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Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (22 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will reconsider the life saving treatment abroad application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois to prevent further damage to their organs owing to the delay in sanctioning the use of Eculizumab to treat their rare condition of paroxysnal nocturnal haemoglobinuria; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (22 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently waiting for the sanctioning of Eculizumab for their treatment; the length of time each patient has been waiting for a decision; when the Health Service Executive will be making a decision on these cases for this life saving treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3111/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (22 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 144. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, the maternity units that have and do not have a dedicated smoking cessation service for pregnant women; the number of women who have availed of that service in the years 2009 to 2014, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3116/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (22 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 147. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the cost benefit analysis being carried out by the Health Service Executive regarding the provision of Eculizumab on the community drugs scheme, the supports that are currently being offered to patients with this life threatening illness who are not in receipt of the treatment; if one of these patients goes into organ or multi-organ failure while...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (22 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently covered by a medical card; the number of those children who have a medical card on a discretionary basis; and the expenditure on same in 2014. [3129/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when the waiting lists and waiting times for inpatient and day case scheduled admissions will improve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2647/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: When does the Minister envisage an improvement in waiting lists and waiting times for inpatient and day case scheduled admissions? The most recent figures are for October 2014, but the Minister may have more recent ones. At the time 59,463 were on inpatient day case lists, of whom 54,250 were adults and 5,205 were children. Those on the lists, who require some service from the health...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The previous Minister for Health, now Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, said, "For people and patients, a key barometer of the success of our reform programme must be the performance of emergency departments and waiting lists." I cannot blame the Minister for Health for the previous Minister's failings, but I cannot absolve him because of the fact that he is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: We welcome any commitment that there will be an improvement, but we would like to see an improvement in how we manage waiting lists. More importantly, we would like to see resources being put in place to streamline the assessment of patients and the lists on which they should be placed. What confounds people is the idea that we are consistently cancelling elective surgery in order to deal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 19. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2392/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 30. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce waiting times for inpatient and day cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2391/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 46. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the roll out of BreastCheck for women in the 65-69 age group will not be complete until 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2394/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 70. To ask the Minister for Health his views that the €25 million funding to address delayed discharges is insufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2393/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 74. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made with regard to the implementation of medical card proposals announced late in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2390/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2015 for each local health area the number of medical cards in circulation; the number issued on the basis of the exercise of discretion; and the number of which allocated to over 70s. [2905/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 187. To ask the Minister for Health when he and his office was first informed by the Health Service Executive that its anti-flu vaccine is for a different strain of illness than the one which is currently circulating; if this development was discussed at the most recent meeting of the ED task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3030/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on re-opening the qualification allowance for post-primary teachers to new entrants, in view of the unfairness of two teachers being paid at different rates simply because one commenced employment later than the other and the fact that many new teachers are struggling financially as they cannot obtain full-time work. [3011/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulation of Health and Social Care Professions (20 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 462. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 445 of 16 December 2014, if he will clarify the regulation of counselling services; his views on the services provided outside CIPC provision; where Aspen fits in with the consolidation of CIPC services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2765/15]

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I thank all the Deputies who contributed to this debate. We were accused of playing politics by putting down this motion, but nothing could be further from the truth. Highlighting the concerns of society and the front-line staff who work in our emergency departments over patient safety and dignity is not playing politics. The Government was playing politics when it pretended it was going to...

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Government is not even implementing its own policies. We have had nothing but U-turns.