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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Right. So, this Bill is just private.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Another Bill has to be discussed at some stage, then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I asked the previous witness about the following also. It is the difficulty I have in terms of the regulation and inspection programmes and all of that. We talk about clinical governance and accountability. HIQA arrives in, makes an assessment based on the regulations, but clinical governance is always the one we target in terms of holding people to account. For example, we never seem to...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: This week, the Health Service Executive service plan for 2017 was published. The introduction reads well as it references expanding services and improving the quality and safety of services but when one drills down through the figures, it does not read well at all. In fact, it is another work of fiction. We have highlighted consistently in recent years that the HSE service plans are not...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I admire the Tánaiste's defence of this work of fiction but the reality is that the only thing this HSE service plan will deliver is longer waiting lists. The Tánaiste referred to additional funding of €61 million across the entire health care system over and above the headline figure, but she cannot stand up in this House and say with credibility that she will deliver on...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: It is simply not possible to sustain the activity that we are currently providing. The Tánaiste pointed out that there will be a 4.1% increase in activity across the acute hospital system, but an additional €9 million is being provided to fund that extra activity. That is simply not plausible. If the Tánaiste would accept, even at this late stage, that the funding in this...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: We have.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: First, I would like to wish everybody in the House a happy Christmas. It might be my only opportunity to do so.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I extend good wishes to Members on all sides, to the Ceann Comhairle and to all the staff. Will the Tánaiste confirm whether the House will sit tomorrow?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: This is from the teddy bear party.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: And the Deputy has not stopped talking since.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, will be very exposed so.

Other Questions: Garda Strength (16 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 8. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the increase in the number of gardaí that the Cork city division can expect in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40453/16]

Other Questions: Garda Strength (16 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I would like to ask the increase in the number of gardaí in the Cork city division we can expect in 2017.

Other Questions: Garda Strength (16 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I accept that recruitment is ongoing, and we welcome that. However, considering where we were in 2010 and where we are now, Garda numbers have nosedived in the intervening six years. We have 56 fewer gardaí than we had in 2010. When we talk about recruitment, we must assess the locations in which Garda numbers have dropped more dramatically than elsewhere. When we make appointments...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The most amazing thing in all of this is that there is almost surprise among some people that there is a housing crisis. This has been unfolding for many years and there has been no effort or intervention by the State in terms of increasing its capacity to build homes or to fund construction. There is a myriad of blockages across the system from planning to funding of developments. Local...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: We built houses as well.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (16 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons regarding whom the Revenue Commissioners provided data to the Health Service Executive under section 8 of the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act 2013 in 2015 and to date in 2016, in tabular form. [40933/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (16 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the programme for Government commitments on voluntary disclosure specifically the implementation of recommendations of the Madden commission; and if it will be made mandatory to report specified patient safety incidents or serious reportable events to the authorities and to the patient harmed, and if it will be an offence not to do so [40604/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (16 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 354. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the use of county boundaries for access to health and social services. [40605/16]