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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards issued on a discretionary basis for the first time during January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8522/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards previously issued on a discretionary basis that were issued under standard criteria during January 2014 as the holders now qualified for medical cards under financial grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8523/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards issued on a discretionary basis that were discontinued during January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8524/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 233. To ask the Minister for Health his views on assertions the draft contract for the provision of GP care to children aged under six is a completely one-sided document which places enormous responsibilities on the general practitioner with no balanced responsibilities included for the Health Service Executive or the Department, that it is not patient centred and is heavily focussed on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 234. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the draft contract for the provision of general practitioner care to children aged under six makes no reference to the Medical Practitioners Act 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8569/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the draft contract for the provision of general practitioner care to children aged under six contains a stipulation the service provider shall not do anything to prejudice the name or reputation of the Health Service Executive; the other contracts in the health service that contain such a clause; if the contract with hospital consultants contains...

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak. We will be supporting the Bill. It was included in a health information Bill when the heads of that Bill were approved by the Government in 2009. This was clearly an issue that was discussed in the context of the troika to ensure health identifiers were put on a statutory basis. For that reason, we feel it is an appropriate Bill. In general, when one...

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Including his party's manifestos. The Minister of State has read them too.

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: As we look into the future, and not too far into the future, we know health care will become very expensive in the years ahead. The idea of having people in the acute hospital setting for longer periods than they should be makes no economic sense and is certainly not good patient practice in terms of communicable diseases and other problems associated with people in high-density acute...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role his Department plays in schools amalgamation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9090/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason two primary schools (details supplied) in County Cork are being proposed for amalgamation despite the overwhelming opposition of parents of children at both schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9089/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 690. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 5 February 2014 if he will provide the details of the 2014 budgets for hospitals (details supplied) and the 2013 outturn for same. [9397/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Response Times: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Will Mr. Dixon shed some light on the HIQA guidelines for the first responder to be at a location within seven minutes 59 seconds? He said the rapid response vehicles are meant to complement the ambulances rather than replace them. Is it the case that the rapid response vehicle is sometimes the only vehicle dispatched to a very serious traumas, such as a heart attack? Does that happen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Response Times: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the presentation by the ambulance services. No one is criticising the staff at the coalface of the ambulance service. We should be clear about that. We are here to try to shed some light on the challenges facing front-line services, to see where there are deficiencies and if we can highlight and throw some light on that, as well as determine where additional resources are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (26 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 224. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to Health Service Executive reviews of eligibility that are to be conducted in a risk-assessed manner in relation to approximately one million medical card holders during 2014, the number of reviews that took place in January 2014; the number of medical cards discontinued as a result of these reviews; the number of reviews where a persons income...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (26 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 269. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 223 of 19 February 2014, if the number of medical cards granted on the basis of the exercise of discretion increased by 27,415 between the 1 January 2014 and 1 February 2014; the reason the trend in place for the past two years has been reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9969/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (26 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 270. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance at the end of 2013 in each of the following age groups, 17 years and under, 18 to 29 years, 30 to 39 years, 40 to 49 years, 50 to 59 years, 60 to 69 years, 60 to 79 years, 80 years and over [9972/14]

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: At the heart of the Government's policy in the programme for Government are two key issues with regard to health, the introduction of free GP care for all by end of the lifetime of the Government and the establishment of universal health insurance after the next election. By any stretch of the imagination and to say the very least and be polite, progress to date has been minimal. There is...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: -----which will decide whether health is rationed and what sort of basic policies will be put in place with regard to cover for ordinary families in this country?

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Labour Party may have been proposing a universal health insurance model but it was on a funding system of social insurance as opposed to private insurance companies funding the health model. There is quite a large difference between the two. At the outset, the Tánaiste said the Government wants to introduce a policy that would give access to people based on their medical need as...