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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 598. To ask the Minister for Health when the bed capacity review is starting or if it has started; the detail of its terms of reference; the stakeholders that have been consulted; if they will be liaised with during the review; and if the review will be directed to have a particular model of care in mind in making any recommendations of bed capacity. [11804/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 603. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 455 of 24 January 2017, the number of exemptions sought to date in 2017 from the law on the usage of cannabis for medicinal purposes. [11852/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 632. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a vaccination programme for children born before 1 October 2016 to receive meningitis B and rotavirus immunisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12137/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. There is a lot of emotive debate around this topic. A woman from Cork is coming to the Dáil today, and it is important that we acknowledge the work and effort she has put into campaigning on this particular issue. However, just because people are campaigning does not mean that what is being sought can be provided by political decisions. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Does it have THC in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: If a licence were to be granted by the Minister on compassionate grounds, would a ratio of tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, and cannabidiol, CBD, be included in the licensing arrangement or is that a matter for the clinician? Who decides the ratio of THC to CBD?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Legislative Reviews (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 14. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the Health (Amendment) Act 2013, specifically in respect of its impact on the hospital sector. [12346/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Legislative Reviews (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I am in training so my oxygen levels are not too bad. Does the Minister have any plans regarding the Health (Amendment) Act 2013, specifically in respect of its impact on the hospital sector and the concerns about the treatment of private patients in public hospitals? I know he has made an announcement since I tabled the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Legislative Reviews (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the fact that there will be a review, which we requested. There are concerns about this. It has been brought to my attention by some health care providers in the private sector that there is now competition in certain areas in trying to attract private patients and treating them on public beds. The concept of the 20% designation in public hospitals with treatment of private...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Legislative Reviews (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: One should never ask the fox to carry out an inspection of the fence around the hen house, but that is what the Minister is doing in respect of the Department of Health on this occasion. It is a policy decision of the Department of Health to bring forward the 2013 Act, which allows for a designation of all beds in public hospitals for private patients. There is no doubt, even in the context...

Other Questions: Hospital Beds Data (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 20. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the hospital bed capacity review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12078/17]

Other Questions: Hospital Beds Data (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to ask the Minister for Health about the status of the bed capacity review. I have raised this issue on a number of occasions and I would like to know the status of the review and where we are in the context of the terms of reference. Who will be independently validating the bed capacity review, particularly in view of the fact that for many years it was the policy of the Department...

Other Questions: Hospital Beds Data (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for his reply. The fact that there is outside oversight in the context of the bed capacity review is welcome. Let us be under no illusions. For the past six years, the policy of the Department of Health, regardless of which Minister was defending it, has been to reduce the capacity of beds in the public hospital system. This policy was robustly defended for a long...

Other Questions: Hospital Beds Data (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister. While we are asking questions in the context of the bed capacity review, there is not much point, as the Minister stated previously, in having the beds if we do not have blankets and mattresses. More important is the staff for these beds. Will that feed in to the assessment of the manpower requirements, training programmes and all that flows from that report;...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Staff (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I will read an extract from a letter sent from a medical centre in my constituency to the HSE about the same issue:My colleagues and I at the [health centre] are extremely alarmed and worried at the lack of a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in our area [the north Lee area] ... we have no access to appropriate Psychiatric intervention for the seriously distressed child or...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to share my time with Deputies Jack Chambers and Eugene Murphy.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: We will be supporting the Bill. We thank the Minister for bringing it to the House in a reasonably timely fashion on foot of the commitments that were made in the programme for Government and the negotiations in that context. This measure was contained in most parties' manifestos in the run up to last year's general election. However, that is as far as I can go in welcoming it. This...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: If the Minister does not believe me, I am afraid they have pulled the wool over his eyes as well-----

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: -----because that is what they are at. The bluff is continuing. The IMO and the boys are inside, they are sitting down and they will start scratching each other's backs. The Department of Health, the IMO and others have no interest in negotiating a new contract. They are just tinkering with the old one. I urge the Minister to consider this.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: To live up to their promises.