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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Task Force on Overcrowding in Accident and Emergency Departments: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: With regard to the people who are discharged from hospital, is an analysis done of why they had to attend in the first place? Given we are talking about a 25% admission rate, 75% are not admitted, although I am not suggesting they did not have to be there. Of that 75%, is an analysis done of why they ended up in the emergency department when they did not need to be admitted? Was it lack of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Task Force on Overcrowding in Accident and Emergency Departments: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Mr. O'Brien referred to the issue I wish to raise, which is a duty of candour, openness and transparency in dealing with patients but equally in dealing with staff and, for example, encouragement for whistleblowers, as they are described, to come forward to voice concerns. When they come forward, there should be a process in place to address their concerns. There was to be an investigation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Task Force on Overcrowding in Accident and Emergency Departments: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: It is the broader issue, not just that incident. I am referring to the issue across the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Task Force on Overcrowding in Accident and Emergency Departments: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Is Mr. O'Brien satisfied the confidential recipient, Leigh Gath, and the mechanisms that are in place are widely known by the employees, staff and clinicians and that they have the confidence to use them?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if he received a request from the Health Service Executive to increase the number of critical care beds in 2016, the number of additional beds sought, and the full year cost of same [45692/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated for the implementation of the national asthma programme, the funding being provided in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45693/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 407. To ask the Minister for Health his view on the budget 2016 submission by the Irish Pharmacy Union to introduce a minor ailment scheme, an extended vaccination service and a new medicines service, if such initiatives will result in savings or new costs for the health service, in either case the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45694/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of senior house officer positions in each public and voluntary hospital, the number of such positions vacant and the number of these positions being filled by locums on 1 December 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter [46342/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 474. To ask the Minister for Health the number of registrar positions in each public and voluntary hospital, the number of such positions vacant and the number of these positions being filled by locums on 1 December 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46343/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 409. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost of restoring distance coding, and of restoring the coding and increasing the allowance to €25,000, under the rural practice allowance [45697/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred under the rural practice allowance in each year from 2009 to date [45698/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the number of personal assistant hours provided in 2015 and the full-year cost of same [45699/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 453. To ask the Minister for Health how many personal assistant hours will be funded from the health budget and the total funding that will be provided in 2016 [46090/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals which have acute medical assessment units and the number of days per week and the number of hours per day each of these is open, in tabular form. [45711/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the 25 health priorities for 2015 he announced on 27 January 2015, indicating which of these have been fully achieved as of 15 December 2015, in tabular form [45712/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 417. To ask the Minister for Health the funds allocated to the Travel2Care scheme in each year from 2008 to date, in tabular form. [45713/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of midwifery training places in place in the main teaching hospitals and the full-year cost of increasing this by 10%. [45735/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 423. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received correspondence from the National Vision Coalition calling for the inclusion of a commitment to publish and implement A National Vision Strategy; if he is aware of the report from the coalition entitled Economic Cost and Burden of Eye Diseases and Preventable Blindness in Ireland which indicated that 75% to 80% of blindness is preventable...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 445. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional speech and language therapists to be recruited by the Health Service Executive in 2016 and the full-year cost of same. [46041/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (17 Dec 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 446. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional physiotherapists to be recruited by the Health Service Executive in 2016 and the full-year cost of same. [46042/15]