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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: Is that the normal procedure in other-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: The reality is that the woman can only opt out. She cannot opt in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: Is Dr. Ní Bhuinneáin talking about Ireland or outside it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: Dr. Ní Bhuinneáin is saying, as it stands, that women are consulted in the context of a life-saving termination taking place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: In the sense that they could request. Is Dr. Ní Bhuinneáin saying that is possible?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: There are obviously diverging views here on this fundamental issue of whether the woman has a say in requesting a termination to save her life. Dr. Ní Bhuinneáin is saying that a woman has a say and can discuss this with her clinician and they could ultimately come to a decision, but realistically it is only the clinician who can decide at the end of the day. Am I right or am I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: How much time have I got?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: I want to ask about the procurement and use of abortion pills. Do the witnesses believe that because they were involved in an illegal act and committed an offence under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, for which they can be prosecuted, that the effect on young vulnerable girls in a crisis pregnancy is so chilling that they are discouraged from accessing medical care if the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: In view of the fact that that would give us the flexibility to discuss all the options put to us by legal advisers, I second the proposal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: There is a proposal before the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak in public on this matter. The purpose of the motion that I tabled was to arrive at a situation where we could consider the Citizens' Assembly's recommendations. Tabling it was important because we were asked to consider those recommendations as part of our terms of reference. If we had just opted for a repeal simpliciter, we would have had parked the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: Additional resources have been allocated for the winter initiative next year. How much of the winter initiative planning will be based around the fact that the HSE will have additional resources from 1 January onwards? Will there be the ability to increase capacity for the number of weeks which are very pressurised in our emergency departments? One can almost predict that the first Tuesday...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: Some of the issues I would like to raise have been touched on but I would like a little more detail on them. The funding this year for the National Treatment Purchase Fund is €20 million. From what I can gather, that will increase to €55 million next year. In the context of the assessment of who should be treated through the fund and the contracts that will be entered into...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: Is it the president of HIQA that should answer that question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: I will leave it at that. Does Mr. Breslin not accept that some of the section 39 organisations are quite large employers, very large employers in some cases, providing significant services in areas, in particular intellectual and physical disability, and there seems to be no appreciation either from the Department or the HSE of what they have to do on a daily basis to try and comply with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: Could those involved in the National Treatment Purchase Fund not be asked to make the same inquiry of patients regarding private health insurance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: Is it in the public interest for the HSE or the Department of Health to encourage or advertise the fact that people who have private health insurance may be entitled to treatment under their private health insurance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: What can we do in the short to medium term given that public resources are scarce? What Senator Burke said is correct. Some people may not fully comprehend what they are entitled to in their health insurance.
- Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Oct 2017)
Billy Kelleher: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the opportunity to present this Bill to the House and hope it receives broad support in terms of what we are trying to achieve. Its purpose is to make it a legislative requirement that there be a statutory declaration by consultants, clinicians and other medical practitioners who receive gifts or donations from pharmaceutical...