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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: An independent needs analysis, health impact assessment, HIA, etc.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: What is the price? If I were to raise finance, build, fund and staff a hospital, offering a suite of services to an insurer, it should in theory or practice drive down costs for an insurer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Nobody would be in the hospital unless they should be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Some things are more equal than others.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: What if a reduced suite of costs is offered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The basis should not be the number of beds but the cost of the bed and treatments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Does that relate to consultants and doctors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Will consultants or others in the health system put a patient into a bed because it is there? This is very important. Consultants have told me that if we go down the route of universal health insurance and hospital groupings, there will be an inducement to give people treatments they do not necessarily need because they will receive funding for it. We should be honest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: It is a critical part of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: It is a key issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: We should establish what is the issue. The people before us are involved in the business. I attended conferences recently and I heard similar comments about the existence of supplier-induced demand. Some people may be given treatments they may not need or could do without because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: That is what I am led to believe can happen in the industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Before I ask my questions, it is important that we put on the record of the House our heartfelt sympathy for the Black family. Yvonne Black has been widowed and two young children have had their father taken from them by a heinous, callous crime. It behoves everyone in the House to reject out of hand the flawed philosophy of violence and murder, as it sullies the Irish flag and rejects the...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I expected the Taoiseach, and I expect all other political leaders, to condemn out of hand the murder of David Black. I welcome the Taoiseach's comments. I know this is cold comfort to Yvonne and her family. On the issue of the children's hospital, we have concerns. Philanthropy is a way to fund it and the sale of national lottery licence is another...
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The appalling murder of the prison officer, Mr. David Black, comes after continued monitoring of the activities of dissident republicans in Northern Ireland. In recent days we have seen protests outside PSNI headquarters by several senior members of Sinn Féin and members of the INLA regarding concerns about politically motivated arrests. Is it not time, in these circumstances, for a...
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2012)
Billy Kelleher: -----particularly given that its investigation involved the murder of a man in 2005, seven years after the Irish people took ownership of the situation in this country in the context of the Good Friday Agreement. Can we have a substantial debate on the issue of policing and the general upsurge in dissident violence in the North?
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I could brief Deputy Adams on a few issues down here.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (6 Nov 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the spend to date in 2012 on marine works allocated funding by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48273/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (6 Nov 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation made in each of the past five years to local authorities for marine harbours and piers and coastal protection works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48272/12]