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Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Does the Taoiseach remember the time he pushed Ursula Halligan out of the way?

Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I do not think any of you were at the Moriarty Tribunal.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: There might be plenty of pawns of Denis O'Brien over there.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion before the Dáil. The reason we are here is because of the tenacity of a Deputy in pursuing an issue of public interest. Deputy Murphy pursued it through tabling numerous parliamentary questions. Unfortunately, they were not answered in accordance with what would be accepted standard norms, which is why we are having the debate this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 642. To ask the Minister for Health if exact waiting times for each Health Service Executive area are available for mastectomy prosthesis and surgical bras, swimsuits and so on, if so, if he will provide same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21246/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 645. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that under the Health Service Executive service plan 2015 money was allocated for four mental health High Observation Units, if he will provide the location of these units; the amount that has been spent on each unit; the status of said units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21264/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Availability (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 656. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Barrymore programme at the Stanhope Centre, Lower Grangegorman, Dublin 7 will not go ahead as planned in June 2015 and the service provider at the Centre has been forced, by lack of funding, to advise participants that the unique addiction course is cancelled; the action he will take to ensure the June 2015 course goes...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 667. To ask the Minister for Health the exclusivity agreement currently in place between the Health Service Executive and a recruitment company (details supplied); if the company is unable to provide 100% of agency nurses, if other agencies are allowed help provide the necessary numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21401/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 700. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available for Happy Talk Cork City Partnership Ltd, to assist with its three-year plan catering for the speech and language needs of Mayfield and the Glen in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21629/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 750. To ask the Minister for Health his plans extend the powers of the Health Information and Quality Authority, the Ombudsman or other State agencies to investigate individual complaints in private nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21763/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion (9 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for publishing the report. I have read the summary, the recommendations and some of the conclusions and findings. The individual testimonies certainly highlight some of the trauma people have to endure. Mr. Gorman referred to a call by civil society to repeal the eighth amendment. I cannot recall a time when we ever had a civil debate on this matter,...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: That is some confidence in the Government.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Over four years into this Government's term of office, we still have no proper roll-out of universal access to general practitioners, GPs. This was a stated Government policy. We learned as late as yesterday that a reported 50% of GPs have signed up for the under sixes contract. The figure is as low as 8% in County Tipperary. It stands at 32% in parts of Cork city and county. The figures...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The same type of circumstance was repeated in Limerick in recent weeks. Given that we are talking about investing in primary care and keeping chronic illness and disease in the primary care setting, will the Tánaiste not accept that the Government's policy of rolling out universal access to GPs is in rag order?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: It is certainly shambolic from the point of view that four years have passed since the Government started to roll out this programme, but less than half of the GPs in the country are getting involved in it and just half of the people of this country will have access to GP services in the next few weeks and months. There is huge uncertainty out there. Could we have some clarity? Will the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: If the 50% rate mentioned by the Tánaiste is in line with the Government's aspiration, it is a very poor effort. The provision of universal access to GPs for everybody is a stated policy in the programme for Government that was formulated in March 2011, which said that everybody in the country would have access to GP care free of charge. We were told there would be universality across...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: He has been entrusted with making some effort to address the problems being faced in the health service on a daily basis. It is getting progressively worse. Over 400,000 people are waiting to see a consultant. The Taoiseach promised in 2011 to reduce the number of trolleys but there is a crisis every day in the emergency departments. The Government accepts that to have 350 or 400 people...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste should not talk about promises. She is on weak ground.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste’s Government promised to get rid of it but it is still there.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Billy Kelleher: That is not true.