Results 5,761-5,780 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Expenditure (15 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 863. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the disparity in the budget allocation for primary care as outlined in the 2013 and 2014 Health Service Executive Service Plans; the way the 2013 €400 million primary care allocation as set out in the 2013 service plan became €514 million as detailed in the 2014 service plan and was further revised to €727.3 million; if...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Has the Tánaiste a view on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome all our guests and thank them for outlining the position on the issues not covered yesterday. I wish to focus on some key areas. In the Minister's opening statement, he outlined progress to date and the strategy since the Government came into being in 2011. One of the key issues is universal health insurance and its roll-out and we await the publication of the White Paper on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I am sure the Minister is of the view that the Irish Medical Organisation would never be given to exaggeration in these matters.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister for Health agrees with Deputy Healy.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister for Health is hiding them-----
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: In regard to the White Paper on universal health insurance, the Minister for Health has undertaken to introduce universal health insurance at some point in the future. When will the commission established to look into this issue produce its report? The Minister has stated a report was imminent, but we are still awaiting it. On a more urgent and serious issue, when will the patient safety...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I told the Taoiseach that three years ago, but he did not listen.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 171. To ask the Taoiseach the names and amount by which each programme manager/special advisor has exceeded the relevant pay guidelines as laid down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2259/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 638. To ask the Minister for Health the response times for 112-999 calls to Ballyshannon local ambulance call centre from Enniscrone and the Easkey area; if he will provide figures where the response time has been over fifteen minutes in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2731/14]
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I raise this issue because of a letter written by the Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees Association to HIQA and the HSE. By any stretch of the imagination, it is extraordinary that people would go to these lengths to highlight difficulties in emergency departments. We have a situation where up to 400 patients can be waiting on trolleys at certain times in emergency departments throughout...
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: This is in the Minister's FairCare document before the last election.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: He has had three years to resolve this issue. It is also stated in his FairCare document that accountability will be transferred to the Minister. I am asking the Minister to be accountable at this stage. At least address the issue in our emergency departments and accept that the recommendations in the Tallaght Hospital report should be implemented in our emergency departments throughout...
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I do not seek to represent it; I do represent it.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: If the Minister was being honest all he had to said at the end of his reply was that the prince and princess got married and they all lived happily every after because it is fairytale stuff.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The fact of the matter is that the Minister only had to go on to the IMO website and check the trolley watch; what he is doing is playing with figures.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The simple fact is that 467 people were on trolleys in Irish hospitals-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: -----on the 8th. The bottom line-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We know why they are on trolleys. They are on them because they have been transferred from the emergency departments up the wards but they are still on trolleys. That is the reason the Minister agreed that at least there would be a ward trolley count as well. What has happened is that the trolleys are being moved.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: They were being counted in our time too. The Minister used to come in every day of the week and-----