Results 9,421-9,440 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 366. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether, for thousands of older persons across the country with high dependency care requirements, nursing home care is best suited to meet their care needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6707/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards Regulation (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the European Union’s rapid alert system for food and feed has received a notification from Ireland from 2010 to 2016 per annum, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6915/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards Regulation (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the communications he has had with his UK counterpart with regard to the UK's continued participation in the European Union’s rapid alert system for food and feed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6916/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 455. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the National Treatment Purchase Fund pre-planned list for the end of each year from 2002 to 2010, in tabular form; and the numbers waiting on the list at those times for zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 15 months, 15 to 18 months and more than 18 months. [7074/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 456. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the National Treatment Purchase Fund pre-admit list for the end of each year from 2002 to 2010, in tabular form; the numbers waiting on the list at those times for zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 15 months, 15 to 18 months and more than 18 months. [7075/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the recent agreement under which the time and one-sixth twilight payment to nurses working in the evening was restored in return for taking on tasks previously carried out by doctors; and if this payment has been restored to nurses working in all HSE and voluntary hospitals. [7107/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 458. To ask the Minister for Health if the tasks previously carried out by non-consultant hospital doctors are being undertaken by nurses in all HSE and voluntary hospitals; and if not, the details of the hospitals in which this is not happening. [7108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 507. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Healthlink referrals from general practitioners that have been classified as received but not yet acknowledged; and the average time period between receipt and acknowledgement. [7228/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (14 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 541. To ask the Minister for Health the number of scoliosis surgeries for public patients carried out in 2016; and the hospitals in which they were performed, in tabular form. [7412/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in hospitals have been reviewed in the context of minimising hospital acquired infections; if any recommendations have been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 205. To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the cooling coils for air conditioning systems in hospitals, he will provide information regarding the levels of bacterial and fungal biofilms that are found when the systems are cleaned and decontaminated; if there has ever been a report of the release of planktonic bacteria and fungi into the conditioned airstream that would add to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to the introduction of an enhanced ultraviolet germicidal irradiation within the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in hospitals to eliminate the cooling coil biofilm and entrained microbes which necessitate constant cleaning of cooling coils, drip trays, plenums, ductwork and conditioned air; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (15 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 237. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 9 February 2017, if the information provided within the National Treatment Purchase Fund preplanned list data which was not collected until 2014 is not at variance with the NTPF informing him that the way it classifies its waiting lists has been the same since its inception in 2002. [7743/17]

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Solutions are what we want. None of that sort of stuff.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Would the Deputy include People Before Profit in that?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (21 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a school (details supplied) following amalgamation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8355/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 479. To ask the Minister for Health for the position regarding the negotiations with a company (details supplied) over the provision of Orkambi; when a decision will be made by the HSE in respect of the latest proposal from the company; the timeframe he envisages the negotiations will go on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8602/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if the Cork University Maternity Hospital has a full complement of nursing staff; if not, the efforts being made to recruit; the timeframe that he expects to have the unit fully staffed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9070/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I will try to be brief. Some of the questions I had anticipated raising have already been answered. Mr. O'Brien said that this committee has very often been critical of the HSE in terms of budgets. I remind him that I have always been on his side when it comes to budgets because I have always tried to secure more funding for the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: It reminded me a little bit of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava whereby Lord Cardigan and his senior officers could be compared to the HSE being sent out to charge with inadequate resources and one inevitable outcome, namely, a budget deficit and a cutback in resources at the end of the year. In fairness, we must be honest with ourselves in terms of what can be achieved when it...