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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a specific timeframe and commitment in respect of when updated cost of care figures for public nursing units will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6373/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is lack of transparency in respect of the cost of care under the nursing home support scheme, in respect of public nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6374/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 181. To ask the Minister for Health his views on recent comments (details supplied) by the Minister of State with responsibility for older persons regarding the severe financial pressures upon public nursing homes to meet Health Information and Quality Authority physical environment standards, and the July 2015 deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6375/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 182. To ask the Minister for Health his views on recent comments by the Minister of State with responsibility for older persons and the director general of the Health Service Executive regarding major works required to bring the executive's long-stay residential care facilities into compliance with the physical environment standards set by the Health Information and Quality Authority, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for funding from Daughters of Charity Disability Support Services to open a children’s residential house at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 7 has been received; if the application was successful; if not, the reasons provided by the Health Service Executive for not accepting the application; and if he will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and the officials. I would like to ask Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Breslin about an article in The Irish Timestoday which refers to the €1.4 billion increase sought last year in the allocation for the budget to provide safe clinical care in our health services. Reference was made to the debacle associated with probity and medical cards and many other dysfunctional areas....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: That is why we are not able to get at the full truth at the Estimates meetings. I refer to Government policy on universal health insurance. I have a question for the Secretary General, Mr. Breslin. Is universal health insurance still being actively assessed, costed and verified? What is the Department doing to address and consider that central Government policy? I have a question for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Chairman is rushing me. It is not often I get a chance to ask questions with such a group of people in front of me. I have a question for Mr. O'Brien on the more focused issue of consultants' pay and the need to fill a large number of vacant posts. I refer to the remuneration package in the context of attracting or retaining consultants compared to other countries. We are losing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Is it Dr. Nash who will decide which cases are appropriate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: What about the National Association of General Practitioners?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Before the election, will a detailed policy document be published on universal health insurance to allow for a proper adjudication on what it will entail? The Minister stated his aim was to provide a realistic budget for the health services for 2015. Is it realistic considering what was stated this morning? As Mr. O’Brien stated this morning, if we are to continue with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 336. To ask the Minister for Health when an application from a person (details supplied) in County Cork, for their need of assessment, made in July 2014 will be arranged; the reason they have been waiting so long for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6927/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 381. To ask the Minister for Health if he satisfied with the inquiry currently underway at Portiuncula Hospital in County Galway; the independence of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6933/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance at the end of 2014 in the age groups, 17 years and under, 18 to 29 years, 30 to 39 years, 40 to 49 years, 50 to 59 years, 60 to 69 years, 60 to 79 years, 80 years and over. [7081/15]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 1:In page 7, line 27, to delete “20 May 2017” and substitute “20 July 2015”. I echo other speakers in saying the Minister has my full support, and that of my party, in the context of his crusade against tobacco consumption and the need to reduce it substantially in this country. Some of the initial figures indicate that we are making slow...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I accept the Minister's statement that, on the advice of the Attorney General, we must be seen to be acting proportionately and that the industry must have time to respond. I am quite definite in my own view from research that the industry would be well able to respond adequately within that timeframe. In Australia, it was able to respond within two months of the legislation's enactment....

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 2:In page 7, line 28, to delete "20 May 2016" and substitute "20 May 2015".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 3:In page 7, line 34, to delete "20 May 2017" and substitute "20 July 2015".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 4:In page 8, line 35, after "shape” to insert the following:"being not more and not less than a height of 8.5 centimetres, a width of 5.5 centimetres and a depth of 2 centimetres". We have probably had a similar debate in the context of alcohol advertising and all that flows from it. Companies want to be able to stand out from the crowd on the shelf when selling...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Is the Minister saying an EU directive will limit the size of packs?