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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (11 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 594. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to replace the spinal surgeon at Tallaght hospital given the pervious surgeon has ceased practising; if provisions are being made to facilitate affected patients waiting for specialist procedures to be moved to another facility while keeping their place on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6415/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts Data (11 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 598. To ask the Minister for Health if he will name each company awarded a contract for the provision of professional services by his Department and agencies under his aegis since May 2011; the value and purpose of the contract; if a competitive tendering process was undertaken in line with public procurement best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6457/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (11 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 616. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of operations and-or procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each public hospital in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6680/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (11 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures the SDU-health service procured from private and or independent hospitals in 2013; the amount spent by the health service-SDU on these procedures in private and or independent hospitals in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6682/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Consultancy Contracts Data (11 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 658. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will name each company awarded a contract for the provision of professional services by his Department and agencies under his aegis since May 2011; the value and purpose of the contract; if a competitive tendering process was undertaken in line with public procurement best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (12 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: We support this legislation and welcome its publication and this debate. The Minister alluded to the reasons this Bill is important. It is important for a number of reasons, primarily because it states a policy that Government and society in general are trying to bring about which is a preventative type of culture in our society not only in the area of melanoma and skin cancer but in the...

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (12 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It is certainly a worthy clarion call. Everybody should embrace the aim of driving tobacco consumption down to very low levels by the target date. It is also about other areas of public health. The obesity issue must be addressed. I know the Minister is very conscious of it and is trying to introduce initiatives to promote healthy eating, etc., but there is an alarming growth in the...

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (12 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I thank you for reminding me, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We are talking about public health which is referenced in the Title of the Bill. When we pass legislation and subscribe to a policy there is a requirement to back it up on a continual basis to ensure that people adhere to it. Irish people are very slow in understanding that the sun can kill if they do not protect themselves from it. ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (12 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of the roll-out of the Living City Initiative; when the designated areas will be identified by local authorities; when the ministerial order will be moved for commencement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7106/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (12 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) in County Tipperary who will be attending a special needs school is being denied school transportation because the intervention team in their area no longer put the recommended school in writing as part of their assessment; if he will investigate this problem and rectify same; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (12 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not received their payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7101/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (12 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 212. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a policy change in terms of the ability of Health Service Executive early intervention teams to recommend a school for special needs children as part of their assessment; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that one intervention team (details supplied) no longer provides this one-line recommendation and this is affecting children's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1. To ask the Minister for Health the way he will address the deep concerns of both hospital consultants and general practitioners regarding the provision of health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7186/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I am asking how the Minister for Health will address the deep concerns of both hospital consultants and general practitioners about the provision of health care in this country. I tabled this question because it is an issue of major concern. Hospital consultants have expressed very strong views about patient safety, the lack of consultants and supports in hospitals, the overcrowding in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: We do not have time to discuss the whole budget and the provisions of health care in this country, but the feeling out there is that there is a crisis in GP services and that they are being forced to take on more complex cases. This is because of the outsourcing from the acute hospital system, the transfer of long-term illnesses and other complex conditions that are now expected to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Discussions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: We can have this debate again and again but the Minister is in his fourth year in government. He can only shelve his responsibility for so long.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: He is going into his fourth year and it is time he would believe he can stand over his policies and decisions. There are serious difficulties in the acute hospital setting. It is difficult to get people out of hospitals. Step-down facilities are not available. We are having difficulty trying to transfer people from the acute hospital setting to step-down and then home. That is happening...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I am making those points because if the Minister wants to deny the facts and the realities and what the clinicians at the coal-face are telling us, then he should deny them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Government does not have any either. We are still waiting for the White Paper on health insurance. They could not even do the sums on it - the arithmetic, the mathematics, the logarithms. The logarithms were not even on that White Paper.