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- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I have spent many hours discussing it in committee with Deputy Buttimer.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The proposal was blown out of the water by the Ministers for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputies Coveney, Deenihan and Varadkar, respectively.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (25 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he has received any complaints about inaction from the Health Service Executive from a company (details supplied) in County Mayo that recycles medical equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40406/12]
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: There were no wonderful ideas coming from the other side of the House when we were in government.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister was slapped down by unions last week.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I would like to raise three matters. First, when will the Dolphin report on the children's hospital be published? Obviously, it is very important. We would like to have an open debate to make sure all elements of the decision-making process are transparent, which was not the case when decisions were being made about primary care centres. Second, when will the HSE governance Bill be...
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Peace between the warring parties is needed if we are to get some semblance of normality back to the functioning of the Department of Health.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I know that. When is it expected to be taken in the Dáil?
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: There were no wonderful ideas coming from the other side of the House when we were in government.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister was slapped down by unions last week.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I would like to raise three matters. First, when will the Dolphin report on the children's hospital be published? Obviously, it is very important. We would like to have an open debate to make sure all elements of the decision-making process are transparent, which was not the case when decisions were being made about primary care centres. Second, when will the HSE governance Bill be...
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Peace between the warring parties is needed if we are to get some semblance of normality back to the functioning of the Department of Health.
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I know that. When is it expected to be taken in the Dáil?
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. This is an historic occasion because we hope to enshrine the rights of children in the Constitution, and I thank the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, for giving the people the opportunity to express their wishes in a referendum. There is unity of purpose in the House with regard to the broad thrust of the amendment and my words should be taken as...
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations Issues (27 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this issue in order to clarify exactly what was agreed at the Labour Relations Commission recently. Obviously, we have all been for some time awaiting a conclusion to the discussions that were going on in the background. In recent weeks, the Minister said that, after losing patience with the progress that was being made in...
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations Issues (27 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for his reply. Is he confident that the full range of measures he says have been agreed with the IHCA and the IMO within the terms of the LRC's recommendations will begin to be implemented from 1 October onwards and that savings will start accruing immediately? Another issue of concern, about which I asked some parliamentary questions some time ago, is that of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (27 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason that two primary care centres in Swords and Balbriggan, County Dublin were added to the list of 35 primary care centres published by the Health Service Executive in July; the person who made the decision to add these two centres; the criteria for adding them and if different criteria was used compared to the criteria used for the original 20 on the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (27 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for his reply. Two weeks ago, the then Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, made a statement in the Dáil. There were two items of interest in that statement, one being the omission of any support for the Minister in the motion of confidence he faced. She did not mention the Minister for Health by name or by office in any part of her contribution. The other key...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (27 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Would the Minister not agree that to do that there must be a transparent and open process that should be free from any form of interference, even alleged interference? I wondered at the time why a Minister of State would come into the Chamber, stand up and state that she had concerns and that the public had a right to ensure the process was carried out in an open and transparent manner,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (27 Sep 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Ultimately, four centres were identified, two of which were in the Minister's constituency, one in Kilkenny and one in Ballaghaderreen. What type of criteria were used? Did the Minister run this by his Cabinet colleagues? Some of those colleagues stated clearly that he had not. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, said recently on television that this could be...