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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (14 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 1. To ask the Minister for Health the consultations he has had with the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform, and Children and Youth Affairs with regard to the recruitment embargo in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21598/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (14 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The purpose of the question is to elicit information about discussions the Minister has had with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with regard to the recruitment embargo and its impact on front-line services. We all accept that when the downturn of the economy came upon us abruptly, there was a necessity to try to stabilise the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 19. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his talks about talks with the representative organisations of general practitioners regarding their proposed new contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21252/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance Provision (14 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 25. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the implementation of universal health insurance; when he expects people to know the likely cost to them of universal health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21251/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Provision (14 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the number of airlifts that have been made from County Donegal to hospital in Galway over the past three years; the number of those that were heart patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21610/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Provision (14 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of heart patients that have been airlifted from County Donegal to Galway over the past three years that have fallen outside the 90 minute completion time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21611/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Provision (14 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of heart patients that have been airlifted from County Donegal to Galway over the past three years that did not survive; of those the number that them were outside the 90 minute completion time for the transfer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21612/14]

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Year on year the budget has gone down. It is an accounting exercise and that is the difficulty. The Government has transferred €37 million from one paragraph to another subhead.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: That is what is happening. It is highlighted in the Government's budgetary arithmetic. It has highlighted the fact it will target €113 million in medical card probity. That is a stealth word for reducing the number of discretionary medical cards. The reason discretionary medical cards are being targeted for a cost-saving exercise is that they are being used all the time because...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: -----and that is that I see no reason a person who contracted motor neurone disease four or five years ago and was granted a discretionary medical card should be contacted again. It is beyond belief that such a person would be asked to furnish new medical information. If there are clinicians on that clinical panel, they should know full well that the disease is incurable but we have a...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the party next to me for tabling the motion which gives me an opportunity to speak on the issue. At the outset of his speech the Minister of State said:It is not the first time it falls to me to put on the record of the House that with regard to medical cards allocated on the basis of discretion, there is no policy to abolish such cards; there is no deliberate "targeting" in order to...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister of State said there is no such entity as a discretionary medical card.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The point is that more than 80,000 people had such an entity for a number of years and had been granted a medical card on discretionary grounds based on their illness. Deputies who have already spoken on this Sinn Féin motion have outlined some terrible examples and every Deputy in the House has come across it. Time and again people's discretionary medical cards are being withdrawn...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (13 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 381. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of special needs clients in receipt of disability allowance who are attending special needs schools and facilities throughout the country (details supplied) who currently have their payment under review; the number who have had their payment cut off in the past six months following the review; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 609. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21223/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (13 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 627. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment to be seen by the child and adolescent mental health service [21340/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (8 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 147. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason 11 households in the townland of Coronea, Skibbereen, County Cork are not connected to the main sewerage scheme in view of the fact that it is within 400 metres of their homes, and that the treatment plant is in Coronea and they believe sufficient funding is available for this purpose; his views on the likely...

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (8 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 212. To ask the Minister for Health if changes to EU VAT Directive 132 to allow for a zero VAT rate to be placed on defibrillators was promoted by him during the Irish Presidency of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20695/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 215. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have a dedicated multiple sclerosis nurse in the mid-west region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20710/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Report (8 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 217. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a recent article (details supplied) in relation to proposed redress for symphysiotomy patients which has caused a lot of confusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20722/14]