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Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Data (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years for speech and language assessment, by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51589/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Data (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years on waiting lists for speech and language therapy treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51590/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Data (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years for speech and language therapy treatment, by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51591/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent public health nurses in each HSE area in tabular form. [51585/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years on waiting lists for an appointment with their local child and adolescent mental health team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51586/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years for an appointment with their child and adolescent mental health team by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51587/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for an initial assessment of need to determine severity of a condition or disability from the early intervention teams, by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51592/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years for an initial assessment of need from the early intervention teams, by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51593/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the persons who will be on the new drugs committee; the qualifications that make them experts in assessing medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51600/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (5 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each LHO, in tabular form. [51825/17]

Neurological Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: The Irish Heart Foundation is a member of the Neurological Alliance and the foundation has been advocating on the need to develop stroke services across the country. Access to stroke unit care is estimated to reduce mortality and severe disability from strokes by approximately 25%. The Irish Heart Foundation, in conjunction with the HSE national stroke audit 2015, found that just 29% of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Reform (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on to teachers’ claims that there is inadequate time to deliver the junior cycle syllabus to pupils. [51896/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I apologise for missing some of the presentations by members but I was speaking in the Dáil on a Private Members' motion. I will also put some matters on the record as well. As a member of this committee representing a party with a vote of conscience on the matter, I speak in a personal capacity. We have full confidence in the workings of the committee and the adjudication by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: However, is it a definite limit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I appreciate the flexibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Members may have varying views, but assuming that we go for repeal of the eight amendment, those views will come into play in considering the complexities associated with a real and substantial risk to the health of the mother and, as provided for in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, to the life of the mother, including both her physical and mental health. There is also the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Chair and the committee. I believe we are taking this under Standing Order 141(3) and that it will hopefully be reported to both Houses. The Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017, if enacted, will require "practitioners to declare any income or gift received from medical suppliers or pharmaceutical companies to the Medical Council in statutory declaration annually." ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: No. It primarily addresses health care professionals who prescribe. It is acknowledged by ourselves, in the briefing paper compiled by the Oireachtas Library and Research Service and in the comments made by the Minister in the Dáil, that it might be necessary to broaden the scope of this Bill to include doctors, other prescribers, other health care professionals and employees at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I am open to amendments being made or an expansion of my Bill. We do not want to be overly prescriptive. We want to embrace all views and opinions to ensure that the legislation goes through. We want to ensure that the Bill is legally sound and, more importantly, is transparent when it comes to the prescription of medicines and use of medical devices and equipment in this country.