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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Appointments (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the vacancy on the Options Board; if he will outline the process that is being undertaken to fill this post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55383/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Appointments (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if it is his intention to fill the two seats on the Health and Social Care Professionals Board; if so, if he will outline the process that is being undertaken to fill these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55384/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Appointments (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council has not had its seventeen members replaced since June; if he will outline his plans for the council and if he intends to replace the members, the process that is being undertaken to fill these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55385/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Appointments (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the intake of the twenty two new members that were due to be introduced to the Nursing and Midwifery Board; if he intends to fill these posts, if he will outline the process that is being undertaken to fill them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55386/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in the roll-out of the national retinopathy screening programme which was due to commence screening in the last quarter of 2012; if he will announce the results of the programme's tendering process; if he will indicate when patients may now expect to receive notice of screening appointments; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been refused a medical card; if he will investigate the case with a view to an immediate reversal of the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55574/12]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: I wish the Minister and his colleagues from the HSE and the Department a happy Christmas. We are here because at the same time last year we pointed out that there were deficiencies in the budget arithmetic. I do not know how the Minister came to those conclusions, but he did and it was obvious from as early as March last that the budget was in rag order and was deficient in terms of trying...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: They are silencing Deputy McNamara and Deputy Colm Keaveney.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: That is nonsense. Deputies everywhere want to speak on this issue.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: At least I was willing to stand up and defend it, unlike others who are running away.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: I intend to repeat some of what I said last evening during the debate on the motion of no confidence in the Government tabled by Sinn Féin. It is incredible that, in the light of what has been said since the budget was introduced, Ministers and Government Deputies do not appear to understand why there is so much palpable anger among the people. The reason for this anger is that neither...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a claim under the insolvency payment scheme will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55697/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Croke Park Agreement (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the details of his proposed pay related savings of €308 million in 2013; the way this saving will be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55698/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Expenditure (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed saving of €160 million in the cost of drugs and other prescribed items is a gross or a net figure; the estimate for the cost of new drugs being prescribed in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55699/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the €60 million savings on the Department Vote announced in the Expenditure Report 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55700/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the way he will make €20 million savings in procurement in 2013; the procurement savings that have been made to date in 2012; the anticipated outturn for procurement savings in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55701/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Application Numbers (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional medical cards he anticipates being granted in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55707/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Application Numbers (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional general practitioner cards he anticipates being granted in 2013, not including those over 70 years who are losing the automatic entitlement to a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55708/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged over 70 years that will lose their entitlement to a medical card in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55709/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cost (12 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the way the Programme for Government pledge to reduce the costs of delivering private healthcare will be fulfilled through the health budget for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55710/12]