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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implcations for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the presentation. Like all the debate around Brexit, uncertainty is the major backdrop in all of this. Very often, we are potentially planning in the dark but we must anticipate certain issues that may arise and have contingency plans in place. If there is potentially to be a hard Border of some form or another, the issues of concern are that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implcations for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Often, the easiest way to keep people from coming into a country in a professional capacity is simply to change the recognition criteria. Straight away, it results in paperwork and delays and so on. It was the oldest trick in the book for many years and one applied by protectionist countries. Mr. O'Connor is suggesting that most of the professional bodies in the UK as well as officialdom...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implcations for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Does the Department of Health take the view that those responsible in the UK want to change it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Professor Pras and Ms O'Connor and thank them for their presentations. Given that it is International Women's Day, I wish to ask a few relevant questions. Reference was made to the right to access terminations, particularly in the first trimester, in the context of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormalities. This Parliament has established a citzens' assembly to examine the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: The issue of birth control, for example, is something that is possibly not supported in a way that would address some of the problems with large families across the globe. There is huge poverty and poor vaccination programmes for children on top of that resulting in much disability and so on, and the women of these countries are often charged with trying to mind all of that. An observation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: This does not include the trimester right before birth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: This is very interesting. We are talking about global concepts with regard to the termination of pregnancies. Even if people agree the concept that a woman is entitled to her reproductive health, there is always a concept in legislation - which one will find in most national parliaments I know of - whereby a term limit is put on a stage at which a termination can take place, after which a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: That is very different to the perception which was given.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I sought clarity on whether that is the UN position or that of the rapporteur.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 28. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to reduce waiting times for orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12077/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 60. To ask the Minister for Health if the South/South West Hospital Group has an action plan to reduce the waiting times for outpatients, with almost 11,000 appointments outstanding for more than 18 months at the end of January 2017. [12080/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Data (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 83. To ask the Minister for Health the number of centres with regard to the primary care centre projects announced on 17 July 2012 that are now open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12081/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (8 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 205. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE compiles figures on misdiagnosed cases in regard to mental health; if so, the procedures in place to carry out reviews of these misdiagnosed cases; if there is a record history kept for each psychiatrist or psychologist that makes a wrong diagnosis in order that this information is available to a specialist supervisory panel as part of these...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: This issue was always going to be raised again in the context of the Bill previously debated in the Dáil which subsequently became the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. It was raised quite a lot during the debate on that legislation. The main focus of debate at the time was on addressing the issue of protecting the life of the mother in the context of what had happened and...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

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Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Gabh mo leithscéal. As Deputy Bríd Smith said, one can get various political opinions, but one can also get various legal opinions. I am simply making an observation, as I see it. We will be discussing the findings of the Citizens' Assembly, either at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health or in formal plenary session of the Dáil, very soon. The assembly is to report in...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. There is a lot of emotive debate around this topic. A woman from Cork is coming to the Dáil today, and it is important that we acknowledge the work and effort she has put into campaigning on this particular issue. However, just because people are campaigning does not mean that what is being sought can be provided by political decisions. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Does it have THC in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Billy Kelleher: If a licence were to be granted by the Minister on compassionate grounds, would a ratio of tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, and cannabidiol, CBD, be included in the licensing arrangement or is that a matter for the clinician? Who decides the ratio of THC to CBD?