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Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the factors behind the big increases in inpatient, day-case and outpatient waiting lists between January and July of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36529/14]

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: What are the factors behind the large increases in inpatient, day-case and outpatient waiting lists in the period January to July of this year? The National Treatment Purchase Fund published statistics quite recently and some of the increases these show make Zimbabwean inflation figures appear modest. In some areas there has been a 968% increase in the number of people awaiting procedures....

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: To the end of July more than 360,000 people were on outpatient waiting lists, an increase of almost 60,000 on the figure for last year. It is obvious, therefore, that something either is or is not happening, as the case may be. There comes a point where it is no longer possible to force that level of throughput through hospitals because they simply do not have the ability to deal with it as...

Other Questions: Universal Health Insurance (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: We stated quite clearly that we were opposed to the universal health insurance model and committed to a taxation based model. The principal reason we are committed to a taxation model is that it is progressive. Those who have most and earn most pay most and contribute most to the health services in this country. The universal health insurance model was the opposite of that, which is why...

Other Questions: Universal Health Insurance (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: That is based on income, not sickness.

Other Questions: Universal Health Insurance (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: What tax increase?

Other Questions: Universal Health Insurance (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Progressively.

Other Questions: Universal Health Insurance (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 74. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the introduction of universal health insurance; the timeframe for its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36531/14]

Other Questions: Universal Health Insurance (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: One of the central policies in the programme for Government is universal health insurance. On 2 April the Taoiseach and the then Minister for Health published a White Paper on universal health insurance. It was light on detail and unclear as to what was intended with regard to the funding model, but on taking office the Minister rode back to a certain extent from that commitment to...

Other Questions: Universal Health Insurance (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It is clear from that reply that UHI has been parked, but can the Minister talk about universal health care? The central policy is the introduction of UHI. It is evident from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and others bodies, including the Health Insurance Authority and those providing cover in the marketplace, that this will increase the cost to ordinary families. It will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Expenditure (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: While we all understand the public finances are under pressure, choices must be made every year as to where funding is to be targeted. The Government has proposed for some time that children aged under six years receive free general practitioner care. Last year, under the guise of probity, decisions were taken which resulted in medical cards being removed from the most vulnerable. I am a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Expenditure (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 69. To ask the Minister for Health the position on the Health Service Executive’s financial position; the latest projection for the deficit in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36796/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Expenditure (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and wish him the best of luck. This is first opportunity I have had to extend my best wishes to him. This time last year we were involved in a dishonest lead-up to the budget in the context of funding for the Department and the HSE to provide services in 2014. On 9 September the Minister said the HSE's budget would overrun by a huge amount....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Expenditure (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The HSE is not being enabled to deliver the services it outlined in its service plan for 2014. Waiting lists have increased; for example, only recently in University Hospital Limerick 47 patients were waiting on trolleys. The notion that the HSE has managed to maintain services is simply not credible by any stretch of the imagination when one considers the difficulties health services face...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 94. To ask the Minister for Health the way he proposes to address waiting times for the fair deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36532/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 96. To ask the Minister for Health when the programme for Government commitment on the extension of BreastCheck will be honoured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36530/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 115. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Health Service Executive's financial position; the latest projection for the deficit in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36528/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 369. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a knee replacement having been on the waiting list for many years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36701/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 385. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the State funding given to the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland on an annual basis if he has sought an explanation as to the reason the Labour Court's recommendation LCR 20827 on the enhanced redundancy package for four employees has not been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36770/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (30 Sep 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 421. To ask the Minister for Health the supports offered to Cork University Hospital in rectifying the continuing laboratory information management system problems; if financial assistance will be made available; the alternative arrangements that have been put in place to ensure accurate and timely blood test results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36948/14]