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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 234. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years of age currently 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. [17206/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18years of age for an appointment with their child and adolescent mental health team by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17207/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years currently on waiting lists for a speech and language assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17208/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years of age for speech and language assessment by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17209/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 238. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged zero to 18 years of age currently on waiting lists for speech and language therapy treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17210/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 239. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years of age for speech and language therapy treatment by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17211/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (6 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on waiting lists for an initial assessment of need to determine severity of a condition or disability from the early intervention teams within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17212/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (6 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged zero to 18 years of age for an initial assessment of need from the early intervention teams within the HSE, by HSE area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17213/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (6 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the total allocated budget per annum for hiring external consultancy firms for his Department's campaign for the relocation of the European Medicines Agency; the total costs to date; the name of the firms involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17441/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. I have a few questions, answers to some of which may have already been provided. For a patient with co-morbidities or multiple morbidities, on multiple prescriptions, where is the evidence to support the case that medicinal cannabis is a safe product or medicine, if it is being prescribed as medicinal cannabis, and that it is safe to use with other medicines for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: My question has just been answered.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 273. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CT and bone scans that were cancelled or missed by patients since 1 January 2017 in the Mater hospital; if these slots are automatically offered to other patients or whether the slots are lost; if there is a protocol in place for this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16886/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (5 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 275. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the primary health care centre in an area (details supplied); the regional HSE jurisdiction it will come under; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16899/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Recruitment (5 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the duration that recruitment panels operate for before they expire; if recruitment panels are lasting for long periods; if newer panels are overridden or absorbed by older panels with the effect that the staff with more up-to-date skills, knowledge and experience may be placed lower on staffing panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16962/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: We need the Minister to come up quickly with a forum that gives people confidence that he and the Government are committed to public transport. There is no doubt that Bus Éireann is trying to provide a service with one arm tied behind its back. Unfair advantages are being afforded to private operators that are in competition with Bus Éireann, which is trying to meet its public...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister has called on people to open their minds and try to find a solution, but he is ideologically predisposed towards not finding a solution or allowing the workers and others to come together in a meaningful forum through which they could address the underlying problems facing Bus Éireann. We all know what they are. The Minister cannot expect the company's problems to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Deputy Howlin. It is nice to see a Bill moving through the various Stages. From an Opposition perspective, we very often put forward Bills knowing that they may not travel very effectively through the legislative process and may at times not be legislatively sound. At the same time, however, they stimulate the debate and move the system to react and respond to the proposals being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: If he was a Minister he would have a large delegation with him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I have read the opening statement. The witnesses say that it might be possible, subject to the views of the Attorney General, to amend the 2005 Act.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Deputy Howlin's Bill seeks to amend section 4 of the 2005 Act if I remember correctly. This may be feasible if, as expected, it was decided to proceed with statutory regulation of counsellors. How does one regulate an entity that is so broadly based? Would it be regulation based on qualification standards? If it is activity based we could be here for ever.