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Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: No, the Minister is an actor as well.

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: We have, within the fiscal space.

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Within the fiscal space.

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 65. To ask the Minister for Health why the overcrowding in hospital emergency departments has not seen a significant improvement despite the initiatives taken during 2015; if the €100 million shortfall in the funding for hospitals will have a detrimental impact on access to emergency department and scheduled waiting list targets in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Why has the overcrowding in hospital emergency departments not seen any significant improvement despite the plethora of announcements made last year, the establishment of the emergency department task force, the move to address the issue of the shortage of nursing homes and the increase and enhancement in the fair deal scheme to move people from an acute hospital setting into community...

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Many of this Government's policies on health are based on crossed fingers and a wing and a prayer because as we start into February 2016 we know full well that the acute hospital system is already underfunded. It will not have the capacity to deal with what presents, either through the emergency department or in the area of elective surgery, and that is already happening. There were...

Other Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister will always pick the lowest number.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Fine Gael has the five point plan.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: A cursory glance at the programme for Government and an analysis of it with the benefit of five years of hindsight shows it is a catalogue of failure. The two central tenets of health care delivery in Ireland were to be universal health insurance and free GP care for everybody. There has been an abandonment of the universal health insurance model as was outlined. It appears to have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: It is a fact.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: Everybody accepts that primary care is the way to address the challenges being faced in the delivery of health care. The Minister himself has consistently stated that if it is possible to increase the capacity of the primary care system or to enhance the ability to deal with chronic disease and chronic illness, it will have an impact on overcrowding in the emergency departments. The point I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 57. To ask the Minister for Health why the undertakings on universal health insurance and the introduction of free general practitioner care for the whole population, the two key health commitments in the 2011 programme for Government, were not honoured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4093/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: If the Taoiseach comes to the Dáil, I will be happy to give way to him at any stage during my question. I want to ask the Minister for Health why the undertakings on universal health insurance and the introduction of the free GP scheme for the whole population, which were the two central planks of the Government's policy in 2011, have not been fulfilled? The Minister has abandoned...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government Initiatives (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 70. To ask the Minister for Health why two fundamental health commitments in the 2011 programme for Government, namely the undertakings on universal health insurance and the introduction of free general practitioner care for the entire population, were not met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3926/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the negotiation of a new contract for general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3925/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 83. To ask the Minister for Health the number of commissioned units in public and voluntary hospitals that have yet to open, including the patient accommodation capacity in each, in tabular form; when they will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3928/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 87. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and the number of hours being provided for home help, and the funding and the number of packages being provided for home care in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3927/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he is taking to assist the residents in Glounthaune in County Cork who have had remedial works carried out to secure flood insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4628/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Fines Data (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 267. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people resident in Dublin 12, 8,10 and 6W who were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment; the number who were processed at the prison where they were sent and released on the same day or the following day, by prison, by category of crime, by length of sentence given, in 2014 and in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Fines Data (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 268. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people resident in Cork City who were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment; the number who were processed at the prison where they were sent and released on the same day or on the following day, by prison, by category of crime, by length of sentence given, in 2014 and in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter....