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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the number of senior citizens in Dublin Central who have been denied a medical card or had their medical card renewal refused, and the number of applications, refusals and rejections for medical cards in the relevant local health offices for Dublin Central for persons over 65 years of age in the past five years; why a person in (details...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on medicines, by public hospital, in each of the years 2010 to 2015 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3725/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the number and list of general practitioners, GPs, who have signed up to the proposed scheme of free GP care for children under six years of age, by county, in tabular form. [3726/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been issued with a unique health identifier since the Health Identifiers Act 2014 was passed, by local health office, in tabular form. [3880/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 290. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form and by public and voluntary hospital between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2015 the revenue raised from charges for private patients in public beds; the same details for 2014 and 2013; if he will provide in tabular form and by public and voluntary hospital the number of procedures from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in the Health Service Executive and in section 38 organisations funded by the executive on 1 January in each of the years from 2012 to 2016. [3882/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 292. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages provided and the number of persons benefiting from these by local health office in 2015 and the estimate for 2016, in tabular form. [3883/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Draft Regulations on the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005: Motion (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: As the Minister has provided a precise clarification as to the reasons the motion has been brought before the joint committee, I have no difficulty with the proposal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I wish Professor Kilkelly well. It is always nice when somebody appears before the committee and one only has to casually peruse his or her curriculum vitae to realise the appointment is based on merit, expertise and ability. It is important to acknowledge that. We should move to a point where people being appointed to important positions in public administration have competency and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2016)

Billy Kelleher: On foot of listening to Professor Kilkelly's presentation we might make a representation to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, that bastion of flexibility, to ask it to consider looking at the issues that were raised. I suggest we do this on foot of what we heard as opposed to a request being made by the chairperson designate.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 57. To ask the Minister for Health why the undertakings on universal health insurance and the introduction of free general practitioner care for the whole population, the two key health commitments in the 2011 programme for Government, were not honoured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4093/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: If the Taoiseach comes to the Dáil, I will be happy to give way to him at any stage during my question. I want to ask the Minister for Health why the undertakings on universal health insurance and the introduction of the free GP scheme for the whole population, which were the two central planks of the Government's policy in 2011, have not been fulfilled? The Minister has abandoned...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: A cursory glance at the programme for Government and an analysis of it with the benefit of five years of hindsight shows it is a catalogue of failure. The two central tenets of health care delivery in Ireland were to be universal health insurance and free GP care for everybody. There has been an abandonment of the universal health insurance model as was outlined. It appears to have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: It is a fact.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Everybody accepts that primary care is the way to address the challenges being faced in the delivery of health care. The Minister himself has consistently stated that if it is possible to increase the capacity of the primary care system or to enhance the ability to deal with chronic disease and chronic illness, it will have an impact on overcrowding in the emergency departments. The point I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Fine Gael has the five point plan.

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 65. To ask the Minister for Health why the overcrowding in hospital emergency departments has not seen a significant improvement despite the initiatives taken during 2015; if the €100 million shortfall in the funding for hospitals will have a detrimental impact on access to emergency department and scheduled waiting list targets in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Why has the overcrowding in hospital emergency departments not seen any significant improvement despite the plethora of announcements made last year, the establishment of the emergency department task force, the move to address the issue of the shortage of nursing homes and the increase and enhancement in the fair deal scheme to move people from an acute hospital setting into community...

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Many of this Government's policies on health are based on crossed fingers and a wing and a prayer because as we start into February 2016 we know full well that the acute hospital system is already underfunded. It will not have the capacity to deal with what presents, either through the emergency department or in the area of elective surgery, and that is already happening. There were...

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister will always pick the lowest number.