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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: If a purchaser had this information he or she would be in a better position to put together an offer for the loan book.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate Mr. Rowntree's honesty. Thank you.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 18. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private investor-owned, profit-oriented hospitals, details supplied, are advertising for patients on the radio while poorer, less well-off patients are spending days on trolleys in overcrowded emergency departments; his views on whether the capacity of these private hospital emergency departments should be...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: If we have a bad flu epidemic this winter, we will face hell in our emergency departments. Listening to the radio most mornings, it galls me to hear private hospitals advertising - almost rolling out the red carpet - that they are available for anyone who has an emergency while down the road patients are waiting for hours or days on trolleys. Will the Minister consider renting, or in some...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister. He started off the answer fairly well but he went downhill after that. There was no meat in the detail except to agree with my hypothesis that it is wrong that a 90 year old woman who goes into an emergency department such as the Mater hospital could be on a trolley for two to three days while 100 yards down the road an executive can go into another emergency...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Minister should make them play their role. He said it is not an ideological debate but I beg to differ. It is an ideological debate. When we had to provide emergency measures to socialise the debts of banks a number of years ago, we did so. I disagreed with it and voted against it, unlike others in this Chamber.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: We have an issue here because we have to socialise the dearth of infrastructure when it comes to emergency departments and we need to do it immediately because people are going to die on trolleys if this is not done. Despite all the Minister's measures, we will not have the immediate capacity that we need in emergency departments if he does not take this proposed measure. There is an issue...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: We could do it in 48 hours a few years ago.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I agree with the Minister on that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: It will not be solved this winter.

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: I was surprised, but delighted, to hear the Minister say there will be increased funding for the national ambulance service. Why has a review of the role of advanced paramedics as part of the national ambulance service in the mid-west been announced? This has been confirmed by the ambulance service. There have been also been meetings about it, including one in Tipperary. I presume that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 47. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that there has been a closure and reduction of Shannondoc services in County Clare in recent weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30694/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 48. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to ensure there will be adequate supply of nurses in our health service in the coming years to meet demand [30696/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 64. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll out of Jigsaw; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30697/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 94. To ask the Minister for Health if the extra funding provided for in budget 2017 will meet the demand assessed by the HSE for all home care packages and home help hours required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30698/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 116. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of ambulance services in the mid-west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30695/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 319. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application in respect of a person (details supplied) under the invalidity pension scheme. [30410/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary under the carer’s allowance scheme. [30414/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the invalidity pension scheme. [30428/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (18 Oct 2016)

Alan Kelly: 322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme. [30435/16]