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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (16 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 696. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be afforded an exemption for Irish when the person commences secondary school in September 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23019/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 822. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date for the roll-out of high speed broadband for Elm Grove, Sallybrook, Glanmire in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23284/15]
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Water charges. What about the cut in child benefit?
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: What about education fees?
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I am trying to remind her of her promises.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Siteserv.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I refer to the education (admission to school) Bill. There seems to be some divergence of views between the Labour Party and Fine Gael with regard to the cap on admissions of sons and daughters of past pupils. Some are proposing a cap of 10% and other parties are proposing a cap of 25%. When will this Bill come before the House? A little more than four years ago, the House debated the...
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: So we must guess which it is.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Will a figure be prescribed in the Bill?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste had better watch him.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I would not praise him too much.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste should not talk about promises. She is on weak ground.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste’s Government promised to get rid of it but it is still there.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Will the Tánaiste arrange a visit for me to Balbriggan where I can see the health centre?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Over four years into this Government's term of office, we still have no proper roll-out of universal access to general practitioners, GPs. This was a stated Government policy. We learned as late as yesterday that a reported 50% of GPs have signed up for the under sixes contract. The figure is as low as 8% in County Tipperary. It stands at 32% in parts of Cork city and county. The figures...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: The same type of circumstance was repeated in Limerick in recent weeks. Given that we are talking about investing in primary care and keeping chronic illness and disease in the primary care setting, will the Tánaiste not accept that the Government's policy of rolling out universal access to GPs is in rag order?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: It is certainly shambolic from the point of view that four years have passed since the Government started to roll out this programme, but less than half of the GPs in the country are getting involved in it and just half of the people of this country will have access to GP services in the next few weeks and months. There is huge uncertainty out there. Could we have some clarity? Will the...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: If the 50% rate mentioned by the Tánaiste is in line with the Government's aspiration, it is a very poor effort. The provision of universal access to GPs for everybody is a stated policy in the programme for Government that was formulated in March 2011, which said that everybody in the country would have access to GP care free of charge. We were told there would be universality across...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)
Billy Kelleher: He has been entrusted with making some effort to address the problems being faced in the health service on a daily basis. It is getting progressively worse. Over 400,000 people are waiting to see a consultant. The Taoiseach promised in 2011 to reduce the number of trolleys but there is a crisis every day in the emergency departments. The Government accepts that to have 350 or 400 people...