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- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Are the questions grouped?
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: There are several of them. Are we reverting to type?
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I will cut to the chase on the issue. The culling of discretionary medical cards has already been referred to in Priority Questions, Private Members' business and in the House for the past two years plus. Can we have an acceptance from the Government side that there is a major problem? It has been acknowledged in the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party. I wish that the Labour Party would...
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is the practice.
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: What time do we have?
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I cannot elicit information on whether there has been change in policy or in practice. However, I do know one thing: there has been a change to many people's lives. These are people in our communities who have had their discretionary medical cards withdrawn or who applied on a discretionary basis but were not granted a card. Last night in the Dáil debate I remarked on the advocacy...
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We are in the Dáil now, we are not in the Four Courts.
- Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Humane rules.
- Other Questions: Health Insurance Regulation (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: However, it has risen considerably.
- Other Questions: Health Insurance Regulation (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister was in favour of that tax break.
- Other Questions: Health Insurance Regulation (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: If I remember correctly, the Minister nearly threatened to resign over that tax break.
- Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Xolair is a medication for the treatment of severe allergic asthma. The product was licensed for use in 2005 but is not reimbursable under any Government schemes. This means it is primarily a matter for hospital pharmacists to decide whether to dispense Xolair to people who have allergic asthma. All available scientific evidence and analysis shows that the medication gives a certain cohort...
- Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The purpose of the national asthma programme is to ensure that asthma sufferers do not have to present at emergency departments when they have an asthma attack. In any one year, 25,000 people will present at hospital with an asthma attack. Any treatment that can prevent this is of immediate benefit to the patient, as well as reducing costs for the State. Novartis which manufactures Xolair...
- Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: That post office there is closed now.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 19. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his talks about talks with the representative organisations of general practitioners regarding their proposed new contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21252/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance Provision (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 25. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the implementation of universal health insurance; when he expects people to know the likely cost to them of universal health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21251/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Provision (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the number of airlifts that have been made from County Donegal to hospital in Galway over the past three years; the number of those that were heart patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21610/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Provision (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of heart patients that have been airlifted from County Donegal to Galway over the past three years that have fallen outside the 90 minute completion time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21611/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Provision (14 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of heart patients that have been airlifted from County Donegal to Galway over the past three years that did not survive; of those the number that them were outside the 90 minute completion time for the transfer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21612/14]
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Over the past 18 months, when the issue of discretionary medical cards was raised and the removal of discretionary medical cards from very sick people was being highlighted in this House and throughout the country, there was a denial in Government that there was any change in policy. Whether there has been a change in policy or in practice, there has been a change because people are having...