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Written Answers — Department of Health: Long Stay Residential Units (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the Health Service Executive warning within its National Operational Plan 2013 (details supplied); the planning he is undertaking for the significant growth in requirement for long-term residential care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16319/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long Stay Residential Units (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeframe in respect of the finalisation and publication of the Health Service Executive Review of Public Nursing Home Units; in the interest of openness and transparency, if he will commit to publishing the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16322/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a specific timeframe and commitment in respect of when updated cost of care figures for public nursing home units will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16320/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a lack of transparency in respect of the cost of care under the nursing home support scheme in respect of public nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16321/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Drug Trials (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out clinical trials of low dose Naltrexone for the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16400/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered adding low dose Naltrexone to the long term illness and GMS card schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16401/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the date at which the top 20 most expensive medicines/medical molecules, determined by cost to the Exchequer, will become fully interchangeable as provided under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medicines) Bill 2012; if he will confirm that all 20 such medicines will be fully interchangeable from the same date; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the expected monetary savings which will result from the introduction of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medicines) Bill 2012 in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17326/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has set targets for increasing generic substitutions within the medicines market here; if so, what these targets are; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17327/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (16 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he anticipates any reduction in spending on medicines from the enactment of the forthcoming Health Information Bill; if so, when he intends to publish the bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17328/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Guidance Counsellors (17 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any plans to review the cuts in guidance counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17537/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change school enrolment practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17538/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (17 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recommend that the Health Service Executive provide funding for Pirfenidone, a drug approved by the European Medicines Agency in February 2011 and also approved on 21 March 2013 by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, the health technology appraisal body in England and Wales, for the treatment of mild to moderate Idiopathic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Report (17 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health when he is going to make the Walsh Report on Symphysiotomy available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17991/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (18 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome everybody here. I found the presentations informative and inspiring. To be truthful, when I have read about a living donor I wondered how I would respond if my brother looked me in the eye and said "Bill, it's life or death for me". I admire the people who have donated. Many of us would probably find it hard to make such a judgment call. With regard to the broader issue, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (18 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: When my wife was having our children in the labour ward I was down the corridor. I opted out of my family responsibilities at that time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (18 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It is incredible that people generously donate their organs and I am not just saying that because the donors are present. I read a newspaper article published in the Irish Examiner about a family in Kilcully, White's Cross, County Cork. I do know what I would do if asked to donate. I thank everybody for coming here. People hold varying views on organ donation but they must not damage the...

Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the latest uptake with regard to the micro enterprise fund; the number of jobs that have been supported by this investment to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18668/13]

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion, which is timely in light of what happened last week. It is fair, rational and well thought-out. It underpins something that is critically important in the overall context of public sector reform. Real reform should involve more than paying reduced salaries to public and civil servants. The only way for real reform to come about is by...

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Apr 2013)

Billy Kelleher: And supported and encouraged.