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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (10 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 539. To ask the Minister for Health when the VHI's annual report and accounts for 2013 will be published. [24565/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (10 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 540. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of medical cards as of 1 June 2014; the total number of GP cards on the same date; and the total number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date [24566/14]
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is not.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is not. Asking a person to tell the truth is not accusing him of telling lies.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Send them home, so.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I was reading through the programme for Government again in the past few days. One might question my motivation for doing so.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is rapidly becoming a fictional document, if it was ever factual in the first place. However, it contains a commitment regarding State board appointments and other appointments made by Ministers whereby all such appointees would appear before various Oireachtas committees to be scrutinised. That was a key area to be addressed in the democratic revolution that was promised by this...
- Topical Issue Debate: HIQA Reports (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Was that an election promise?
- Topical Issue Debate: HIQA Reports (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I am involved.
- Topical Issue Debate: HIQA Reports (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister should address the Deputies who raised this Topical Issue.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I came in here with the hope of learning something about the actions the Minister proposes to take to address some of the concerns highlighted in the HIQA report on the University Hospital in Limerick. The HIQA report, whether the Minister likes it or not, is damning, with its references to "persistent overcrowding" and its use of terms like "unacceptable" and "not fit for purpose". Page 74...
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I never said she was on a trolley.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: My difficulty is that those opposite have been in government for more than three years. Some of the promises they made prior to the most recent general election were quite outlandish. The Minister highlighted the provision of health care, which is essential for emergency departments to work, and he also referred to the home help service. In the context of the latter, the number of home...
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is a serious matter.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is a long jig.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: That is never going to happen.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: That is nonsense.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The list is getting longer.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: And the list is growing longer.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Last year, the Government brought forward the House of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill after the people voted down a referendum in this regard the previous autumn. The Bill was agreed by the Oireachtas and during his Second Stage contribution, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform outlined passionately the process of clarifying the role of the Houses of...