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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Developing a National Strategy for Coeliac Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses. Everybody knows somebody who is a coeliac or is aware of somebody who is a coeliac and we are probably all conscious of the broader issues around the disease itself but when we outline the impact it can have on individuals, the difficulties with lifestyle in terms of requiring a gluten-free diet, and the lack of resources and supports for sufferers of coeliac...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: My apologies for being absent for part of this meeting. We have not mastered the art of bilocation here yet. I have a number of questions and observations to make. I have received a number of e-mails from people with Huntington's disease and their family members. They are concerned about a number of issues. As Professor Crown has said, we must look at the worst-case scenario but also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I will read to the committee from an e-mail I received some days ago on foot of the debate about overcrowding in our accident and emergency departments. It states:My 76-year-old father was sent by our GP to an accident and emergency department in St. Vincent's Hospital on New Year's Eve. He spent over 50 hours there on a trolley and we had to supply him with pillows and blankets. He did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: It was pointed out that some hospitals, while they have no delayed discharges, still have queues. Of course they do, because there is a patient in every bed. It is merely that these are not delayed discharges. They are there for a reason but they are not considered delayed discharges. The hospitals are at capacity. They operate beyond capacity and it is no wonder these issues arise from...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (15 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the reason behind the decision to make the income level for a couple applying for the over 70s' medical card €900 and not €1000; and if he will review this matter in the future. [1886/15]

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister should not absolve himself, please.

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister should take responsibility for it himself, so.

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I move:That Dáil Éireann: noting:— the deplorable overcrowding being experienced in hospital emergency departments; — the record number of patients waiting on trolleys; — the further delays in scheduled hospital treatments that will result from such overcrowding; and — the failure of the Government and the Health Service Executive (HSE) to adequately...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: This is the present.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 536. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will supply size seven Lieber pull-ups to a person (details supplied) in County Cork as they are available at the HSE in Wilton, County Cork where they presently get their supplies. [49539/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 582. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sanction the use of Erivedge in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who cannot afford to pay the cost of this drug and cannot afford to wait until it becomes available through the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49701/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 585. To ask the Minister for Health when a bone marrow transplant consultant will be appointed to Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12. [49717/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 586. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recent investigation into abuse in care facilities, if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the number of complaints that have been received by the Health Service Executive since 2011 to date in the various regions around the country regarding home care support, regardless of the type home help, home support, home care package,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Co-operatives (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 608. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a North Doc home visit in 2014; the shortest and longest waiting times in 2014; the service target waiting time in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1097/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 679. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recently published national dementia strategy indicating that up to 29% of all patients in a typical general hospital may have dementia while the Irish national audit of dementia found that 94% of hospitals have no dementia pathway in place; the actions that have been put in place to ensure that dementia patients are provided appropriate care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 680. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the acknowledgement in the national dementia strategy that the average cost to the State per person with dementia here is €40,500 per annum as the bulk of the care for persons with dementia is provided free of charge by their family care-giver and that the informal cost of dementia to family caregivers is estimated to be €807...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if the national dementia strategy monitoring group has been established to monitor progress towards implementation of the strategy; the details of membership if already established; and details of the members' remit in terms of ensuring that all actions are successfully implemented. [1577/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 682. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the assignation of the overall responsibility for the implementation of the national dementia strategy within the Health Service Executive to the office of services for older people and the 4,000 persons currently affected by early onset dementia, if he will indicate the specific programme of care for these persons under the management of that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 684. To ask the Minister for Health regarding a Topical issue raised by this Deputy on 20 June 2012, the current location of the unused X-ray machine which was located in the Ballymun Health Centre and which was announced would be moved to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1581/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will be assessed as they need an up to date educational report to apply for reasonable accommodations for them to be able to sit their leaving certificate in June 2015. [49550/14]