Results 1,841-1,860 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 375: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he has raised the issue of the VHI's solvency requirements with his colleagues in the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12520/11]
- Written Answers — Tobacco Advertising: Tobacco Advertising (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans to introduce a ban on logos and distinctive branding on packets of cigarettes in order to reduce cigarette appeal to consumers. [12521/11]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 377: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he has had meetings or talks with clinicians and with the drugs industry with a view to achieving significant reductions in expenditure in this area in 2011. [12522/11]
- Written Answers — Hospital Status: Hospital Status (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 378: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will amend the status of Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal from a local hospital to a regional one, in order to improve the amount of funding available to the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12523/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 379: To ask the Minister for Health and Children following recent warnings from the IMF that health costs are dragging the economy down and that savings of â¬1 billion may be required this year alone, if he will outline the way he intends to make the necessary savings. [12524/11]
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 380: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his views on whether the National Treatment Purchase Fund offers value for money and is effective in reducing waiting time for patients on public hospital waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12525/11]
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: The great surrender to Frankfurt.
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: We heard that one before.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: He can do some fundraising in the meantime.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: When does the Taoiseach envisage that legislation will be published to provide for the abolition of prescription charges? The Minister, Deputy Reilly, has announced on numerous occasions that he intends to abolish prescription charges. We have now found he has delayed that. Will it happen in the next 40 days or so? The Government's first 100 days are almost up.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: This is a key issue.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: We have now found-----
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: I genuinely believe-----
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister for Health should outline why legislation has not yet been published. There are just 40 days left in the Government's 100-day window for the abolition of these charges.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Did the Taoiseach not know that before 25 February last?
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: That is what we were told before 25 February.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Will it be retrospective?
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: These things have been promised, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (25 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Is it intended to promise the legislation?
- Order of Business (26 May 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Does the Labour Party have a view?