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Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (25 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1193. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is not allowed to qualify for the treatment abroad scheme even though there is no specialist here to provide treatment; if he will have the application reconsidered favourably; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14063/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1194. To ask the Minister for Health the distribution of the number of ambulance services between Cork University Hospital and the Mercy University Hospital, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14064/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (25 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1195. To ask the Minister for Health if the accident and emergency department at the Mercy University Hospital, Cork has been closed at any stage in the past 12 weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14065/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (25 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1196. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that resulted in the accident and emergency department at the Mercy University Hospital, Cork, being closed; the person charged with making this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14066/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (25 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1197. To ask the Minister for Health in the event of the Mercy University Hospital accident and emergency department being closed, if he will confirm if members of the public are directed to the accident and emergency at Cork University Hospital; the person charged with responsibility for redirecting the members of the public to the accident and emergency department at Cork University...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (25 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1198. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the combination of interview panels for jobs pertaining to the Health Service Executive, in particular hospital consultant posts, and the equity of stakeholders and in particular the over-presence of university representation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14068/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government Implementation (25 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1207. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in tabular form of the commitments in the programme for Government that relate to his Department; and the progress that has been made in the implementation of each commitment. [14116/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Programme for Government Implementation (25 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in tabular form of the commitments in the programme for Government that relate to his Department; and the progress that has been made in the implementation of each. [14122/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Assessments (26 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners are entitled to garnish the income of a person or persons to pay the household charge and local property tax who is either appealing a Revenue debt or legally challenging the HC-LPT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14287/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (26 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in detail the current financial position of St. Vincent's Hospital, Richmond Road, Fairview, Dublin; if his attention has been drawn to concerns that the hospital is in serious financial trouble and is struggling to maintain services in the context of budget cuts and uncertainty regarding its funding from the Health Service Executive; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (26 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to St. Vincent's Hospital, Richmond Road, Fairview, Dublin, by the Health Service Executive in 2011 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14453/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 192. To ask the Minister for Health if accommodation will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow to take a incentivised career break from the Health Service Executive for family reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14461/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 96. To ask the Minister for Health the action he proposes to take in view of the negative response of general practitioners to their proposed new contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15121/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: We have attended meetings at which general practitioners expressed concern about the contract the Government has proposed in the context of the roll-out of universal general practitioner care for children aged under six years. This is not universal care in the sense that somebody will have to pay for it at some stage. Persons with severe intellectual disabilities and serious and life...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister of State said at the outset that he has a vision for primary care, but it became clear as he neared the end of his reply that he has no vision because there are no actual plans in place to deal with what the Government committed to in its programme for Government. It is evident there has been no increase in funding in respect of primary care and that the continuing withdrawal of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Not only is the Minister of State playing with words, he is playing with people's lives when it comes to discretionary medical card withdrawals. Time and again when we have raised the issue of discretionary medical cards in this House, the response has been that there is no such entity as a discretionary medical card. Up until last year, every HSE service plan made provision for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I am not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I clarified what I meant.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: What about the position with regard to those with long-term illnesses?

Other Questions: Health Insurance Prices (1 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Would the Minister agree that Mr. Pat McLoughlin's review should also take into account Government policies on premium increases, the cap on tax relief and full cost recouping for private patients in public beds? These are key issues that have inflated private health insurance costs. In the context of asking the HIA to police the health insurance market, the Minister has many times...