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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Issues (25 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of UK flight examiners eligible to conduct flight tests for IAA certificate approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27439/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Issues (25 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a logbook endorsement by an Irish flight school is sufficient evidence as proof of training for multi engine instrument rating or are flight training records required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27440/14]

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: If rhetoric could resolve the problem, we would be flying.

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: If rhetoric could solve-----

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: We said on Second Stage and throughout the debate on the Bill that we were very concerned about this legislation for a number of reasons. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has pointed to the fact that the Bill is technical in many ways in that it brings two Votes together into one under the Department of Health. However, there are also principles at stake. The difficulty we have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 564. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of medical cards as of 1 June 2014; the total number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the total number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [26829/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 587. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons who received treatment under the treatment abroad scheme in each of the years 2011 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014; and the cost incurred by the scheme in each of those years. [26952/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 628. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Treatment Purchase Fund will publish its March waiting list report. [27173/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 644. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the specific commitment in the Future Health framework to ensure that the age range extension of BreastCheck to women of between 65 and 69 years of age will commence in 2014 has not been honoured this year; if it will be honoured in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27258/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 645. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the cutbacks being imposed at St. Michael’s House in view of the negative impact that they are having on persons with disabilities and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27259/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 658. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who died of a heart attack in each of the past ten years by gender, age percentile, year and region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27359/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 659. To ask the Minister for Health the number of those who died of a heart attack here in each of the past ten years did not have prior symptoms or treatment for heart disease by gender, age percentile, year and region. [27360/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 660. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who died of a heart attack here in each of the past ten years was as a result of a second or subsequent heart attack by gender age percentile year and region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27361/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (24 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 661. To ask the Minister for Health the direct cost of doctors, hospital services, medications and so on by year, of coronary bypass surgery to the Irish health care system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27362/14]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It is not down to individuals within the HSE, and I am quite sure all individuals in the executive are fine people. I made a point about Mr. Liam Doran of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, who stated clearly at a committee meeting that his members felt reluctant in - and were sometimes fearful about - raising issues of concern in this country's hospitals. That would be a concern,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Yes, but whistleblowing is the buzzword of the day. In the original contract there was the issue of GPs being unable to raise issues that might prejudice the good name of the HSE. The word "oxymoron" may come to mind. Why would there be such a curtailment? While I can understand why a person would not be allowed to prejudice the name of something because they were unhappy in themselves, a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I am not. It is on the issue of contracts and whistleblowers. If there is such pressure on people, maybe we should include a clause in legislation that would allow people to be confident if they have concerns, in view of the fact that they have to renegotiate contracts with the HSE at a later stage. That is what I find problematic. A GP may see a deficiency in the service and a threat to...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Section 5 outlines the contractual issues involved. There are a few to which I referred earlier. In regard to GP practices, the emphasis in the 2001 primary care strategy document was on moving as many medical services as practical from the acute hospital setting to the primary care setting - GP surgeries and public health nurses - and providing care in the area where it was least complex...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I will make a general reply to the Minister of State's remarks before dealing with the detail of the Bill. I was one of the people who expressed a qualified and nuanced support for the legislation when it was discussed on Second Stage, in view of what has happened with regard to medical cards over the past two years. While the Minister of State says that GP care for children under the age...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (19 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 120. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will have a review carried out of the file of a person (details supplied) in County Cork in an effort to get a resolution to accuracy of his discharge files; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26387/14]