Results 8,701-8,720 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (24 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for home help by local health office area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11235/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (24 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for speech and language therapy assessment for less than four months, for four months plus to 12 and for 12 plus months by local authority in tabular form. [11588/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (24 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 629. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to increase funding for Foróige, following reductions imposed on it over the past number of years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11700/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (25 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 244. To ask the Minister for Health to set out in tabular form the names and contact details of all officials who give approval for home care companies in each local health office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11910/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (25 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 257. To ask the Minister for Health to provide funding for the website, family.ie, for the provision of services in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12002/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 17 May 2016, if he is considering the issuing of a roll number to a school (details supplied). [12250/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (26 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the cost-analysis figures for the socio-economic burden of hospital acquired infection; the comparative figures for other European Union countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12324/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (26 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the average sums the Health Service Executive paid for a typical course of fidaxomicin, vancomycin and other drugs used for persons infected with Clostridium difficile and methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, in hospitals under its control, by patient, in each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (26 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the sums the Health Service Executive paid for fidaxomicin, vancomycin and other drugs in treating patients for infection with Clostridium difficile and methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, in hospitals under its control in each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12326/16]

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (31 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 to allow interchangeability between biologic and biosimilar medical goods.

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (31 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (31 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: This short Bill would amend the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 in two ways. First, it would allow prescribers, consultants and doctors to choose biosimilar drugs or biologics instead of the existing medicines. The second part of the Bill would allow prescribers to prescribe new diagnosed patients with generic more affordable medicines instead of the branded products.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (31 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to his reply to Question No. 134 of 28 April 2016, if he will, for the years 2008 to 2015, repeat and expand on the information in the table to his reply (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13368/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (31 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 360. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will release Leader funding to the Avondhu and Blackwater local action groups in County Cork. [12504/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant Closure (31 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 706. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reintroduce the motorised transportation grant and if so when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13202/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (31 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 679. To ask the Minister for Health the net increase in whole-time equivalent terms in the number of nurses employed in all acute hospitals to date in 2016 in tabular form; the number of nursing vacancies in each hospital at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12798/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport Expenditure (31 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 687. To ask the Minister for Health the sums paid by the Health Service Executive by hospital under its control regarding the acquisition costs of transporting patients in taxi services, bus services, private ambulance services and HSE owned ambulance services for the past five years by category in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12899/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (31 May 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 708. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to update and amend the Misuse of Drugs Act to deal with prescription drugs. [13208/16]

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (1 Jun 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I congratulate the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, and wish them success with their portfolios. Fianna Fáil supports this motion because we believe we need a discussion at both parliamentary and societal level about how we should fund health care in the years ahead. We talk about universality and access to health care as a right and entitlement but we must...

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (1 Jun 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I look forward to embracing the spirit of this motion but we should focus on a few areas in the short term in order to encourage the Government to change its policy direction on access to health care, as well as develop a vision for the delivery of health care in the years ahead.