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Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: What about four years ago?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork had their single farm payment penalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47499/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 148. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have their eye operation carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47526/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 150. To ask the Minister for Health when a cancelled eye operation in respect of a person (details supplied) will be rescheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47528/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services for Irish Communities in UK and USA: Discussion (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the important work they do. Sometimes the work done for Irish people abroad, particularly in advocating for people who have fallen on hard times, goes unappreciated here. I refer also to the work in the context of the legal loophole that has caused significant misery for undocumented Irish people in the United States and the continual campaign on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services for Irish Communities in UK and USA: Discussion (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I apologise as I must leave the meeting to speak to an amendment to the Water Services Bill in the Dáil. I will try to return.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue, which has been debated quite a lot in recent years. More recently, the issue was debated in the context of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill which was debated last year and enacted. The Minister has referred to some issues and fall-out from that debate, such as the Ms Y case which may come before the courts. We are also waiting...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to raise the issue of the number of people waiting on trolleys in Beaumont hospital. This issue does not pertain solely to Beaumont, however, because we now have a major crisis on our hands in emergency departments throughout the country. Mr. Duffy, the CEO of Beaumont, rightly expressed concern about the more than 100 people on late discharges who are tying up bed...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: More than 45 people were waiting on trolleys in the emergency department in Beaumont recently. There is a lack of urgency in dealing with this issue. At any one time, 100 people are in Beaumont hospital when they should be in nursing homes, in receipt of home care packages or in other step down facilities. The funding provided as recently as the budget shows that the Minister is not taking...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister's difficulty is that it is a national emergency, because 45 people were waiting on trolleys in Beaumont Hospital a few days ago. Despite all the excuses and the pretence, this did not sneak up on the Minister. The problem has been evident for some time. It has also been evident in the context of nursing homes. As everybody knows, the demographic trends clearly show that our...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister was an Action Man in opposition.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health Insurance Community Rating (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department was consulted by the Department of Health regarding to the regulations implementing lifetime community rating in the health insurance market. [48265/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 430. To ask the Minister for Health his views on concerns expressed by senior managers in the national ambulance service to Health Information and Quality Authority inspectors (details supplied). [47781/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Administration (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 442. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the refunds of prescription charges to persons on the long-term illness scheme who had to use their general medical services cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47934/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 445. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the model of financing and provision of mental health service as provided by Aspen in Lucan, County Dublin has been endorsed by the Minister for Justice and Equality, his plans to extend this model of provision to other types of care provided by the health service or to other parts of the country with regard to mental health service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for the Health Service Executive to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is heavily dependent on home care and has been having difficulties with the supply of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48462/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Ms McGuinness, Mr. Dunne and Dr. O'Donnell. We all welcome the fact this HIQA report has finally been published and we have an opportunity to debate it. In many ways, it makes for sobering reading. This issue has been debated in the Dáil and has been raised by numerous Deputies on many occasions in terms of the concerns they have in regard to response times and resources...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The HIQA report has a lot to say about the broader issue of governance. What will the response to that be, in terms of the national ambulance service? Will it oversee the process by which the issues highlighted in the HIQA report are addressed? Will the HSE do it or will HIQA have some role in the continuous monitoring of the issue raised in the reports? The national ambulance service has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Before we suspend for the division in the Dáil, I have a question on the seven minute, 59 seconds call-out time and whether the first responder is actually deemed a patient-carrying vehicle.