Results 5,881-5,900 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Payments (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the reason general practitioners are receiving €700 per annum for each medical card patient on their list aged over 70, no visit required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4427/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 187. To ask the Minister for Health the reason hospitals cannot write prescriptions for medical card patients on discharge; the reason ill patients are required to attend their general practitioner to get their prescriptions after leaving hospital; the annual cost to the State of this regulation; if it is his intention to remove this requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 188. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make Anapens publicly available, like defibrillators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4429/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department and the Health Service Executive have taken to raise awareness of anaphylaxis; if he will provide support to persons at risk and their families; his plans to step up these support measures; if any legislation is planned; if any other agencies under the aegis of his Department are pursuing measures in this regard; and if he will...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 190. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's legal challenges in respect of the Drogheda review against the Information Commissioner's findings and the Office of the Ombudsman's court order for provision of documents, listed for hearing on 30 January 2014 in the High Court in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4436/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons he is taking actions with regard to the Drogheda review against the Information Commissioner's findings and the Office of the Ombudsman's court order for provision of documents; what will be the impact of these actions and who will benefit from them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4437/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 192. To ask the Minister for Health what he and his Department hope to achieve by the actions he is taking in respect of the Drogheda review against the Information Commissioner's findings and the Office of the Ombudsman's court order for provision of documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4438/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the costs to date and the projected full costs, legal and administrative, for all parties involved in the legal actions being taken by his Department in respect of the Drogheda review against the Information Commissioner's findings and the Office of the Ombudsman's court order for provision of documents, being mindful of the fact that the third parties...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the financial support that has been provided by him and his Department to Dignity4Patients since he took office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4440/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 195. To ask the Minister for Health how funding allocaed to Dignity4Patients since he took office compares with the expenditure on legal and administrative costs in respect of the legal challenges regarding the Drogheda review against the Information Commissioner's findings and the Office of the Ombudsman's court order for provision of documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the person in his Department, or elsewhere, who decided to initiate legal challenges with regard to the Drogheda review against the Information Commissioner's findings and the Office of the Ombudsman's court order for provision of documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4442/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 197. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the legal challenges in respect of the Drogheda review against the Information Commissioner's findings and the Office of the Ombudsman's court order for provision of documents are a result of applications for transcripts of attendance at the review by both attendees and the Office of the Ombudsman; the Office of the Ombudsman sought...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he and his departmental officials were insistent on taking actions during the past two years which are causing compounded trauma and distress to Dignity4Patients clients who attended the Drogheda review in 2010; these individuals are all former patients who allege serious incidents of sexual violence when ill or injured and were all patients of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 199. To ask the Minister for Health in order to put an immediate end to this continued retraumatisation and exploitation of sexually abused patients if he confirms that he will immediately move to use the information acquired during the Drogheda Review as a basis for establishing a full and proper Inquiry into the alleged sexual violation of sick and injured patients in this hospital and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 200. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is felt that those who attended the Drogheda review have been treated appallingly by him and his Department - they attended a review which many found traumatic and exploitative, their support service through Dignity4Patients was stopped abruptly for six months following the review, a time when these persons were acutely in need of support; it was...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Yesterday VHI Healthcare announced it fourth price increase in three years. I have no doubt that other health insurers will follow suit in the near future. It could be perceived that this Government is in cahoots with insurers in efforts to drive as many families as possible out of the health insurance market. More than 6,000 people a month are giving up private health insurance. The...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We appreciate the Tánaiste sharing in the wonder but we would much prefer if he shared the responsibility for the escalating costs of private health insurance. Every Government policy is inflating the cost of private health insurance for hard-pressed families. I agree that because of the recession there is high unemployment and the country is in difficulty. The bottom line is that the...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The budget had a lot to do with it.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Every family's health insurance policy is gold-plated, according to this Government.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste used to oppose water charges at one time.