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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: In the NHS one can only visit a GP for ten minutes. Its primary care system does not seem to be working well in terms of the amount of time patients can spend with their GPs. Waiting times to see a GP seem to be extending. All that glistens is not gold in this context.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: If one has universal access but does not expand capacity, those who need it most will suffer the most.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: As an aside, I have a question about an issue that is arising frequently. I mentioned demographics and the fact that we were all getting older. There is a further requirement for us to address the issues of nursing home support, geriatric teams in the community and retaining people in the home care setting. We conducted some research and I have now seen a great deal of evidence when it was...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Yes, they have the skills. The problem is that there are not enough resources available or such GPs.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: That contract is being negotiated.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: What is the deadline for its completion?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The delegates are not allowed.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I have noticed, from following sport, that there are fewer GPs nowadays stitching or suturing than in previous times. Take ingrown toenails, for example. Traditionally, a problem with an ingrown toenail would have been dealt with by a GP in his or her practice. There seems to be-----

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I am talking about the GP's ability. It does not really pay-----

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The time limits are important for us because the GP contract will be the foundation of primary care for the next number of years and we could be reporting after the contract is agreed, which is-----

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The contract could be agreed in advance of us reporting. I know they both may be slower than we think but, at the same time, it is not a risk we can afford to take.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: When I had the pleasure of visiting St. Luke's Hospital some time ago, I got first-hand experience of what is being achieved there as opposed to what is trying to be achieved. Many issues have been raised today and questions on them have been answered. Given that the model being developed and expanded by Dr. Fawsitt and Professor Courtney and their colleagues is successful - I refer to...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I apologise to Dr. Fawsitt but may I ask a short question?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: We are talking about primary care being the main driver of health care delivery in the years ahead and that probably is a goal with which everyone present can concur. It will be part of the primary care strategy, as outlined previously, and all the rest of it. In that context, the GP contract will be of critical importance.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Obviously, the organisations that will be negotiating will be the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, and the National Association of General Practitioners, NAGP. There is a different perspective when they are negotiating from the point of view of the remunerative aspect of the contract. As for the contract, what input exists regarding clinical outcomes? How will that be assessed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Mr. Farrelly and wish him well in his appointment. As he said in his statement, it is about ensuring that the public trust the charitable sector and that moneys go to where they are meant to go. In that context, there have been some high profile cases that have done a lot of damage to the charity sector. It undermines the confidence of the public in the street donations to...

Pharmacy Fees: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I support this motion which I come at from a couple of perspectives. In tabling this motion, we are trying to send out a very strong message to the HSE that it has an obligation and a duty to ensure that it has proper auditing systems in place and that it is fully accountable both to the Committee of Public Accounts, through the Comptroller and Auditor General, and to this House generally,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (27 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serving Garda reservists that have successfully applied to become members of the Garda Síochána for each year since Garda recruitment resumed, in tabular form. [27317/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is giving consideration to the call by the Irish Dental Association to see marginal rate tax relief returned to the med 2 scheme to alleviate the burden on patients facing costly dental treatments such as orthodontics, crowns, endodontic and prosthodontic treatments and so on; if he has estimated the likely improvements in oral health as well as the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (27 Sep 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to school transport. [26468/16]