Results 4,761-4,780 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: This is a debate.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Are we having a debate on it now?
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: They are unrelated and trying to relate them makes it difficult.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: The Taoiseach is in Davos rubbing shoulders with millionaires and billionaires.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Today he is partaking in a debate entitled "The Rise of Populist Parties in Europe". He might have to come back here and look at the demise of one or two populist parties in Ireland.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: The CSO published a survey on income and living conditions in Ireland and, by any stretch of the imagination it makes very disturbing reading, particular as regards child poverty. Over the last weeks we have seen many announcements by Ministers and Ministers of State on commitments to be entered into over the next 18 months. In other words, these are election promises, including promise on...
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I was just stating a fact; millionaires and billionaires.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Deputy Durkan has spoken. It is time to go.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: She already misled the people.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: They are sleeping in cars under this Government.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: That is an endorsement.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Social mobility is a good thing.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Is the Tánaiste calling on the board engage directly with nurses?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Will the Tánaiste ask the board to engage directly with nurses?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Therefore, Paul Gallagher should engage with them.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: Over the past few months we have seen the nursing organisations express great concern at the increase in the retention fee by the nursing board, from €100 to €150. This has been an ongoing situation for some time and has been highlighted by political parties, by advocacy groups, patient groups and the nursing organisations. A 50% increase in any fee is an extraordinary demand,...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: The problem is that the Minister for Health merely monitors what is happening. This seems to be his forte. He monitors waiting lists and trolley counts, but we need activity in this situation. We do not need the Minister to monitor further. We need him to ensure that the board engages with the nursing organisations to ensure we have an affordable retention fee so that nurses can register...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses to the committee. There is obviously an issue with the impact on the staffing of our health services in terms of consultants but equally in terms of the last point made by the IMO on the broader issue of the impact of cuts on our health service. We hear week in and week out of the pressures on front-line service providers in our emergency departments and of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (22 Jan 2015)
Billy Kelleher: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has held a meeting with a company (details supplied) over the past three months to discuss the pricing issue of its product Eculizumab; the outcome of these discussions; if not, the efforts that the HSE is making to secure a price structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3097/15]