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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: That it will be reviewed is something I can accept. On the broader issue, the claim is that lifetime community rating is actively encouraging people to take out private health insurance. One would be forgiven for thinking the Minister was applauding himself or the decision to introduce lifetime community rating. However, a number of factors are at stake here. Thankfully, we have a growing...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I will withdraw, with leave to reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 2:In page 8, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(c) where a relevant contract is paid by instalments during the course of a policy year then the specified rate shall also be paid proportionately throughout said policy year.”. One of the problems with the levy is the fact the full levy is payable the moment a person pays the first premium,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I will withdraw, with leave to reintroduce the amendment on Report Stage. This is in order to facilitate the smooth passage of the Bill.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: On a point referred to by the Minister in response to Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, we must accept there is a complete proliferation of health insurance policies. Perhaps it is because I am spokesperson on health, but we are daily getting calls, letters or e-mails from people who, when they avail of their private health insurance, are being informed they have to make a partial payment, which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (25 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional acute hospital beds that have become available in 2015; and the full-year cost of providing these. [41857/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Provision (25 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 166. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 5 November 2015, if no new primary care centres have been delivered by way of public private partnerships since 2011; the number of such public private partnership delivered centres opened, by county, in each of the years 2011 to 2015 to date, in tabular form; and the projected outturns for 2015. [41858/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (25 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 189. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of critical care beds to 579, as recommended in a 2009 report; and the full-year cost of doing so. [42026/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Telecommunications Infrastructure (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 177. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a telecommunications mast at a location (details supplied) in County Cork is in use; if not, the plans to have it removed. [41627/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 374. To ask the Minister for Health the number of colonoscopies that have been carried out in public hospitals over the past 12 months, by hospital and in tabular form; the number of patients on waiting lists for colonoscopies in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41302/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 394. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a variance in medicines available on the medical card, by county; if so the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41494/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 395. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 402 of 3 March 2015, if he will ensure that a full and final reply will be provided (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41495/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 412. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the ambulance response time in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41602/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 422. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the recent Economic and Social Research Institute report on universal health insurance; if upon deciding the commission of research into the estimated costs of universal health insurance, he invited tenders for the conduct of this research. [41661/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 435. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants recruited in 2015 to date; the full-year cost of their recruitment; and the net increase in consultant numbers resulting from this recruitment. [41803/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the number of newly recruited nurses in 2015 to date; the full-year cost of their recruitment; and the net increase in nursing numbers resulting from this recruitment. [41804/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 438. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will publish its service plan for 2016; and when he received the first draft of it. [41829/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 439. To ask the Minister for Health given his comments on radio that an additional 1,000 general practitioners are required for our health services, the full-year cost of providing them. [41830/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 440. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards, general practitioner cards and each type of card issued on a discretionary basis as of 1 November 2015. [41831/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (24 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 441. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications under the nursing home support scheme approved and awaiting funding as of 13 November 2015. [41832/15]