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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (21 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 427. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue raised from charges for private patients in public beds; the number of procedures in each hospital which has treated private patients in public beds; and the number of applications for payment by the insurer that were submitted by each hospital for such procedures carried out by public and-or voluntary hospital, in each of the years 2013 to 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (21 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 532. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the length of time children in Dublin south city LHO and the catchment areas of Rathmines, Terenure and Rathfarnham are waiting to be allocated a social worker, in respect of cases, including high priority cases, of child protection and children in care. [49225/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (21 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 533. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the length of time children in Cork south Lee LHO and the catchment area of Douglas are waiting to be allocated a social worker, in respect of cases, including high priority cases, of child protection and children in care. [49232/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Dental Services (21 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to give dental hygienists a dental treatment benefit contract in order to allow persons avail of a free scale and polish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49207/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the enforcement measures in place with regard to the 80/20 public private split in hospitals; if it is departmental policy to allow individual hospitals to disregard this rule as long as the overall hospital group comes in around the target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49599/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 171. To ask the Minister for Health when the next HSE performance report will be published. [49600/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the Minister and Mr. Breslin. The Committee on the Future of Healthcare spent considerable time drafting the Sláintecare report. I appreciate the work done by the Chairman and secretariat in providing support to the committee, members of the committee and the witnesses who appeared before it. The report includes timelines to which we hope the system will adhere, regardless...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Is there a potential conflict of interest between the HSE and the consultants in view of that fact that stretched budgets are now an integral part of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: It there a potential conflict of interest between the HSE overseeing the implementation of the contract and the fact that some of these consultants are doing a lot of private work through the public hospital system, which, in effect, funds the public hospitals through the stretched budgets that are demanded of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister said the responsibility is with the Department to carry out audits if the contracts are not being adhered to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I am not singling out the Minister. It is the system. No one is surprised by what we saw yesterday. However, we are surprised that we did not have the tangible evidence. We have all been raising these issues for years.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (23 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which an academy (details supplied) can get recognised in order not to charge VAT on its courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49662/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (23 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 162. To ask the Minister for Health if dental services such as teeth cleaning are available under the medical card scheme. [49795/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 175. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be moved to Beaumont Hospital to have the required surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49825/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if teeth cleaning performed by a dental hygienist as distinct from a dentist is covered under the dental benefit scheme. [49799/17]

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: It is not a Standing Order but grandstanding.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (28 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the meeting between a company (details supplied) and the HSE in recent days regarding the drug Vimizim for the treatment of Morquio disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49906/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which rates paid by the HSE to private addiction clinics are decided upon; the details of the decision process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49907/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (28 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the meeting between the HSE and a company (details supplied) in relation to Respreeza; the ongoing difficulties which has seen deterioration in the health of persons with alpha-1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49908/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (28 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if measures have now been put in place to allow persons with alpha-1 to receive Respreeza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49909/17]