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Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Labour Party and the Tánaiste were directly responsible.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Let me say-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Let me say-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste is directly responsible for the thousands of people who are in emergency accommodation on a continual basis for her reluctance to address the rent supplement and the need for an increase.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Getting back to my original question.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Getting back to my original question about the privatisation of the public health service, the Minister for Health was speaking to Chartered Accountants Ireland. The fact one is speaking to chartered accountants does not mean one should tell them something they would be interested in, because I would be very concerned if we were handing the running of the health services over to the KPMGs of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The bottom line is that it is a public health service-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: -----and I would like to know whether the Tánaiste is committed to retaining a public health service.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: In other words, it is retained in the ownership of the public and it is run for the public.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste can say it was just a speech that was being put forward at Chartered Accountants Ireland, but the bottom line is that the Minister, Deputy Varadkar-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister did outline his vision of the health services in the years ahead and he has also outlined the fact, along with Fine Gael and the Labour Party, that the two parties will put themselves as an outgoing Government before the electorate.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: We would like to know whether the Tánaiste supports the concept of privatisation of our public health services. I know the Tánaiste has praised the Minister for Health and obviously he is a constituency colleague-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: -----but leaving that aside, she needs to accept that there is huge concern out there because our public health system is under-funded, under-resourced-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: It is continually starved of the resources it needs to provide basic services. That has been highlighted time and again.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Is the Tánaiste now saying that she is supportive of the concept of handing the management of hospitals over to private companies and undermining the public health services?

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: It has nothing to do with hospitals.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: About the Tánaiste's Department.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: There have been many pre-election promises made in recent days. The Minister for Health has been at it again in outlining his vision of the health services in the years ahead. I suppose this is to camouflage the fact that the pre-election promises of 2011 have not been fully honoured. The vast majority of them have been shredded and totally ignored. The Minister for Health made a...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste's party ran away from all its obligations. It promised to protect those who most needed support from the State-----

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the contributions of all Deputies. While the views expressed on the Government side of the House were much more couched and nuanced in their criticism, the overriding fact cannot be denied. Our health service is in crisis. Many Deputies on the Minister's side of the House alluded to this fact. Some Deputies will come in and read scripts from the various press offices of Fine...