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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 558. To ask the Minister for Health if the January 2016 estimate of €395 million of direct State investment in the replacement and upgrade of 90 public nursing homes (details supplied) still stands, as of February 2017; if any revision of estimates has taken place in view of construction cost inflation; and if so, the current estimate for the replacement refurbishment of these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 559. To ask the Minister for Health the current date for completion of each project and the current indicative cost of completion for each project for each of the 90 public nursing homes (details supplied) to be replaced, refurbished or upgraded, in tabular form. [9769/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (28 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 584. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred and expenditure outlay in each year since 2012 for the new children's hospital at St James's Hospital [9967/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (28 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 585. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for the provision of a dedicated centre for persons with intestinal failure catering for adults and patients moving from the paediatric unit at Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9971/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 603. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment will be carried out on a person (details supplied). [10177/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (28 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 643. To ask the Minister for Health when the October 2016 HSE Performance Report will be published; and the reason for the delay in its publication [10354/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Antimicrobial Resistance (23 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the date for the publication of the national action plan on antimicrobial resistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9169/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Antimicrobial Resistance (23 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if there are timelines and targets in respect of the management of antimicrobial resistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9170/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Antimicrobial Resistance (23 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that will be taken whereby an institution fails to effectively deal with the control of antimicrobial resistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9171/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Antimicrobial Resistance (23 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 298. To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the national action plan on antimicrobial resistance, additional funding will be made available to tackle this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9172/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (23 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in January 2016, in tabular form; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; and the number that waited longer than 40 minutes, longer than 60 minutes, longer than 90 minutes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I will try to be brief. Some of the questions I had anticipated raising have already been answered. Mr. O'Brien said that this committee has very often been critical of the HSE in terms of budgets. I remind him that I have always been on his side when it comes to budgets because I have always tried to secure more funding for the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: It reminded me a little bit of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava whereby Lord Cardigan and his senior officers could be compared to the HSE being sent out to charge with inadequate resources and one inevitable outcome, namely, a budget deficit and a cutback in resources at the end of the year. In fairness, we must be honest with ourselves in terms of what can be achieved when it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Short, brief and concise contribution, unlike previous speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Who is resisting putting them in the same room?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Is there Department of Health resistance to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Clinically, certain patients have to be treated in a public hospital. However, many electives are being done in public hospitals when it could be argued they could be done in private hospitals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Public hospitals are not exactly awash with capacity either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: We should keep an eye on it. There are competing interests in it. There are budgetary matters, consultants and many things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I am not advancing that the policy was to incentivise. It was a budgetary matter. However, the knock-on effect is incentivisation for hospital management to look at private patients in a whole new light.