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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentation. It is important a forum is offered to them to express their concerns about what they see as the wrong choice for the national children's hospital. There is no doubt we all agree on the need for a national children's hospital. In doing that, however, it must be put in the most appropriate location. We are here because the group...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I have no difficulty with members asking questions and a collective response to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I thank and welcome the witnesses. I cannot get out of my mind the image of the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, on the St. James's Hospital site with a shovel helping to commence works. I hope there is more than the Minister down there with shovels; I hope there are a few JCBs or the deadline will certainly run longer than 2020. There are a few issues and slight difficulties. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: My final question is for Mr. Pollock. In the previous session Dr. Jimmy Sheehan referred to the construction. However, I did not need him to reference it, because it is something that continues to bother me a good deal. We are very good at building but we are very slow. Let us consider this street. We have been digging up the street for the Luas. The stretch is not 500 m but we are a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: Is that a cunning plan of the Chairman for us to come back after the vote?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: Okay. Are the witnesses are available to hang on, then? Will we suspend for a number of minutes and then come back, or does-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I see.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: That is perfect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: A vote has been called on the Bill to repeal the eighth amendment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I will, but will the committee keep going?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I apologise to the delegates.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I apologise for being absent as I had to attend a number of votes. I asked a few questions and presume they were answered. Were they?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: To some extent, yes. That is a major issue, but Mr. Pollock might elaborate on another matter. Has there been any mention of families and accommodation facilities? It is an issue that has come up. I remember many years ago having to contact people in Dublin who were building houses to consider allowing a family to use a house for a period of time. We are down to this. Has any thought...
- Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Finance Bill that will enact the legislative changes announced in the budget itself. At the outset, let us be clear: this was not a very inspiring budget by any stretch of the imagination. It was cautious and safe in the sense that there were no imaginative proposals in it in the context of the challenges we face as a country and society, where we...
- Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: Is that a promise?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses and thank Ms King and Mr. Doran for their presentations and the more detail submissions made to the committee. I have a couple of questions which seek to tease out how we move from where we are in terms of developing a strategy to implementation of what we all hope we can achieve at some stage, namely, a universal public health system with access based on clinical...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I apologise for missing the presentations but I was listening as they were being broadcast. There are a number of issues. We talk about primary care and primary care teams. How much will GPs embrace working together? Are they reluctant? Let us be very clear, there was resistance by a lot of GPs to the initial move to roll out primary care teams across the country. It was one of the...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: I do not know if the question was answered in detail so perhaps it could be revisited.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: Yes, but answers would be helpful. The issue of consultants has been addressed before. What comparable pay rate should we be looking at if the issue of remunerative packages is a problem in recruiting consultants? We compete in the English-speaking world as opposed to the European model in terms of retaining or attracting back consultants. What sort of pay rates do the witnesses recommend...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)
Billy Kelleher: Is it about a reluctance to have primary care centres as opposed to a reluctance to have primary care teams?