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Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: If universal health insurance was the utopian model, as we were being led to believe, I see no reason that the Government would not be moving full steam ahead with it. The contrary is the case in terms of the Minister's commitment to universal health insurance. It has actually been dropped from his lexicon and his vocabulary. He never speaks about it anymore. Instead, he speaks about...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Speaking today at the launch of the HSE service plan for 2015, which outlines in detail the spending budget of just over €13 billion, the CEO of the HSE, Mr. Tony O'Brien, stated the funding will not be sufficient to fully address the increasing demand being placed on our hospital system, in particular the growing waiting lists for elective surgery. We have been here before, in terms...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: -----in particular our emergency departments. There seems to be consistent denial from the Government that the health services are in crisis. If the Tánaiste wants the evidence, she should read the reports of the harrowing case of the young man in Limerick last year. The broader issue is that we have had spin and lots of it, but next year the Government will already have a budget...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: What is of concern in all of this is that the Tánaiste is beginning to believe the spin also. The difficulty we have is that the Government is in denial. The Tánaiste spoke about the HSE being charged. In the programme for Government it is proposed to abolish the HSE. It is also proposed to have universal GP care for everybody by the end of 2016 and to cut waiting lists to zero....

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: -----and all the time the Government is pretending things are improving.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Let us be very clear.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Government needs €500 million to plug the hole in the budget deficit this year. With the demographic changes, next year, in the words of the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, he needs €200 million and the Government is providing an extra €600 million. By any stretch of imagination the Government is automatically down €100 million before it even starts.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Mr. O'Brien is saying the exact same thing today at the launch of the HSE service plan which is meant to ensure we will have additional services next year, but that is not the case. Will the Tánaiste agree for once that this HSE service plan does not have sufficient funding in place?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Government is again robbing from the most vulnerable to try to plug the holes here and there. It has not even committed the full amount of money provided for mental health in the programme for Government. We are still behind in terms of funding.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Will the Tánaiste at least agree that the HSE service plan, as with the previous three the Government published, is not sustainable even before we start?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I want to see it prioritised.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I know the Tánaiste does not even believe that.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: She could be correcting the record twice.

Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I am not raising the industrial relations (amendment) Bill in the context of what happened here this morning. Some time ago, the Mandate union referred Dunnes Stores to the Labour Court in connection with zero hours contracts. Representatives of Dunnes Stores did not turn up at the Labour Court hearings. In effect, workers who have been put on zero hours contracts by some companies in this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 143. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to all elective to public-voluntary hospitals, if he will provide in tabular form for each month in 2014 and for each of those hospitals the number of elective admissions that are private patients and the number that are public patients. [45649/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 153. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form for each public-voluntary hospital, the numbers waiting in September 2014 for coronary bypass operations, indicating the numbers waiting zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine months to 12 months and more than 12 months. [45713/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to lift the moratorium on posts of responsibility in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45574/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil Data Collection (27 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if grant aid will be made available to assist primary schools with the ever-increasing requirements of her Department in compiling the pupil online database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45575/14]

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I move:That Dáil Éireann:agrees that:— the health services are underfunded; — the 2015 Health Service Executive National Service Plan is not sufficient to fully address the increasing demands and demographic pressures being placed on our hospital system; and — key targets in the Plan are regarded as unrealistic by its authors; andcalls on the Government to...

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: At this time of the year, we tend to discuss the annual service plan of the Health Service Executive. I am not filled with a great deal of confidence with what I saw in the overall plan for next year which was published recently. I do not believe that will be changed with the soon-to-be published divisional and sectoral plans. We could have a philosophical and ideological debate on how we...