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Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: It is extraordinary that we are still debating this issue six months after completion of the building project. Mr. Joe Browne and Build4Life went about organising a fundraising project. They lightened the obligation and burden on the State by developing an infrastructure that was required for cystic fibrosis patients. It is unacceptable that the HSE cannot bring itself to recruit the...

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: It is not on the agenda of the Minister for Health.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: That has nothing to do universal health insurance.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Fine Gael Deputies cannot even remember the five-point plan.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: We are agreeing with him.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent by her Department on tackling drug-related crime for each of the years 2009 to 2014; the estimated spend in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26481/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Dealing (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the total value of the illicit drugs market; if she will provide a further breakdown of value by each drug type; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26482/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Meetings (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times since the current Government took office that she has met directly with the Minister for Health to discuss the national drugs strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26483/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times since the current Government took office that he has met the Minister of State with responsibility in the area of drugs to discuss the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26483/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when a new misuse of drugs Bill will be enacted; the measures that will be included in this legislation to combat the illicit drug trade and facilitate addiction treatment services; if he is satisfied with the time being taken to introduce this legislation; if he is in a position to fast-track this legislation to ensure it is enacted by the end of 2015, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the issue of the diversion of methadone provided under the methadone maintenance programme to the illicit drugs trade; if his Department has tracked or analysed the extent of the problem; if he will provide an estimate of the cost foregone to the Exchequer as a result of this diversion; the measures his Department has implemented to tackle...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed breakdown, in tabular form, of the amounts spent on the methadone maintenance programme, including medicine costs, general practitioner fees, pharmacy fees and the costs of any other ancillary and-or related services for each of the years from 2009 to 2014; the estimated spend for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners suitably qualified and currently engaged by the Health Service Executive to administer the methadone maintenance programme; if he will provide a breakdown of the location and number of each such general practitioner by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26474/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if specific details or data are kept and-or reviewed on the number of heroin addicts who enter, leave and subsequently rejoin the methadone maintenance programme; if not, the reason; if any analysis has been undertaken of the reason patients drop out of the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26477/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 192. To ask the Minister for Health his views that the methadone maintenance programme is successful in treating the estimated 20,000 heroin addicts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26475/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives that have been developed and undertaken by his Department to bring the estimated 10,000 heroin addicts outside of treatment into treatment programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26476/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 195. To ask the Minister for Health the medicinal based alternatives available to heroin addicts seeking treatment, but who do not wish to avail of methadone and-or for which it is contra-indicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26478/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the implementation of the recommendations of the buprenorphine implementation group; the reason they have not yet been implemented, notwithstanding that they were completed and published several years ago; if he is satisfied with this level of delay; the barriers that exist to their full implementation; the steps he has taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Budget (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend on the national drugs strategy for each of the years 2009 to 2014; the estimated spend for 2015; his views that the strategy is successful in treating heroin addiction; his views on the results and outcomes from the methadone maintenance programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26479/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (1 Jul 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the waiting times for autistic children in Dublin 15, with many reports of waiting times of over 18 months for basic and necessary care for speech and language, physiotherapy and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26506/15]