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- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: -----the first thing he would raise was the trolley count, the point being that the Minister is manipulating the figures.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I am saying that in January of this year, by any stretch of the imagination, it has not been a good year in terms of the number of people who are on trolleys, particularly given that it was a central plank in the Minister's policies to drive down the number of people waiting on trolleys in emergency departments. We had a case of 426 people on trolleys on the 6th, 461 on the 7th and 467 on...
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: That is simply unacceptable. There was a case recently of ambulances waiting outside CUH in Cork because they were unable to discharge patients due to the emergency department being overcrowded. Ambulances that there required elsewhere were waiting because the hospital could not discharge the patients. The Minister is trying to tell me that after three years that he has achieved an awful...
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: They have not been implemented.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I am saying that they have not been implemented and it is quite clear that there is a long way to go to ensure that we have safe practice in our emergency departments throughout the country, and that is not taking from the excellence of staff who work under extraordinary pressure day in day out.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister does of course.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I did not.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Instead of spinning, if the Minister cared to visit the HSE website, he would note it puts up its progress reports on a regular basis.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: But-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The reason Ward Watch is in place is that trolleys were being hidden in hospitals.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: What about the Tallaght report?
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister has forgotten what he said.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 204. To ask the Minister for Health when Health Service Executive staff who are working in an acting capacity and were assured as part of the Haddington Road Agreement that they would be converted to the full post by 1 October 2013 with back pay to 1 July 2013 will come into effect; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3026/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Application Numbers (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 221. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 761 of 15 January 2014, the reason the 2014 Health Service Executive service plan does not contain projections for the number of medical cards to be issued on a discretionary basis in 2014 in view of the fact the service plans for 2013 and 2012 did so and both of these plans specifically categorised them as...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if audits are carried out by the Health Service Executive on all section 39 organisations in receipt of HSE moneys; if so the regularity with which they are carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3180/14]
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: In his Private Members' debate speech, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, included information in the possession of his Department regarding Rehab lottery cards. This was the first time this was mentioned in the House and all Members are aware there is a pending High Court case involving Rehab and the State. There is no doubt but that this information is in the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I did not say that.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The key point is that matching funding is provided in the context of the national lottery scheme for charities. This has been a common practice for many years and many voluntary or charitable organisations have been receiving matching funding. For example, sporting clubs nationwide receive matching funding in the context of other schemes; this is not unusual. However, I find it amazing...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: In the meantime, while this spin from the Government is going on, it is doing untold damage to families nationwide who are depending-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: ----- on Rehab services and other charitable organisations to supplement what the State should be doing. Effectively, that is the case here.