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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a product (details supplied) has been removed from the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32175/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Disability Tenders (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 125. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the current private sector tendering process in the residential disability sector; his plans to extend more open commissioning to the charitable sectors 38 and 39 providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32232/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 126. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need for more private sector providers and private sector capital to complete the actions of the HSE’s report, Time to Move on from Congregated Settings – A Strategy for Community Inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32233/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 127. To ask the Minister for Health the current private sector proportion of the HSE budget compared with charitable sector; the way this figure compares with other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32234/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (26 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 134. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the European Court of Justice ruling that a fixed price system for the sale by pharmacies of prescription only medicinal products for human use is incompatible with the free movement of goods; and if there are any implications for pharmacies here [32257/16]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to share time with Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin. I welcome the opportunity to speak on an issue that has been discussed in the House on numerous occasions, sometimes in a very confrontational manner. In recent times, the tone, manner and language used in debates on this issue have changed in a positive way. The Bill proposes the simple deletion of Article 43.3.3° and many...

Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The Business Committee is unrepresentative.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the new vaccination schedule for the primary care immunisation programme which includes rotavirus and meningococcal B will commence on 1 December 2016; if agreement has been reached with all relevant parties for the implementation of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31950/16]

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: He is doing a head count.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: That was a reasonably good audition.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (20 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the negotiations between the Health Service Executive's National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and a pharmaceutical company (details supplied) regarding the drug Orkambi; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31265/16]

Services and Supports for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: This is a long and detailed motion but it is also non-contentious and I compliment Deputy Mary Butler for her work in researching and formulating it. Many organisations advocate on behalf of people with dementia, Alzheimer's disease and other neurological illnesses. We are tabling the motion to give everybody the chance to plan ahead for what is going to be an avalanche of challenges for...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Professor Keane. I was around for some of the debates on the implementation of the cancer care strategy and there was, by and large, buy-in for the project. This was for a number of reasons, primary among them being that our cancer care was not what it should have been or what we as an ambitious country had hoped it to be. Let us be clear, in that we were coming from a low base,...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: There are proposals to ensure such bodies are regulated in the same way as the public sector.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: No.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (19 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 11 October 2016, if he will provide a list of companies that have signed up to this agreement as it appears that not all companies are complying to this agreement and families of disabled persons are now concerned over the unknown cost of disposing of incontinence wear,...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 24. To ask the Minister for Health the extra provision that is being put in place for home-care packages and home helps in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30643/16]

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Could the Minister of State make a statement about the extra provision for home-care packages and home-help hours in 2017? In view of the supplementary budget earlier in the year and the additional €491 million allocated for health in budget 2017, we are back to where we were in terms of peak spending on health in 2007. It is important that a clear outline is given to ensure that the...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. We talk about the winter initiative. The winter initiative should be over, above and beyond home-care packages and home-help hours. That should be systemic in terms of delivery of care. We already know that large numbers of people are presenting in the accident and emergency departments of our acute hospitals day in and day out, particularly...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Billy Kelleher: I urge that a strong emphasis be put on that in the context of requesting the HSE service plan. It is stated in the budget in terms of the commitments that are to be made with regard to older people, home-care packages, home-help hours and all the ancillary supports that are required. It is important that when assessing the reply from the HSE in terms of the plan and the analysis carried...