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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (13 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: 377. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will fund a replacement thrombectomy machine in Beaumont Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46821/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (13 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE funding for dental treatment for all special needs children and adults in south County Dublin has been withdrawn; the way in which special needs children and adults in south County Dublin are expected to receive necessary treatment; if this is a national policy; if the funding will be returned for the 2019 budgetary year; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: 232. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the delays in regard to public ultrasounds (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47373/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the witnesses and thank the Minister of State for standing in for the Minister, Deputy Harris. I have some questions for Mr. Connaghan and others relating to the CervicalCheck issue which could be answered by Mr. McCallion or Mr. Connaghan. This will be a quick-fire round because we only have a certain amount of time for questions. Is Mr. Connaghan considering any structural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I was waiting to hear that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I presume Mr. Connaghan will put forward his thoughts to the board and is making considerations in that area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: In Limerick and Clonmel. The Minister announced it last week in Clonmel and he asked me to raise it in the committee with Mr. Connaghan and with the Secretary General in particular to make sure the money was available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I am joking here, but I suggest that Mr. Connaghan has a chat with Mr. Jim Breslin before he does that to make sure the money is available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: We always have a chat with Mr. Breslin. The Chairman would like this also because it affects us in the mid-west.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: The HSE will have to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: For clarity, is it the case that 31% of the 221 affected women have consented to the RCOG audit? That is a serious problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: For clarity, will the HSE have all the questions and statistics by Christmas regarding the audit of the 221 women who were affected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: One of my questions remains to be answered; I am not asking another question. It was the question regarding the actions taken outside of the Scally report recommendations.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (15 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: It is very disappointing that the Minister for Health is not here to deal with this and other issues. This is a particularly important issue. I want to know why a drug, pembrolizumab, is not being made available to cancer patients who require it. The issue has received a great deal of publicity in the context of the case of Vicky Phelan, to whom I spoke before I came into the Chamber for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (15 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State. Obviously, I would prefer if the Minister were here. I appreciate the presence of the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, and I acknowledge that she is doing her best. Tomorrow, I have to go to the funeral of a young man and father of three children in Clonmel. He was trying to get on this drug, but unfortunately he never made it. May he rest in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (15 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: His name is Martin.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I ask the Tánaiste the key outcomes from the recent British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference and the prospects for the restoration of a power-sharing Executive in Northern Ireland as a consequence.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Tánaiste. The intergovernmental conference will probably have to be upgraded post Brexit as we will not have the same formal or informal meetings with our UK colleagues. Was there any discussion about this? Obviously that is something we will have to look into. What practical steps are going to be taken in relation to the 2014 Stormont House Agreement on legacy issues?...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Tánaiste for those replies. It has been said that there is going to be ambition as to how bilateral co-operation is maintained and strengthened post Brexit. The Tánaiste might outline how that will work. Are we considering a model like the Nordic Council of Ministers? How would the joint funding of projects go ahead etc.? How would EU rules be involved in that, or...