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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: As I was saying before I rudely interrupted myself yesterday, there is context to this legislation. While referring to the Bill, I am keen to elaborate on the issue of social solidarity because the term was used a good deal in the context of bringing forward this emergency legislation between 2008 and 2011 and asking the people to make inordinate sacrifices to adjust the public finances. In...
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: This is something for which all the Members on the other side campaigned.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: It is now five years on but we are still waiting to find out the position on universal health insurance.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I respect the ruling-----
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: -----but I believe it is time we had an honest answer on this issue. We have had fudge, prevarication and a wandering, meandering view from the Minister for Health on this central issue.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Each and every one of the Members opposite promised only five years ago that if they entered Government, universal health care would be put in place and we would have no problems and a utopian health service.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: What we have is far from that.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: On a point of information, I raised promises in the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: A letter.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: On a point of information, I asked about the issue of universal health insurance, not universal health care.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I rise to ask the Tánaiste a question on universal health insurance, UHI, because I cannot get proper information from the Government. 1 o’clock It is a central plank of Government policy that was outlined by the two governing parties in the programme for Government after the 2011 election. We are no further on in terms of seeing any detail on universal health insurance. One...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Deputy Dooley will convey the Tánaiste's views to them.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: It is not in Tulla, in fairness.
- Other Questions: National Dementia Strategy Implementation (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: One way of showing a continuing commitment would be increase the number of intensive home care packages for 2016 in the context of the HSE service plan. We know from all the empirical evidence and the collation of data that the prevalence of the conditions will increase dramatically in the years ahead. By any stretch of the imagination, we do not have the supports or infrastructure in place...
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 12. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons his targets for waiting lists have not been met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36662/15]
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I ask the Minister for Health the reasons his targets for waiting lists have not been met and whether he will make a statement on the matter.
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: At the start of 2015, the Minister abandoned his predecessor's targets of a maximum waiting time of 18 months for inpatient day case appointments and one year for outpatient appointments. There is no point in pretending in this Chamber that circumstances have improved. The Minister has moved the goalposts and has set diminishing expectations. Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectationscomes...
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: A change from eight months to 18 months is an abandonment of targets.
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Before the election anyway.
- Other Questions: National Dementia Strategy Implementation (22 Oct 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 11. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of the national dementia strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36661/15]