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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 4: In page 4, line 34, to delete "12 per cent" and substitute "10 per cent".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It has also to do with a budgetary change in terms of the decision of the Minister for Finance to cap the tax relief. That, in effect, is one of the reasons this issue is coming before us today.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Is the Minister sure?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Yes but the reason the Minister has to inform people is that up to now there was no cap on tax relief. Therefore, a person's insurance was the net amount for which they were billed, because the tax relief was deducted at source. What is happening now is that there is a cap on tax relief, €1,000 for an adult, €500 for a child, which means that the average two plus two policy...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the fact that the information is being provided but up until now the position was that one was billed and one paid the net sum and the insurance company deducted at source and was reimbursed at a later stage. What is happening now is that there will be an additional cost on the average health insurance policy of any family in the State whereas we were told initially that it would...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:“(3) Nothing within the provisions set out in subsections (1) or (2) above shall require the payment of more than one specified rate per insured person in any 12 month period.”.There is no point in my going into a long debate. Obviously, the Minister is in an argumentative mood. I am only...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I am straying from the amendment. As I said, it is an amendment to ensure that only one levy is payable per person per year. That is basically the purpose of it.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Yes, but they had Committee Stage there as well.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Was there not an error in the legislation previously to the effect that if a person changed insurer or insurance cover he would be met with a second levy? The amendment is to ensure that is not the case and that no one incurs anything more than one levy in any 12 month period. I believe it is a perfectly fair amendment. In view of what the Minister said about shopping around he should be...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Not all of them were.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I am pressing it.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: FARC and ETA.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (5 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 213. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 524 of 8 October 2013, 137, 138, 133 and 168 of 16 October 2013, and 193 and 194 of 17 October 2013, when replies will issue; the reason for the delay in view of the fact that all questions were listed before 18 October last; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52240/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (5 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 220. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have agreed any capital investment in the three Dublin children's hospitals in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52307/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (5 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if any of three Dublin children's hospitals have applied for assistance or clearance for any capital developments in their hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52308/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (5 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 240. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department was first informed of the payment of top-ups at the Central Remedial Clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52439/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (5 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 241. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive was first informed of the payment of top-ups at the Central Remedial Clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52440/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV-AIDS Strategy: Discussion (5 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: This is an important discussion. As policy makers and citizens, we should all be concerned about the increase in the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. As a teenager during the 1980s, I become concerned when people speak about advertising campaigns. While the advertising campaign of the 1980s was effective in terms of the shock and horror impact, it was not very informative and it...

Topical Issue Debate: HSE Staff Remuneration (10 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I want to say at the outset that I am conscious we are talking about an individual who is not here to speak for himself. I do not want to impugn anybody's character or integrity but in the public interest I would be failing in my duties if I did not raise this issue. We need to get a full statement of clarification following reports that the director general of the Health Service Executive,...

Topical Issue Debate: HSE Staff Remuneration (10 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I appreciate the Minister of State's reply in this context. As I said at the outset, this is not impugning anybody's character but it would be remiss of me in my role as an Opposition spokesperson not to raise the issue and call for clarity and a statement from Mr. O'Brien as director general of the HSE which, bear in mind, oversees the spending of approximately €13 billion per year...