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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 652. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of the public or voluntary hospitals that carry out angiograms; the number of persons currently waiting for such a procedure at each hospital in the following waiting periods: less than three months; three to six months; six to nine months; nine to 12 months; and more than twelve months. [17906/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 653. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of the public or voluntary hospitals that carry out electroencephalograms; the number of persons currently waiting for such a procedure at each hospital in the following waiting periods: less than three months; three to six months; six to nine months; nine to 12 months; and more than 12 months. [17907/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 654. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of the public or voluntary hospitals that carry out endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; the number of persons currently waiting for such a procedure at each hospital in the following waiting periods; less than three months; three to six months; six to nine months; nine to 12 months; and more than 12...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: My silence should not be interpreted as a failure to support the amendment. I, too, support it.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I intend to move amendments that will be in line with Deputy Ó Caoláin's amendments based on those circulated by the Irish Cancer Society. We all welcome the legislation. It has received universal approval and acceptance, so I hope it will be embraced in terms of the message it sends out. I assume members will have seen the amendments suggested by the Irish Cancer Society. I...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Surely a business plan is in place.
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. Obviously, our party will set out its views on this and on how we fund our health service in the years ahead. I listened to the Minister's remarks regarding universal health insurance and read The Path to Universal Healthcare, which is called a White Paper. We are a long way from seeing a White Paper on universal health insurance as this is...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We will follow some of them, but regardless of which ones we follow, the Minister is talking about going down a route whereby we will not be able to afford the model that he is proposing.
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We only know one thing. The Minister is asking private health insurance companies to provide a standard suite of cover which we do not yet know what it will cost or what they must be obliged to cover, and that they will compete with each other and with hospital groups or trusts and drive down costs. If the Minister asked the people who looked at these various insurance models and health...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: In this system, the Minister is saying that hospital groups will compete with each other to provide health care, and they will then tender to work with the private health insurance companies. If I live in Moville, Carndonagh or in south-west Cork and the Minister has set up hospital groups from Tralee to Waterford and from Letterkenny to Galway, somehow there will be competition within that...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: No, it was just taken from somebody else. There is no point in us pretending here that-----
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The idea that Fine Gael would hail a policy whereby the oldest, sickest and those with profound disabilities and significant life challenges would have a medical card taken from them at the age of six is despicable. This is happening day in, day out. There is not a Deputy in the House who has not raised the issues of discretionary medical cards and medical cards being taken from people who...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The bottom line, however, is that there is a major problem in general practitioner practices, particularly in rural areas. There will now be a major problem in areas of socioeconomic deprivation. If the Minister is saying this is not happening, I fear we are facing a greater difficulty than I imagined. The one argument on which we can all agree is that primary care represents the best way...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I worry greatly when I listen to the Minister all the time.
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Perhaps I should listen less. What we are talking about tonight is universal health insurance and the commitments of the Government to introduce it. The difficulty the Minister has is that his colleagues are not committed to it. If they were, he would have produced more than the document entitled The Path to Universal Healthcare. He would have produced detailed proposals and the nuts and...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The public should feed into it but one would have thought the Minister would have had an opinion on the matter after three years in government and numerous years in opposition highlighting it.
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: With regard to the effort to reduce costs or not have them escalate, about which the Minister has spoken, and the competition in the multi-pair system and multi-provider system, I cannot understand how the Minister believes that will work. The means by which it will work are very unclear in the strategy document. It is very unclear that those who provide the care - the general...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The other area we have failed to address is one the Minister has made no mention of today. I am sure he would have come in here and applauded himself if we had seen a large drop in the number of people waiting for outpatient appointments, but there is an issue there as well.
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: If one looks at it month on month, we have difficulties. I did not see any press releases coming from the Department on that one. Overall-----
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Yes, correct the record.