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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: There is a health debate in the Dáil and those of us who are spokespersons may not return to the meeting. I apologise for that. We will have other people here who will be willing to listen to the answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I will try to stay for as long as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I thank Mr. O'Brien for his contribution. The "Prime Time" programme was very disturbing for people who watched it. It goes without saying that it clearly indicated appalling treatment of very vulnerable people and everybody would condemn such activities. We must ask what can we do to ensure it does not happen again. Clearly, it is a matter for the Garda Síochána to investigate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Where a first responder is not a patient-carrying vehicle, it is never accepted as the responder in terms of the target of 17 minutes and 59 seconds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Before we suspend for the division in the Dáil, I have a question on the seven minute, 59 seconds call-out time and whether the first responder is actually deemed a patient-carrying vehicle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The HIQA report has a lot to say about the broader issue of governance. What will the response to that be, in terms of the national ambulance service? Will it oversee the process by which the issues highlighted in the HIQA report are addressed? Will the HSE do it or will HIQA have some role in the continuous monitoring of the issue raised in the reports? The national ambulance service has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Ms McGuinness, Mr. Dunne and Dr. O'Donnell. We all welcome the fact this HIQA report has finally been published and we have an opportunity to debate it. In many ways, it makes for sobering reading. This issue has been debated in the Dáil and has been raised by numerous Deputies on many occasions in terms of the concerns they have in regard to response times and resources...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health Insurance Community Rating (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department was consulted by the Department of Health regarding to the regulations implementing lifetime community rating in the health insurance market. [48265/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 430. To ask the Minister for Health his views on concerns expressed by senior managers in the national ambulance service to Health Information and Quality Authority inspectors (details supplied). [47781/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Administration (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 442. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the refunds of prescription charges to persons on the long-term illness scheme who had to use their general medical services cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47934/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 445. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the model of financing and provision of mental health service as provided by Aspen in Lucan, County Dublin has been endorsed by the Minister for Justice and Equality, his plans to extend this model of provision to other types of care provided by the health service or to other parts of the country with regard to mental health service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for the Health Service Executive to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is heavily dependent on home care and has been having difficulties with the supply of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48462/14]

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: So the pre-election manifesto was wrong.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: What about four years ago?

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: We are talking about children. The Minister cannot hop it or drive down it.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I know.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I support the basic thrust of the amendment. We have had this debate on Second Stage. The streets of this city and elsewhere have comprised a very public forum over recent weeks and months. Many people may have varying views on how we fund our water and sanitary systems throughout the country but there is a very strong view that Irish Water, as an entity, concept, company and utility, is...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The reason is they will get the €100 next year; the Minister knows it as well as I do.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: If the Minister gives me the figures, we can debate it further. The purpose of Irish Water, as the Minister says, is to invest and conserve. Certainly, on the basis of any assessment of the proposals that are before us, that will not be the case. Irish Water has been castrated in terms of its ability to borrow on the markets. It will simply be incapable of doing so because it will not...