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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Will the Minister for Health provide an update on the implementation of the commitments in the programme for Government on universal health insurance and his views on whether both parties in Government remain committed to the goal of universal health insurance based on multiple insurers as opposed to universal health care? I would appreciate it if a bit of honesty could be brought to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: That is an extraordinary reply. We are back to the same old view that has been expressed by the Minister in recent times in respect of universal health care. I remind the Minister that the programme for Government states:This Government will introduce Universal Health Insurance with equal access to care for all...A system of Universal Health Insurance (UHI) will be introduced by 2016, with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: There is no such thing as ordinary backbenchers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Unfortunately, it is a case of what a tangled web we weave when first we start to deceive. There is no doubt those in government are forgetting what they have said with regard to the health policy and how it is to be funded. When announcing the White Paper on 2 April 2014, the Taoiseach stated that "Those with existing health insurance will now for the first time have primary care services...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Will the Minister once and for all tell us clearly whether he is committed to universal health insurance as opposed to universal health care? We all subscribe to the principle of universal health care. The key issue is how we fund it. Is the Minister committed to universal health insurance, as proscribed in the programme for Government?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Is the Minister referring to where we differ or where he and the Taoiseach differ?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The commitment is to primary care.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 25. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that outpatient waiting list figures published for December 2013 by the National Treatment Purchase Fund were accurate; if the data reported in waiting lists published a year later did not contradict the information published in December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27658/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 31. To ask the Minister for Health when the new national maternity strategy will be published; the timeframe in place for the relocation of the three Dublin maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27659/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 54. To ask the Minister for Health his views that the additional funding announced in April 2015 to tackle overcrowding in emergency departments in hospitals has, to date, had the impact that was envisaged; the action that will be taken to address the developing shortage of nursing home places for older persons no longer capable of living at home; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance White Paper (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 61. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish and act on the results of the costings exercise commissioned by his Department into universal health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27656/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 65. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Health Service Executive’s financial position; the net current deficit of the executive against profile at the end of June 2015; if additional expenditures announced for free general practitioner care and to tackle overcrowding in emergency departments in hospitals are reflected in this; the latest projection for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 196. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the once-off revenue measures of €330 million that he announced for the health budget in 2015, the amount of this revenue that was raised by the end of June 2015; the sources of same; and if he expects there to be any variance in the revenues raised in 2015 from his original estimate in October 2014. [28029/15]

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

Billy Kelleher: 201. To ask the Minister for Health if the embargo on dental nurses will be lifted; if so, when; the number of positions that will be filled in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28040/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 211. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will increase the staffing levels at St. Ita's in Newcastle West, County Limerick to allow this facility to be used to its full potential, and to fulfil its designated use as a palliative care and hospice unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28092/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (14 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 559. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 23 June 2015 and the failure of the Health Service Executive to answer the question sufficiently, if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of home help hours provided and how this compares to the targets set in each local health office area for each month to date in 2015. [28492/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (14 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if the application of a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the fair deal scheme will be expedited given the person's circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28499/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (14 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 580. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application under the home help scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [28542/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Expenditure (14 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 605. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount spent on medicines in each of Ireland's public hospitals in each of the years 2010 to 2014, and the estimated spend in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28698/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (14 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent by the Health Service Executive on biological medicines in each of the years 2010 to 2014, and the estimated spend in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28699/15]