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Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Review (5 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he has a date for the completion of the review of orthodontics by the Health Service Executive; the timeframe he anticipates it will take to implement the recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11443/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Expenditure (5 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of contractors employed by the Health Service Executive in receipt of fees of between €50,000 and €100,000, between €100,000 and €200,000, between €200,000 and €300,000, between €300,000 and €400,000; the number of contractors in receipt of fees of more than...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Tests (5 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the cost of driving test fees from 2000 to 2012. [11354/13]

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thank all Members who contributed to the debate and for their viewpoints on this issue. Fianna Fáil tabled this motion because we believe the cost of private health insurance is a problem. There is no doubt but that families are finding it difficult to maintain health cover or are cancelling their policies. We can argue about the current state of the economy and how we got there but...

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: -----other proposals with regard to full cost charge for patients being treated in public beds. Let us park the argument about the shortage of money, the inability of the Minister for Health to balance last year's books and his having to obtain a loan from the health insurance companies to tide him over and sort out overdrafts for hospitals. The real reason the Government is proposing to...

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: -----but we still do not know what the Minister proposes. Fine Gael and the Labour Party had a great debate about whether it would be a social insurance model and now we find it will be a private universal health care model. This is what seems to be emanating. Officials have gone to Germany and the United States and done the rounds.

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: We will publish a policy document, which will be fair and equitable and will not be an amalgam of two parties with varying views and pre-election promises cobbled together in a programme for Government. We will publish something fair and equitable and based on people being able to access health care at the point of need without hindrance. In the meantime, what the Government is doing in its...

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Government is going into its third year and in six months time it will be halfway through its mandate.

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Perhaps I would do as well as the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The Government will not have published universal health insurance proposals until halfway through the mandated term.

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Can we see them?

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I am speaking about the actual details.

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Yes I did, but I am speaking about the actual details-----

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: -----of the document in terms of what exactly the proposal will be. The document does not contain this and the Minister of State and the Minister know this. It contains only the broad parameters. The Minister spoke about 4% of the overall number, but this 4% comprises families who can no longer afford private health insurance and 200 people a day are dropping out. The Minister for...

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It is an awful lot of money.

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I hope the Deputy was listening as opposed to watching. There is now a cohort of people in this country who are finding it very difficult to live on a daily basis, pay bills, fund themselves, put their children through school and all that goes with it.

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: They are primarily people on the lower pay scale. The budget that was passed last year, for example, was a direct attack on people on lower rates of pay. No effort was made by this Government to help them. This was confirmed by the ESRI which said that the last two budgets were regressive. In other words, those who had least paid most. The Minister knows that Labour should have insisted...

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Labour Party threatened to walk out of Government because the universal social charge was not increased, yet they walked back in and it still has not been increased, so what has changed? I commend this motion to the House. I ask the Government to consider our proposals in full and, more important, to understand the pressure that families are under on a daily basis in trying to retain...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation Provision (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that he has made in setting out a timeframe for the reform of the court structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11669/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Medicinal Products (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details on the procedure for stock control and stock taking of high tech drugs that are paid for by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11783/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Medicinal Products (6 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to pharmacists per patient to dispense high tech drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11790/13]