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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (16 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1096. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the Health Service Executive has published an eHealth Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34937/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (16 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1097. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the Health Service Executive has established an Information and ICT Strategy Unit with a Chief Information Officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34938/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cancer Strategy Implementation (16 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the 55 recommendations of the strategy for cancer control here; and the action taken regarding each recommendation [35248/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1139. To ask the Minister for Health the supports he plans to put in place for persons suffering from narcolepsy and other medical complications following vaccination with Pandemrix; if he has met with the support group, SOUND, or has any plans to meet them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35436/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Programme for Government Implementation (16 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the programme for Government under his remit; if the commitments have been met or are in the process of being met; the estimated time for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34688/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Consultancy Contracts Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by organisations or agencies under the remit of his Department since 9 March 2011; the details of the services supplied by each; the expenditure on each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34704/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Guidelines (17 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to seek the publication of renewed wind energy guidelines; if he is satisfied with the current planning process for wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35052/13]

Other Questions: Cybersecurity Policy (18 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 7. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the recent Brussels seminar on cybersecurity, hosted by the Irish Presidency of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35738/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Report (18 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 702. To ask the Minister for Health when the independent report produced by Professor Oonagh Walsh on symphysiotomy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36445/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Work Programme, Disability Services and Related Issues: Discussion with HIQA (12 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Dr. Cooper and note that the corporate plan presented today is ambitious to say the least. I wish HIQA well in rolling it out in the coming months and years. I wish to raise a couple of issues with Dr. Cooper, particularly in respect of residential services for people with disabilities, for which HIQA's inspection function is now coming on stream. Dr. Cooper states that in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Work Programme, Disability Services and Related Issues: Discussion with HIQA (12 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Chair. In respect of evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of health technologies, including drugs, and providing advice arising from the evaluation for the Minister for Health, where does that leave the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, the organisation that advises in this regard? Is there duplication? Is this complementary or is one subservient to the other?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Work Programme, Disability Services and Related Issues: Discussion with HIQA (12 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: This is part of the statutory functions of the Health Information and Quality Authority. It actually states this on page 34 of its corporate plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Work Programme, Disability Services and Related Issues: Discussion with HIQA (12 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Yes, but it is important to have clarity in this regard because this issue is raised frequently in the context of new advances in medical technologies and medicines pertaining to cancer care and treatments. Where is HIQA in the overall scheme? For example, does it also advise the Irish Medicines Board because of the new generic substitution and other areas for which the Oireachtas or the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (18 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1280. To ask the Minister for Health if any assessment has been made to date on the impact of the introduction of pictorial health warnings on tobacco packaging with regard to consumption levels especially on the levels of smoking among young persons and children [36839/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1283. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of services to persons with borderline personality disorder; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that those with this disorder are high users of accident and emergency departments for self harm and that development of services for them could relieve pressure in emergency departments; and if he will make a...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important motion. This is the most serious issue to face society in recent years. When one looks at the context of where we are, I am very disappointed with the response of Government to this difficulty. We can argue about the legacy and how we got where we were, but the issue-----

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Yes, we can and we will. The issue is that there are now 147,000 people who are in arrears for more than a year, which is simply not a situation we can allow to continue. However, when one looks at how we are addressing it, the difficulty I have is that the Government is almost suffering from Stockholm syndrome when it comes to the banks, in that its expressions of sympathy and empathy lie...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: -----the banks but also by the Central Bank, which has approved such a course of action. This was clearly stated in the hearings of the finance committee. I find it completely unacceptable that banks are sending threatening letters in order to meet the targets that have been laid down by the Government and the Central Bank, and that they see this as the way to address the issue. We cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify and list the medical services that are procured by Sligo Regional Hospital; the cost per patient who use these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38942/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (24 Sep 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 59. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications on hand for planting grants and premiums to plant forestry; the number of these on hand for more than three months, six months, nine months, twelve months and fifteen months; the reason for the delay in making decisions in these cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39530/13]