or who are claiming money for property they no longer reside in, if they are made to repay the Department the money received and if any consequences are placed on future rent allowance applications; and if she will make a statement on...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of savings delivered each year as a result of medicines pricing agreements between the Health Service Executive and IPHA from 2006 to 2012 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39843/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the total savings realised from the Health Service Executive agreements with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association each year from 2006 to 2012 inclusive on off-patient and on-patient branded medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39844/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the form and means by which references pricing, as proposed in the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 currently before the Oireachtas, will operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39845/12]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-14: Discussion with Secretary General of Department of Health (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome Dr. McLoughlin and wish Mr. Tony O'Brien all the best as director general designate of the HSE. The health system is going through a transformative stage in terms of governance of the HSE; in effect, it is bringing it back closer to the Department. The HSE will be challenged with significant difficulties this year in terms of a further budget reduction of €700 million to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-14: Discussion with Secretary General of Department of Health (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Strategies are not much good without budgets. I am not being flippant but this is important in terms of the governance structures being put forward. Who will be responsible for formulating the budget for 2013 and who will be the accounting officer with responsibility for oversight of the spending of the budget? I do not understand the situation. Will it be Mr. Tony O'Brien or Dr. Ambrose...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-14: Discussion with Secretary General of Department of Health (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: May I refer briefly to a point I raised earlier? I did get a reply, but I am prompted by an idea that crossed my mind. I accept that acute hospitals are a stand-alone service. With regard to the small hospitals framework and the grouping of primary care and urgent care centres into hospital groups, is there a co-ordinated strategy between them all? Is there an integrated strategy? Who is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-14: Discussion with Secretary General of Department of Health (20 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Is an individual or a system responsible for this?
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: When will legislation on minimum pricing for alcohol come before the House? Until recently, a central plank of Government policy was that alcohol abuse would be tackled head on through minimum pricing. In view of what happened at the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park and what happens on our streets every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, will the Taoiseach indicate when the...
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: -----in the Department of Health between the Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall, and her senior Minister.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The matter I raise is related to the delivery of policy. The Minister of State has had her policy platform kicked out.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I seek clarity on whether minimum pricing for alcohol remains a Government commitment and priority.