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

Billy Kelleher: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided to date in 2016, by local health area, in tabular form. [36826/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (24 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the distances that have been travelled by emergency ambulances currently in service by HSE region and subdivided by every 80,000 km, in tabular form; the distances that have been travelled by intermediate care ambulances currently in service; the distances that have been travelled by rapid response vehicles currently in service in such a capacity; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Ms Twomey and the other witnesses. In the broader context, there is an ongoing debate within the regulatory authority, in society and among clinicians and physicians about the benefits that may arise from the use of cannabinoids to treat epilepsy and other ailments. A Bill relating to this issue will be debated in the Dáil next week. Perhaps that will open up a wider debate...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 1:In page 8, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following:“(c) by the insertion of the following paragraph:“3. In the case of any emergency hormonal contraception included on the Reimbursement List that is normally available without prescription, there shall be no requirement that a prescription be presented in order for patients to be reimbursed under the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I withdraw the amendment, but Deputy Clare Daly retains the right to reintroduce it on Report Stage for further consideration.

Select Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"(d) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (4), inserted by section 3 of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2016:"(5) The Minister, shall by 1 February 2017, direct the Health Insurance Authority to carry out a review of the impact of changing the specified rate set out in section 125A...

Select Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for his detailed reply. In view of his explanation as to why he cannot accept it, I withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: This is a fundamental shift in the principle underpinning health insurance in terms of risk equalisation and intergenerational solidarity. The Schedule outlines the amounts applicable after 1 April 2017. There is an issue if we consistently reward insurers to ensure they do not cherry-pick. Has there been any policy discussion about the issue of rewarding insurers that take on high risk...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (29 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that prescribed low-protein foods are required to prevent neurological damage and to supplement the diet of adults and children with phenylketonuria (PKU) and homocystenuria (HCU); if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that no new low-protein products have been added to the long-term illness card...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 526. To ask the Minister for Health to set down in tabular form the number of hospitals which have acute medical assessment units; the number of days per week and hours per day they are open; and the estimated cost of opening all on a 24-7 basis. [37030/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (29 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 609. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 18 October 2016 and the outcome of the HSE report that has yet to be received, if he will consent to an independent inquiry once all parties have examined the findings of the report as is the desire of the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37620/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (29 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 631. To ask the Minister for Health further to the OECD publication Health at a Glance 2016 published on 23 November 2016 and in view of the methodological notes and the discussion on comparability on page 120, if Ireland’s public expenditure per capita on pharmaceuticals is validly and definitively characterised as the second highest in the OECD; if not, the reason therefor; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (30 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of additional funding (details supplied) that has been allocated to section 38, 39 and private not-for-profit disability services; the amount of this funding that has been allocated to HSE managed and run disability services and private for profit disability agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37911/16]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the interesting contributions. Deputy Kate O'Connell raised the issue of lease maintenance contracts for high-value and diagnostic equipment across the HSE. The new children's hospital will be in the frame of lease maintenance contracts. I do not know why it has not percolated beyond in terms of capital spend and capital investment in plant. I would like to tease out hospital...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Beds Data (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of bed capacity in the hospital sector will take place; if the review will be independent of the HSE; if those persons conducting the review will be asked to examine Ireland’s public bed capacity in the context of both the position in other OECD countries and the bed-occupancy levels that obtain in those countries; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Beds Data (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I have raised this issue previously, particularly in respect of ensuring that the review will be independent and at one remove from the HSE in order that there can be no accusations of agendas being set, of demands on the State for extra bed capacity or that the HSE would try to cover up failings in the system in terms of the planning problems it may have encountered regarding demands for bed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Beds Data (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: We heard evidence from Mr. Tony O'Brien at yesterday's meeting of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare on the future needs of health care provision and the investment requirements. It is quite alarming, taking into account the demographics and the changing nature of how we will provide medical care in the years ahead, that our capacity system could just fall over. It is important that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Beds Data (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: In view of the fact the Minister has given a commitment that it will be benchmarked against best international practice and that there will be comparisons with standards in other countries, we need to take into account where we believe health care will be going in the years ahead in terms of primary care, community care and feeding into the acute hospital system, as well as, for example, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Support Services Provision (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: What is the status of the implementation of the congregated settings report, the number of persons that have left congregated settings to date in 2016, the measures in place to support persons when they leave the residential institutions? Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the concerns among the relatives of many of those persons who leave those institutions that the support...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Support Services Provision (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: There is not a Deputy in this House who has not met families and individuals who are being decongregated from institutions. That is a broad policy and it is supported. The difficulty is that when a policy becomes a target-setting exercise, very quickly the individuals get left behind. I would be concerned that the focus on targets the whole time and the pressure on the HSE to achieve the...