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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Or rewrite history.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance White Paper (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 540. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will publish a White Paper on Universal Health Insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54765/13]

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

Billy Kelleher: 614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reassess the necessity to ban over the counter sales of L-trypophan here considering the reversal of a similar ban in the United States in recent times and the fact that the product is also currently available for sale in countries such as the United Kingdom, Japan and the Netherlands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54222/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 637. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatients on waiting lists at each acute hospital at 30 November 2013; if he has achieved his target of having no one on the waiting list for an outpatients appointment for longer than one year as and from 30 November; if outpatients are sent to private hospitals and clinics within and outside the jurisdiction with a view to meeting his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 639. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the review of provision of primary care team services for older persons resident in long-term residential units, the actions and progress that has been made since this report was completed in early January 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54414/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 640. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the review of provision of primary care team services for older persons resident in long-term residential units, if he will account for sizable disparity between the PCT services provided throughout the rest of the country as against the poor performance in the west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54415/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 641. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the review of provision of primary care team services for older persons resident in long-term residential units, if it has been a Health Service Executive policy or unauthorised practice to refuse or limit services to medical card patients residing in private residential units as reflected by the respondents in the report; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 642. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the review of provision of primary care team services for older persons resident in long-term residential units, the way he expects the Health Service Executive given current budgetary constraints and the recruitment embargo to adequately provide services to the elderly in care either private or public through the primary care team system;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 643. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the review of provision of primary care team services for older persons resident in long-term residential units and the recommendation for a standard national policy on the development and implementation of a written policy on assessment, referral and or receipt of primary care services on both private and public long-term residential units,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has developed a national primary care team policy regarding equality of access to services for eligible residents in long term residential units; if so when same will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54419/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 645. To ask the Minister for Health as part of the primary care team services plan for older people in residential care, if this will include on site treatment for the medical card patients; if he will outline the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54420/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive Service Plan 2014 is to be published; the reason it remained unpublished eight weeks after Budget 2014; if there are any substantial changes with regard to the composition of the €666 million savings target set out in Budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54386/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: My question was tabled on the assumption that the Health Service Executive service plan would be published this week. I am disappointed that we will not have an opportunity to discuss the plan before the end of the year. The inordinate delay in publishing the plan following the publication of the budget in October is unsatisfactory. Even if one tries to stretch credibility to the nth...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: There has been anything but a sustained improvement in the health service. For example, the number of people waiting for procedures has increased incrementally. The Minister referred to a 34% decrease in the number of people waiting on trolleys, and I accept that is the case, but he overlooks the fact that more than 380,000 are unable to see a consultant in a timely fashion. He informed me...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: -----dealt with quickly given that more than 200,000 people are seen by consultants every month.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The problem is that there has been an alarming increase in the number of people waiting for consultants as those seeking to see consultants face inordinate delays. The Minister speaks of sustainable health services. He should acknowledge that inherent problems remain in the health services.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister said the figure was not a big deal.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: As is the case each year, we are starting off by denying the reality. The Estimates relating to the two most recent budgets presented to this House were wholly unsustainable from the day they were published. I knew that, as did the Minister and everyone else. Obviously, however, those who operate the system were wandering around in a world of fantasy and pretence.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: In the aftermath of drilling down, the Minister has accepted that €130 million in savings could not have been achieved on the probity side in the absence of the wholesale withdrawal of medical cards from swathes of vulnerable people. Now he is clapping himself on the back for reducing that figure. Either way, he must accept that from the beginning of 2014 he will be implementing cuts...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The word was on the tip of the Minister's tongue.