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- Nursing Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The echo from Deputy Enda Kenny at the time was shame on the then Government, with regard to the change from automatic entitlement to a medical card for those aged over 70 to a means test which set the benchmark at €1,400 per week. This has been reduced to €900 per week for a couple, which is having a devastating impact on older people. Day in and day out people highlight they...
- Nursing Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister of State’s party has been in Government for four years.
- Nursing Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Deputy’s party opposed the fair deal scheme, if he is talking about credibility.
- Nursing Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: He is being argumentative.
- Nursing Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Deputy's colleagues opposed it.
- Nursing Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: They engaged in scaremongering.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 98. To ask the Minister for Health if the upward trend in waiting lists will reverse before the end of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42771/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Company Payments (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 117. To ask the Minister for Health his views on private patients in public hospitals being charged bed rates when they are accommodated in trolleys, chairs or recliners as part of overnight stays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42773/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if proposed free general practitioner care will be subject to a fee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42774/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 137. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2015 Health Service Executive service plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42772/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 150. To ask the Minister for Health to set out his plans to address the ongoing delays in accessing the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42770/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 300. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the additional public order powers promised in 2012 will be provided to the Garda Reserve; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42933/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Prices (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 392. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the two McLoughlin reports on private health insurance, if he will indicate the recommendations contained in those reports that he and his Department have accepted and are implementing; the recommendations that are not being implemented and the reason they are not being progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43106/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (11 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 527. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent of the clean-up required at the Bord Na Móna bog at Barna, Ballydesmond, County Cork, following illegal dumping there; how far into the cleaning process the authorities are and how long they expect the work to take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43212/14]
- Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I wish to contribute to the debate on this amendment because, as Deputy Tóibín pointed out, there are some unscrupulous employers in operation here. These people will go to major lengths to hide behind the law in general or use corporate law to undermine the rights of workers. I do not wish to be parochial but I am aware of a case in my constituency which provides an indication of...
- Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The matter is referred to in every newspaper this morning.
- Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I do not wish to become involved in an argument with the Chair but the matter has already been covered by the national print media.
- Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I do. However, I am not divulging information that was previously secret. This matter is covered by every newspaper in the country and there is a story relating to it on TheJournal.ie.
- Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Six employees in Cork are being badly treated by the company in question. This is an example of a company abusing or undermining employment rights law by exploiting the weaknesses in it. Deputy Tóibín is quite right; there comes a point where people can shirk their responsibility by splitting up a company by divesting part of it into the assets and the remainder with the current...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Some 700 of them are doing so at present.