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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract Issues (3 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 236. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify, by name, the hospitals where management has put in place roster arrangements to have consultants on duty on a 24 hour basis in specialties such as emergency medicine, neonatology, intensive care and obstetrics as provided in the agreement on work practice reforms brokered at the Labour Relations Commission in September 2012; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (3 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in the Health Service Executive currently being paid a salary on the basis of the grade of national director; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32469/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (3 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 238. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in the Health Service Executive actually serving as a national director and the number of staff who continue to be paid as a national director on a personal-to-holder ring-fenced basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32470/13]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to ask a question on the institutions that will be licensed under the legislation, an issue that I have raised before. What happens in the event that an institution adopts a policy of recruiting people who have a conscientious view of the legislation, resulting in the institution's having a diminished clinical capacity to carry out such medical procedures as may be required under the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I speak in a personal capacity because my party offered members a free vote. It was interesting to observe the Bill as it passed through the various Stages. The discussions on the heads of the Bill were very informative and assisted greatly in people's understanding of what the legislation was about. People still have strong views, as is quite evident in the Dáil. Report Stage will...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Fianna Fáil Party opposes this Bill for a number of reasons. It is clear from a cursory perusal of the programme for Government that it makes no reference to the measures being taken in the legislation. The proposals before run contrary to many of the claims and policies outlined in the programme for Government. While the Minister frequently states he has received a mandate to...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I will listen to that as well. However, if that is the Minister's stock-in-trade answer, then it is cold comfort to the thousands of families who are either contemplating dropping health insurance or having to reduce cover. If that is the only solution the Minister can find and the only answer he will give, then I genuinely hold out little hope. We are now in 2013, half way through the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: They were cut.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister promised he would.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister certainly has it.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister could not even get his own Deputies to come in to speak. There is not one from the Government side.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I mean there is no one to support the Minister.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: They might not all be here.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education Issues (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the part the implementation of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 will play in the early years strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32574/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Transgender Health Issues: Discussion (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. I have a number of questions I wish to pose for my own information rather than for any other reason. In the context of growing up in Ireland, has Ms Lacey noticed any particular changes in societal views in recent years? We are trying to build a more tolerant Republic that is respectful and open in which groups and individuals will be respected for what they are as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Transgender Health Issues: Discussion (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I apologise to the witnesses, but I must go to the Dáil Chamber. However, I will get the answers from the transcript of the meeting and from the committee secretariat. I ask the witnesses not to take offence. I am just trying to show how busy we are.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 506. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the change in outpatient waiting lists between the end of March 2013 and the end of May 2013, if he will supply in tabular format for each reporting hospital the total numbers waiting at 28 March 2013; the numbers on the 28 March waiting list that received an appointment; the numbers on the 28 March waiting list that were offered an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (9 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 524. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is currently no national funding allocated for the life changing asthma medication Olmizumab, Xolair, when currently there are only 200 eligible patients in the country who do not have access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33292/13]

Other Questions: IDA Supports (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Industrial Development Agency Ireland will be restricted in its ability to provide grant support for job creation to major companies as a result of a recent decision of the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33561/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I refer to amendment No. 80, which I am surprised to see included in this raft of amendments because it does not seek to exclude suicide as grounds for a lawful termination in the State. What it proposes is that where the unborn is potentially viable outside the womb every effort must be made to sustain its life after delivery. The other part of the amendment states: "Notwithstanding...