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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 December 2014; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date; and the number for each type of card assigned to over 70s on that date. [49098/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 418. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form by county or local health area the number of home help hours provided to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49210/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 419. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for each ambulance station in each month in 2014 to September 2014 the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; the percentage of clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in seven minutes and 59 seconds or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 420. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular format the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in September 2014; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; the number that waited longer than 40 minutes for same; the number that waited...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 421. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for December 2013 and December 2014 for each local health area the number of medical cards in circulation; the number of which issued on the basis of the exercise of discretion; and the number of which were allocated to over 70s. [49216/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 422. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, indicating the HSE region and subdivided by every 80,000 kilometres, the distances that have been travelled by emergency ambulances currently in service; the distances that have been travelled by intermediate care ambulances currently in service; the distances that have been travelled by rapid response vehicles currently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 426. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for each local health office the number of children currently awaiting an initial assessment for speech and language therapy for the following waiting times, 0 to four months, four to eight months, eight to 12 months, 12 to 18 months,18 to 24 months and more than 24 months; and if he will provide the same details for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I apologise for being late. I had something else on. I welcome the delegates. The joint committee has discussed Lyme disease on a number of occasions and varying and contradictory views have been expressed by medical professionals and advocacy groups. We are trying to get to the bottom of the issue. We have met people who have Lyme disease and they often claim that traditional medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The implication seems to be that my opening remarks must be short.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Okay. I will ask a few questions. Why are there such disparities between the varying views held? I refer, for example, to the view within traditional medical science on testing for Lyme disease. Why is there not a more uniform opinion on the efficiency of the serologies of the western blot and ELISA test methods? Is there still a doubt within traditional medicine about people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Reference was made to Germany, which is not a basket case but rather a First World country. Why is there such a discrepancy between the accreditation systems in Germany and Ireland? Is the laboratory in Germany acting independently? Many people have told us that they were diagnosed in Germany as having chronic Lyme disease. Is it the view of the delegates that the accreditation system in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It could be groupthink.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I was being devil's advocate.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: This is the present.

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I move:That Dáil Éireann: noting:— the deplorable overcrowding being experienced in hospital emergency departments; — the record number of patients waiting on trolleys; — the further delays in scheduled hospital treatments that will result from such overcrowding; and — the failure of the Government and the Health Service Executive (HSE) to adequately...

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister should not absolve himself, please.

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister should take responsibility for it himself, so.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 536. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will supply size seven Lieber pull-ups to a person (details supplied) in County Cork as they are available at the HSE in Wilton, County Cork where they presently get their supplies. [49539/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 582. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sanction the use of Erivedge in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who cannot afford to pay the cost of this drug and cannot afford to wait until it becomes available through the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49701/14]