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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations Refurbishment (7 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the temporary Garda portacabin in Blarney, County Cork will be removed as the Garda station is now open. [20435/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (7 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the roll-out of broadband for the Kerry Pike area, County Cork. [20437/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (7 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 137. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the reorganisation of the Avondhu Blackwater Partnership Ltd. and Leader groups throughout the country, the measures he has introduced to ensure that rural communities will not lose community workers; the safeguards that have been put in place in order that the community spirit and co-operation that has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (7 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 191. To ask the Minister for Health as per the Health Information and Quality Authority regulatory notice (details supplied) the reason community nursing units Ballina and Swinford district hospitals are not required to register with HIQA and not subject to authority inspection; is it the case that all community nursing units are required under Part 8 of the Health Act 2007 to fully register...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (7 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 192. To ask the Minister for Health as per the Health Information and Quality Authority regulatory notice RN002/2013 and the Health Service Executive correspondence (details supplied), the reason community nursing units at Ballina and Swinford district hospitals are not regarded as designated centres under the 2009 regulations arising from Health Act 2007 and do not require registration with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (7 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 193. To ask the Minister for Health as per the Health Information and Quality Authority regulatory notice RN002/2013 (details supplied), his views that private and voluntary nursing homes are rightly subject to the Health and Information Quality Authority registration and inspection but Ballina and Swinford district hospitals and community nursing units are not subject to same registration...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Card Eligibility (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: My difficulty is that we have been raising this issue for over two years. In that time we have drawn a complete blank in obtaining an admission that there is a difficulty in respect of those with discretionary medical cards. Last week, however, there was some semblance of a response from the Minister when some 20 of his colleagues in Fine Gael raised this issue at a parliamentary party...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Card Eligibility (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly. What is happening in the provision of discretionary medical cards is simply deplorable and something must be done to alleviate the burden being imposed on families. Those affected include individuals who are very ill, some of whom are terminally ill, and many facing huge challenges and difficulties in their everyday lives. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent on the carer's allowance scheme in 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20136/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 243. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent on the carer's benefit scheme in 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20138/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Application Numbers (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on the fair deal scheme in 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20140/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Application Numbers (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of eligible clients that were beneficiaries of the fair deal scheme in 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20141/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 365. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that there are 300 people on the waiting list for nursing orientation courses in the Cork University Hospital and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19986/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to expedite emergency visas for nurses and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20018/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 369. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the long delays with An Bord Altranais to clear PIN numbers for nurse registration and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20019/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to Sligo Regional Hospital to enable it to take the remaining steps to become a fully functional diabetes centre for the north-west/west region for children and teens with type 1 diabetes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20157/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 432. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time for which he will monitor the progress of the early access to medicines scheme that was recently introduced in the UK before examining the possibility of introducing a similar scheme here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20293/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 434. To ask the Minister for Health in advance of any decision regarding the possible introduction of an early access of medicines scheme here, if he will consider bringing the pharmaceutical industry together to have preliminary talks in relation to their possible participation; and if so how soon would he envisage these talks taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (6 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 433. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a definitive list of areas of unmet medical need in terms of medicines either off-label or unlicensed; if not, if he will consider the compilation of such a list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20294/14]

Order of Business (1 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to ask about two Bills. When will the Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill to provide GP services to persons aged five years and under be debated in the House? We now find that 30,000 discretionary medical cards have been withdrawn in the past year or thereabouts.