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- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 519. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money it has been estimated that the National Treatment Purchase Fund is saving the State with the discount it is requesting by forcing nursing homes to charge for social programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14814/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 520. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing homes in the past 12 months that have been told by the auditors sent in by the National Treatment Purchase Fund to increase their nursing home fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14815/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 521. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is a fair and honourable policy by his Department, the Health Service Executive and the National Treatment Purchase Fund to force vulnerable elderly persons in nursing homes to have to spend their legal 20% retention of their pensions on basic social provisions that should be providing for the elderly; and if he will make a statement...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 589. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive projection of 1,875,707 medical cards for 2014 still stands. [15321/14]
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Taoiseach should read what he said in the Dáil at that time. He should live by his words.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Taoiseach will be sending someone to Mr. Brian Purcell's house next.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: So the Taoiseach is accusing the Garda Commissioner of something.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is my business, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is everyone's business.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: What were the Taoiseach's concerns?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: A tricky spot.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: He was opposing a Garda authority until a couple of weeks ago.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Or a friend of a Government Minister.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: No, it is coloured white with black ink.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: So it is not a White Paper; it is a Green Paper.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I will have observations anyway.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I wish to summarise some of the points that have been made. It is important to put the matter in context while we are discussing this motion of no confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality. We need only think back a short period when the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, made his public comments at a road safety conference. He said that the...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: -----looking for his head, someone on its side would have to fall. I am almost certain that, to take the pressure off the Government, the Taoiseach decided to sacrifice the Commissioner, Mr. Callinan. This is a shameful saga in the administration of justice and the Minister is culpable.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister should think back to 2002.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Government does not trust him.