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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: We welcome Mr. O'Brien again. We know there are restrictions on what an Oireachtas committee can say and on discussing issues in great detail, which arose as a result of the Abbeylara judgment, so we will keep our comments generic. Mr. O'Brien and his colleagues are the collective leadership of the HSE and have responsibility for the HSE. In our detailed discussion this morning, Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: We have had six reports to date, and we always believed that the recommendations in those reports were to be implemented across all health service provision in the areas they affected. It is difficult to accept that this is a watershed. It will be a watershed, a defining period, if there is full and prompt action. I do not want to lay all blame at the door of the HSE. There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: In terms of inquests and the HSE, I have spoken to some families who said, and some of the families present stated it also, there was always an encouragement by the HSE to initiate court proceedings and seek compensation. The view that could be drawn is that by doing that, the very minute papers are served on the HSE, any internal investigations are suspended for that duration. Also, if one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to refer briefly to the question I raised earlier. On page 47 of the HIQA report it says-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: No, it is a question I raised earlier. I would like an answer to it. I was watching on the monitor and I do not think it was referred to. The report states, in summary, that at the time of the investigation Portlaoise was not resourced as a model 3 hospital, that it was excluded from the smaller hospital framework, and that it was awaiting its role within the hospital group set out by the...

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I move:“That Dáil Éireann: extends its deepest sympathies to the parents and families of babies that died at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise; deplores the manner in which they were treated by the Health Service Executive (HSE) in the aftermath of their loss; notes:— the publication of the recent Report of the investigation into the safety, quality and...

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I am sharing time with Deputy Fleming and Deputy Keaveney, with 15 minutes, ten minutes and 15 minutes respectively. The motion condemns the withholding and concealment of information from the families. The Minister referred publically to these families being lied to, a very serious charge and something that needs to be addressed. At the end of the day behind all of our debates,...

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: On a point of information, I did not ignore it. The Minister is responding with a prepared script and should acknowledge what I have said.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 527. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) from a member of An Garda Síochána regarding his pension entitlements. [20682/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Administration (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 614. To ask the Minister for Health when a refund of prescription charges will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who holds a long-term illness card and who paid prescription charges for medicines dispensed in respect of her long-term illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19886/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 654. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be provided with an appointment for an eye test at Cork University Hospital. [20125/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 676. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2010 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the whole-time equivalent number of obstetricians employed in each of the 19 maternity units (details supplied); and the same details for locum appointments. [20301/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Reports (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 697. To ask the Minister for Health his views on claims made by parents of babies who died at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, County Laois, at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children on 19 May 2015 that the director general of the Health Service Executive is misinforming the public about these events, that the executive management team is clearly incapable and cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 700. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, County Laois, has been designated as a model 3 hospital; his views on the Health Information and Quality Authority’s assertion that the hospital has not been resourced to safely provide services at a level that would be expected of a model 3 hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 723. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, by county or local health office area for each year from 2011 to 2014, the number of persons in methadone programmes. [20601/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 731. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of verbal and physical abuse allegations reported from 1990 to date in 2015; the number that have been investigated; the number that have gone before the criminal courts, and of these, the number of health care employees who were convicted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20679/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Register Administration (26 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 732. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of verbal and physical abuse allegations reported from 1990 to date in 2015 to the Irish Medical Council; the number that went to formal investigation by the council; the number of persons who were struck off the medical register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20680/15]

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: He has even lost the will to fight at this stage.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I think the rams have become hoggets.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Billy Kelleher: It is; the Deputy is dead right.