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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Review (19 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the number under 70 years medical cards he expects to remove in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57233/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (20 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for taxi branding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57207/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector (20 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for aviation in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57203/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the assesment of needs in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork as laid down in the Disability Act of 2005 has not been met eight months after the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57381/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the waiting lists for assessment of needs under the Disability Act 2005 by county.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57382/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Positive Ageing Strategy (20 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health when the National Positive Aging Strategy will be presented to Cabinet and published in view of a recent commitment to publish before end 2012 and numerous previous commitments to present it to Cabinet and publish it in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57520/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Positive Ageing Strategy (20 Dec 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the failure to publish the National Positive Aging Strategy is resulting in poor policy decisions being taken across Departments that negatively impact upon older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57521/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. I will speak briefly, Chairman, because we want to accommodate as many members as possible. I would like to ask Professor Murphy whether a complaint about a doctor has ever been made to the Irish Medical Council by a colleague or another individual because he or she has refused to carry out a termination on foot of the X case, Article 40.3.3° or the Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: With regard to conscientious objection in the event of legislation being passed, terminations being provided and clarity being brought to bear, should that be made public? In other words, if a person has a conscientious objection to carrying out a termination, when would there be an obligation on the clinician to inform peers or the administration of that location? Would it be at the start...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. At the outset, I wish to make some observations and pose questions. Dr. Coulter Smith pointed out that he is concerned about the increased demand on maternity services. He earlier stated that they are demand-led and that he was concerned that legislation would result in additional pressure on maternity services. My question is in the context of the quoted figure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. In the context of the differing positions presented to us we will need to try to elucidate and get some further clarity. Professor O'Keane highlighted the issue that 130,000 women have travelled abroad to the United Kingdom since 1983 for terminations. Professor Casey said that suicidality, suicide ideation and suicide are reasonably rare and that suicide in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I have two questions, the first of which is to Mr. Niall Behan of the Irish Family Planning Association. With regard to the submission made about the services the IFPA provides in assisting people in the decision they make, we know this is a very complex area and that circumstances can arise in which a woman decides that, ultimately, a termination is most appropriate for herself. Listening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentations. My question relates to the ruling in the X case and the jurisprudence arising therefrom, as outlined by the witnesses. The issue of fatal foetal abnormalities is a very sensitive and emotive one. We have had presentations from women who had to travel to Britain to terminate a pregnancy where there was no potential viability at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. In 1983, the people's decision related to the life of the mother as opposed to her health. Subsequently, the X case introduced the issue of suicide. In recent days, experts with differing opinions have presented to us. Some were pro-choice, some were pro-life and, as one could contest, some were in the middle ground. They discussed the matters facing us as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: My questions are aimed primarily at Professor Binchy. The medical professionals and obstetricians said yesterday that they have sometimes had to refer women to England for terminations so that life-saving treatments could be continued upon their return. They were quite clear on that. They referred them to England because they were unsure of the position here. While there was no immediate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. The submission from the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference states: the report of the expert group did not present the full range of options available to Government and the Oireachtas on this issue. We believe the option of a further constitutional referendum on this issue should not be ruled out.What is the proposal underlying this statement? Is it to roll back on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. My first question is to all of them but I refer specifically to a reference in the submission by the Pro-Life Campaign to a survey of maternal deaths in the three Dublin maternity hospitals - the Rotunda, Holles Street and the Coombe - from 1980 to 2011, which found there were two maternal deaths by suicide out of a total of 680,000 live births, both of which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. We are dealing with the fall-out from the X case on foot of Article 40.3.3°. As such, our deliberations in terms of what the Legislature can or is willing to do are confined. Those questions will have to be decided by Members of the Oireachtas following the introduction of legislation from Government. On Article 40.3.3°, I assume the organisations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I record my party's appreciation of the Chairman's efforts in chairing the committee over the last three days. The hearings have been informative and have been carried out in a respectful way. That there are divergent, strongly held, passionate views on the matter is evident from the testimony of witnesses and comments of Members of the Oireachtas. While we box people into pro-life and...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I wish Members a happy new year. On the Bill, the Minister has outlined the technical reasons it must be brought forward, namely, the European Court judgment and the fact we were infringing the article with regard to free trade and all that flows from the mandatory minimum price. Therefore, I will not go into the detail of the Bill as the Minister has dealt with that and has highlighted why...