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

Billy Kelleher: The Minister is quite right and nobody on this side of the House is suggesting that we should abandon the decongregated settings policy that has been in place for a period of time. The issue here is to ensure that there are full assessments carried out on the individuals, that there are supports in place when the individuals move out to the communities and that those supports are committed...

Other Questions: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 6. To ask the Minister for Health when he will be publishing a plan for advancing neuro-rehabilitation services in the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38011/16]

Other Questions: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: When will the Minister for Health publish a plan for advancing neuro-rehabilitation services in the community? By any stretch of the imagination, when we consider the level of service available to people with stroke, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, we are light years away from what is necessary. In the context of a capital development plan next year, the...

Other Questions: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister of State is aware of the shortage but I want to put on the record that 25,000 people a year require some form of rehabilitative services. Most of them struggle just to get the basic services. Ireland should have 270 beds for its population but we have less than half that number, and none outside Dublin. We have been campaigning for a long time - in the context of...

Other Questions: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I have asked the questions and I thank the Minister of State for the answers but the broader issue is that there must be some regional development of services. We cannot have them located in just one area of the country, which puts huge pressure on families that have to travel long distances over a protracted period. Many families do not have much hope that their loved ones will even get...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Can I ask a supplementary question?

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: This question asks the Minister what he will put in place to assist the 4,038 persons waiting more than 18 months for an outpatient appointment in Cork hospitals and if he will make a statement on the matter. We have been highlighting this for some time. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan has been consistently raising the issue of the problems with gynaecological services in Cork. To give the...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the fact the Minister will visit the hospital and I do not suggest he is doing so just as a photo opportunity. I hope he will recognise the difficulties and challenges facing staff. However, there are a few problems we know about in advance of his visit. The CUMH has only one gynaecology theatre in operation. There is a huge opportunity because the infrastructure is in place for...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this and I compliment Deputy Gino Kenny for tabling the Bill. It is timely and it can be accepted before being amended and improved if there is concern about some elements of the Bill. Fianna Fáil supports the overall principle of the Bill. The Minister has indicated the HPRA will revert with an expert opinion on the issue of medicinal cannabis....

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 27. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE service plan for 2017 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38012/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 51. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of bed capacity in the acute hospital sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38010/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 83. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s estimated impact on waiting times of the additional €15 million in 2017 for the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38014/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 92. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the fall in the take up of the human papilloma virus, HPV, vaccine; the estimated number of deaths annually from cervical cancer that would result from a halving of the uptake of the vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38013/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 223. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage breakdown in terms of public and private treatment in each hospital in each hospital group to date in 2016 in tabular form. [38119/16]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I do not know whether the Minister of State's attention has been brought to the starter packs that are now on sale, which include some cigarettes and loose tobacco for a person to roll his or her own cigarettes. They are packaged in a typical cigarette pack. I will furnish the details to the Minister of State, although I accept it is a bit late to address the issue in the context of the...

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Fianna Fáil will be supporting this Bill and welcomes the fact that it is before the House for debate. This has been a long time in gestation. It has been discussed for a long time in various Dáleanna over the years and there have been Private Members' Bills on it as far back as 2007, if memory serves me right. We are now in a position where we can move this legislation through...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (6 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reports that have been commissioned by him since his appointment; the number that have been received by him; the number outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38377/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (6 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 296. To ask the Minister for Health the number and cost of all reports commissioned by him, his predecessors, or his Department, in each of the years 2011 to date in 2016 in tabular form; the topics they are investigating; the date of completion; the date of publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38378/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (6 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings that have taken place with the chief executive officer of the HSE, or other senior HSE directors, since his appointment; the decisions taken as a result of those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38379/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (6 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 298. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the current activities being undertaken as part of the 2016-2017 winter initiative; the amount that has been expended to date; the amount that remains from the originally allocated budget; the progress that has been made in terms of reducing the number of persons waiting on trolleys; and if he will make a statement on the...