Results 5,181-5,200 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is not agreed.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I have expressed my views. I will wait until Report Stage to deal with the matter further.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister and his staff. I ask the Minister to consider the issues raised on the issue of optometrists. I look forward to Report Stage.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We have had great debates during the years about charging people in nursing homes and certainly did not cover ourselves in glory in that episode in terms of whether people had been illegally charged for many services for a very long time. We must accept that many people in HSE care or care services provided and supported under the nursing homes residential scheme of 2009 are not in receipt...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I do not want to labour the point, but if a person is staying in a hotel and paying for a room, there is a good chance he or she will expect it to be clean, the lights and heating to be turned on and have a porter in the hotel if they come in after hours. The point is that this is not happening in many cases. For example, the shortage of community geriatricians is a sad indictment of how we...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I accept that the contribution is towards the cost of accommodation and other basic services, but I am making the point that if a person is making such a contribution, he or she feels there should be some obligation on the HSE to provide the other services required for an individual in such accommodation. We should bear in mind that it is set by the Minister of the day. I know that the...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: What is the general make-up of the governing body? Is there a statutory obligation?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Is there a gender quota?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: In view of efforts being made to try to ensure a broad gender representation, will the Government examine that issue in general? Would it restrict appointments to the board too much?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: For the next Dáil election, some of us will be elected or not elected but there is a 30% quota.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Yes.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I have nothing to declare in that regard. If we are to move towards ensuring we have a proper gender balance, we should start to make efforts across all sections. It is just a point.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Are we taking section 42 with section 41?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I will not oppose section 41.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We raised this matter in the Dáil with the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. There are a number of concerns with section 42, which outlines and defines services, including accommodation provided on behalf of the HSE. It outlines the supports of services other than outpatient, acute inpatient or long-term residential care services under the nursing home support scheme. We...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The stated intention of the legislation is to allow sales assistants to hand over people's glasses and to take payments from them. It is for this reason that I do not believe the amendment to be onerous in any way in ensuring that this remains the practice. I accept that the key person to be protected is the customer, particularly in terms of ensuring that he or she receives the correct...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I am going to withdraw the amendments in my name, but I reserve the right to resubmit them on Report Stage in order to give the Minister the opportunity to clarify the position with regard the legal advice he is going to seek.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 1: In page 22, line 12, after “optician” to insert the following:“or a suitably qualified delegated staff member working under the supervision of a registered optometrist or dispensing optician, such staff member having been delegated, by a registrant of the designated profession of optometrist or dispensing optician, to carry out non-clinical...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: He is sorry he dropped him.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Which Deputy?