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Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Government is asking the over-70s to subsidise the under-fives.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The old and the sick will be subsidising the under-fives.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister of State knew that in 2011.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health Services Staff Data (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or his Department has at any stage since 9 March 2011 received a request for approval from the Department of Health for any salary or remuneration package with an annual value above €145,000 to be provided to any hospital administrator or hospital group administrator; if so, the date on which the approval was sought; if...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 308. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures in place to help persons with a disability in the 2013 Action Plan for Jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50352/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific measures in the 2013 Action Plan for Jobs that will improve the employment opportunities of persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50353/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies Funding (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 588. To ask the Minister for Health if the reported €150million Exchequer investment in VHI will be found from the 2013 health budget or will have to added to the 2014 budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50231/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies Accounts (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 589. To ask the Minister for Health if the 2012 VHI annual report has been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50232/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies Accounts (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 592. To ask the Minister for Health if the VHI 2012 annual report and accounts have been published; if he has received same; the relevant rules regarding their publication following his receipt of same; the timeframe for their being laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50242/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the €18 million intervention fund announced last May to tackle waiting lists; if any of the €18 million has been used to provide private treatment for those on waiting lists; if so, the amount; the number of procedures this funding achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50391/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 616. To ask the Minister for Health if the national dementia strategy will be published in 2013; if an allocation of funding has been made for the 2014 Estimate in order to allow implementation of the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50406/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 630. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing home fees are taken into consideration when assessing medical card applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50572/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 631. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Treatment Purchase Fund will publish its national waiting list data for September 2013; the reason it remained unpublished as of 20 November 2013 in view of the fact that the August 2013 waiting list data were published three weeks into September; if he will direct that a separate September report be published and that there be no repeat...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the reason charges continue to be placed on medical card holders for the taking of blood samples by general practitioners; if he will detail the actions taken on this issue since July 2012; the further actions he proposes to take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50653/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 660. To ask the Minister for Health if he has at any stage since 9 March 2011 sought approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the Department of Finance for any salary or remuneration package with an annual value above €145,000 to be provided to any hospital administrator or hospital group administrator; if so, the date on which the approval was sought; if and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Chairman and I apologise. I wish Mr. Brian McEnery the best of luck as chairman of HIQA. We are under pressure with the Dáil again. I wish to make a few observations-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: -----on the corporate plan. First and foremost, in the whole area of the reconfiguration of hospitals which is now part and parcel of the roll-out of the Government's strategy to move towards universal health insurance with the establishment of hospital groups, hospital trusts and what flows from them, there is a concern, that certainly those in opposition would hold but also in communities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I am not, because the overriding issue for HIQA is patient safety. We have a situation where CEOs of a hospital have expressed concern, but does that ring alarm bells for HIQA or does it just say that is normal politics in the play for resources? Does HIQA go in and examine whether there is a serious issue? As a spokesperson on health, I believe we now have a situation where consultants...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract Issues (27 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if public hospitals currently have in place any arrangements allowing Category A consultants to carry out private work within public hospitals, or any arrangements to allow Category B consultants to carry out private work outside of the public hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50871/13]

Other Questions: Disability Activation Projects (28 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 7. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of adults in receipt in receipt of disability allowance that are currently on community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50610/13]