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Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (15 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 445. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers waiting for orthodontic treatment at the end of September 2016, based on local health office and area and indicating the numbers of those aged 16 years and under and those aged more than 16 years, in tabular form. [34453/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raises this issue. I do not often come into this Chamber and play emotional cards but I met a group, the Scoliosis Advocacy Network, the members of which are campaigning on behalf of their children and other children. I will put one or two case studies on the record. I have given the individuals pseudonyms to protect their...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for her reply, but I genuinely believe that even the deadlines mentioned by her are not good enough for many of the children I have mentioned. The Minister talks about July for Tallaght Hospital and international recruitment of theatre nurses for the new theatre in Our Lady's Children's Hospital. Everybody knew this theatre was being built - it was happening before our...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: It was like the speeches the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, used to make when he was over on this side.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. We have had numerous debates in recent years on health insurance. There have been lots of changes in recent years, including legislation, the establishment of the Health Insurance Authority, amending legislation on a regular basis, the establishment of the community lifetime rating and other welcome decisions. The entire health...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Mass protests.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I will go through questions quickly because of time constraints. There is the issue of private health care funding and targets being set. Will the witnesses elaborate on that, although it has been discussed already in terms of targets? Deputy O'Reilly referred to this. If the hospitals are full and running a big budget deficit, to be honest any accountant would say they should be filled...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: It is not obligatory to account to that board, is it?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: If there are five PET or MRI scanners to be purchased, for example, would the easier thing not be to have a centralised contract so the equipment would be leased as opposed to trying to capital purchase these things? They could then be given to the groups and they would be contracted for maintenance and repair works like the real world does it.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Is the 20% still cast in stone?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: We have asked Mr. O'Brien this. We have asked everybody. If 100 people go to a particular emergency department on a day, 70 of them go home and 30 are admitted, for either diagnostics or treatment. What we would like to know is the information of all of the people who presented that day.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: We want to know what they presented with and why they were there. They did not just walk in because they wanted to visit the emergency department. Were they referred by a GP? Did they just present themselves? Have they chronic illnesses? Have they chronic disease? Is any of that information available?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I will make some brief points. I raised some of my questions with the other hospital groups earlier. It is not that I have less interest in the groups that are before the committee now; it is just that the previous groups responded to my questions and I do not think the answers of the groups before us now would be very different. I would like to put my first question to Ms Day and her...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: For example, there is talk that the emergency department in Our Lady's Hospital in Navan will eventually be moved to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. That is fairly loose talk around the place and I am quite sure it is policy behind the scenes but we will find that out eventually. It is just the location of Navan itself. It is in County Meath and is nearer the RCSI group. It is...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: If we cannot even get the hospital groups right, we may as well all go home now.

Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: This morning on "Morning Ireland" emergency medicine consultant, Dr. Fergal Hickey, said, "people are going to die as a result". He went on to say, "that is not scaremongering, it is a prediction of what is going to happen". Only six weeks ago, a €40 million winter initiative was announced and it was targeted to ensure there would not be overcrowding in our emergency departments...

Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: There is a certain amount of live horse and eat grass in the Minister's response. This investment in the future is not addressing the immediate problems of patients waiting on trolleys in our emergency departments. The winter initiative was to address the problems of overcrowding in emergency departments through the winter months. In November, there are 528 people on trolleys. There will...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Section 12 of the Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 provides for the transfer to the Policing Authority of the appointment of persons to the ranks of assistant Garda commissioner, chief superintendent and superintendent. The section has not commenced. When is that likely to happen? If it happens, will the members of the Garda...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Could I not just squeeze in a second one?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: It is related. It is another crime Bill. The heads of the Bill were published in 2005. When will it be published?