Results 7,201-7,220 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: They are sleeping in cars under this Government.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: That is an endorsement.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Social mobility is a good thing.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: The Taoiseach is in Davos rubbing shoulders with millionaires and billionaires.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Today he is partaking in a debate entitled "The Rise of Populist Parties in Europe". He might have to come back here and look at the demise of one or two populist parties in Ireland.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: The CSO published a survey on income and living conditions in Ireland and, by any stretch of the imagination it makes very disturbing reading, particular as regards child poverty. Over the last weeks we have seen many announcements by Ministers and Ministers of State on commitments to be entered into over the next 18 months. In other words, these are election promises, including promise on...
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I was just stating a fact; millionaires and billionaires.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Deputy Durkan has spoken. It is time to go.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: This is a debate.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Are we having a debate on it now?
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: They are unrelated and trying to relate them makes it difficult.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has held a meeting with a company (details supplied) over the past three months to discuss the pricing issue of its product Eculizumab; the outcome of these discussions; if not, the efforts that the HSE is making to secure a price structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3097/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will reconsider the life saving treatment abroad application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois to prevent further damage to their organs owing to the delay in sanctioning the use of Eculizumab to treat their rare condition of paroxysnal nocturnal haemoglobinuria; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently waiting for the sanctioning of Eculizumab for their treatment; the length of time each patient has been waiting for a decision; when the Health Service Executive will be making a decision on these cases for this life saving treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3111/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 144. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, the maternity units that have and do not have a dedicated smoking cessation service for pregnant women; the number of women who have availed of that service in the years 2009 to 2014, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3116/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 147. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the cost benefit analysis being carried out by the Health Service Executive regarding the provision of Eculizumab on the community drugs scheme, the supports that are currently being offered to patients with this life threatening illness who are not in receipt of the treatment; if one of these patients goes into organ or multi-organ failure while...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently covered by a medical card; the number of those children who have a medical card on a discretionary basis; and the expenditure on same in 2014. [3129/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses to the committee. There is obviously an issue with the impact on the staffing of our health services in terms of consultants but equally in terms of the last point made by the IMO on the broader issue of the impact of cuts on our health service. We hear week in and week out of the pressures on front-line service providers in our emergency departments and of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (27 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 363. To ask the Minister for Health further to recent media reports, when the investigation into the severe shortage in supplies of commonly used medicines, including Eltroxin, will commence; the expected timeframe for completion of the investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3550/15]