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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 432. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will receive treatment for Dupuytren's contractures; the format this treatment will be, for example, injection or surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36986/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 433. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of outpatient assessments sent to private hospitals in the past 12 months, by originating public hospital, private hospital referred to, department-speciality; the cost of these referrals; the number of these outpatients who have been referred back to their respective public hospitals for treatment; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 439. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate money to the South Infirmary Victoria Hospital, Cork to allow it to undertake orthopaedic operations and begin to clear the backlog that has been created by the lack of funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37085/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (1 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 96. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for processing fair deal applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37233/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (1 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 97. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe to release the money awarded under the fair deal scheme once it has been approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37234/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (1 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 98. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of a shortfall there is to cover the fair deal scheme to the end of the year; the reason this shortfall occurred; if he will be allocating further money in 2014 to allow the scheme to operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37235/14]

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Or else she misled the Dáil in the reply to the parliamentary question.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: They also said that budgets were regressive for three years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (2 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Thank you, Chairman. I welcome the witnesses and note that the session was very informative. At the outset, there are two real issues. One is what happens on a local pitch, basketball court, American football pitch or ice-hockey pitch. Then there is the broader issue of how we collate all our data and statistics to have a long-term strategy on this issue. The biggest problem is to take...

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: He is sorry he dropped him.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Which Deputy?

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: When did he determine this?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the motorised transport grant and the mobility allowance; his plans on reintroducing these schemes or replacing them with alternatives; if so, when will they be introduced; if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37704/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transport Scheme (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 310. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive operates a travel scheme for patients who require to travel to Dublin hospitals from County Cork on a regular basis to attend appointments; and if he will provide details of such scheme [37674/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Inspections (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 313. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend powers to the Health Information and Quality Authority to undertake inspections of sheltered homes for the elderly; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37697/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for setting prices on nursing home beds through the national treatment purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37779/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is such a wide discrepancy in the nursing home support scheme prices with private and voluntary nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37780/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 344. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the safety and effectiveness of hip joints supplied by a company (details supplied); if he will provide details on same; the number of patients affected; the measures taken in respect of recipients; the cost to the State; if he will be seeking compensation from the company involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37864/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance Provision (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the ESRI study which he has commissioned into the costs of universal health insurance; if he has asked the institute to examine options for a health insurance model that is not based on competing health insurers as envisaged in the White Paper published in April 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38031/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration (7 Oct 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the salary increase for teachers entering since 2011, if she will also be reversing the pay reductions imposed on special needs assistants at that time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37773/14]