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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (18 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend third level grants to low-income students who attend QQI degree courses in recognised private colleges, as well as access to the HEA hardship fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30239/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Research (18 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 385. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the level of investment for cancer trials in the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30201/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 387. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for assessment for a possible surgical treatment. [30208/16]

Services and Supports for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: This is a long and detailed motion but it is also non-contentious and I compliment Deputy Mary Butler for her work in researching and formulating it. Many organisations advocate on behalf of people with dementia, Alzheimer's disease and other neurological illnesses. We are tabling the motion to give everybody the chance to plan ahead for what is going to be an avalanche of challenges for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 11 October 2016, if he will provide a list of companies that have signed up to this agreement as it appears that not all companies are complying to this agreement and families of disabled persons are now concerned over the unknown cost of disposing of incontinence wear,...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Professor Keane. I was around for some of the debates on the implementation of the cancer care strategy and there was, by and large, buy-in for the project. This was for a number of reasons, primary among them being that our cancer care was not what it should have been or what we as an ambitious country had hoped it to be. Let us be clear, in that we were coming from a low base,...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: There are proposals to ensure such bodies are regulated in the same way as the public sector.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: No.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: He is doing a head count.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: That was a reasonably good audition.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (20 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the negotiations between the Health Service Executive's National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and a pharmaceutical company (details supplied) regarding the drug Orkambi; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31265/16]

Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The Business Committee is unrepresentative.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to share time with Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin. I welcome the opportunity to speak on an issue that has been discussed in the House on numerous occasions, sometimes in a very confrontational manner. In recent times, the tone, manner and language used in debates on this issue have changed in a positive way. The Bill proposes the simple deletion of Article 43.3.3° and many...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the new vaccination schedule for the primary care immunisation programme which includes rotavirus and meningococcal B will commence on 1 December 2016; if agreement has been reached with all relevant parties for the implementation of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31950/16]

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Is that a promise?

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Finance Bill that will enact the legislative changes announced in the budget itself. At the outset, let us be clear: this was not a very inspiring budget by any stretch of the imagination. It was cautious and safe in the sense that there were no imaginative proposals in it in the context of the challenges we face as a country and society, where we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a product (details supplied) has been removed from the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32175/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Disability Tenders (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 125. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the current private sector tendering process in the residential disability sector; his plans to extend more open commissioning to the charitable sectors 38 and 39 providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32232/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 126. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need for more private sector providers and private sector capital to complete the actions of the HSE’s report, Time to Move on from Congregated Settings – A Strategy for Community Inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32233/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 127. To ask the Minister for Health the current private sector proportion of the HSE budget compared with charitable sector; the way this figure compares with other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32234/16]