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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (20 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 93. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, for October 2013 and October 2014 for each local health area, the number of medical cards in circulation; the number of which are issued on the basis of the exercise of discretion; and the number of which are allocated to over 70s. [44564/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (19 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if expenditure for the school completion programme has been ring-fenced for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43981/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (19 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way the school completion programme will develop in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43980/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Reports (19 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 100. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla publishes on a monthly basis all the information relating to children's services that used to be published in Health Service Executive monthly performance reports prior to the establishment of the agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44449/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 115. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form based on local health office/area and indicating those aged 16 and under and those above 16, the numbers waiting for orthodontic treatment at the end of March 2014, the end of June 2014 and the end of September 2014. [44395/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Bed Data (19 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 116. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for each public hospital the number of critical care beds in each at the end of 2011, 2012, 2013 and the latest figure for 2014 [44411/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Provision (19 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 127. To ask the Minister for Health when the independent review of orthodontic services commissioned by the Health Service Executive in 2012 was published. [44451/14]

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: When I walk some parts of the country, I wonder why children I see around the streets are not in school. They are almost abandoned during the day. Are we doing enough collectively as a society to assist parents who are in crisis, families who are under huge pressure and children who are almost feral in some cases? When we look at society, we see it becoming harsher. A them-and-us attitude...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: We will not be opposing this Bill. I put my thoughts together last week in advance of speaking on the Social Welfare Bill. That was before what happened here on Thursday with the sit-in or lock-in and what transpired over the weekend in terms of the protests as well. Some of what I wanted to discuss was already in my mind. I have no wish to sound alarmist, but I believe that at this...

Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: He said that as a former teacher.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 131. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have been contacted by her Department in 2014 regarding scheme overpayments which were assessed against them prior to 2008; the number of these persons who received correspondence in relation to the way the overpayment arose, in view of natural justice, and were informed of their right of appeal; the number of old age...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 210. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the occupation at a petrol station (details supplied) in Ballyvolane, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43835/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 299. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the acquisition of a new premises for a Garda station (details supplied) in County Cork. [44153/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 326. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the Crannog Nua, Portrane, County Dublin unit in respect of its conversion from a high dependence unit to a special care unit; if it will be opened by June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44127/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the application for home help in respect of a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15 in need of domestic physiotherapy due to supernumerary chromosome 8. [43878/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 377. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the enhanced home care services tendering process that divides the country up into nine regional lots, losing the local knowledge base and community aspect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43914/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 378. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to replace the additional services provided by not-for-profit groups which have lost their contracts under the new enhanced home care services tendering process such as transportation and resource centres that will no longer be able to operate resulting in the loss of a social outlet for the disabled and vulnerable in the community; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 387. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce itemised pharmacy receipts, detailing a breakdown of charges such as medicine cost, dispensing fee and so on per item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44012/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 441. To ask the Minister for Health his views on concerns being expressed by staff at the National Centre for Medical Genetics regarding the centre’s future, specifically a proposal that it no longer be a national centre but a department of genetics at Our Lady’s Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12 and that such a move could lead to fragmented genetic testing nationally and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Rates (18 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 488. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been to drawn to the €159 extra cost to tax a seven seater car for the year when paid in two six month payments (details supplied); his views on this matter. [43840/14]