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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 646. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the current level of podiatry services being offered at Grattan Street Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16530/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 647. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of podiatrists to patients at Grattan Street Cork; his views on whether this is an acceptable situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16531/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 648. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancellations of appointments on a monthly basis for the past 18 months to attend the podiatrist at Grattan Street Cork; the reason for the cancellations; if he will ask the Health Service Executive to review the services at Grattan Street Cork to ensure that the necessary resources are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 649. To ask the Minister for Health if he will guarantee that diabetes patients are afforded podiatry appointments in a timely and frequent manor as necessitated because of their illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16533/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that following a recent FOI request it was established that the Health Service Executive west is unaware of the amount of money it spent in 2013 on running quit smoking courses across the west; if he is satisfied with the lack of accountability on the part of the HSE west; if he will ensure that these moneys are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (8 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 684. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of medical cards as of 1 April 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. [16739/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Just to clarify, that was not a concession. It was an observation as opposed to a concession.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I remind the Minister that he has had four years in government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: However, this is his fourth year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: This is a health committee not a history committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: How many years is it, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It is the Government's fourth year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I may have to leave at some stage before the witnesses might get to my questions but I will be observing their responses from my office. The Minister outlined his pathway to universal health insurance yesterday. We welcome the publication of the White Paper which will hopefully stimulate some form of discourse and broader debate about how we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: There is a reduction in the number of medical cards. We can assume this is because of two things - a drop in unemployment and a number of people emigrating. We are not quite sure but we hope that it is primarily due to a take-up in employment figures. What is disturbing is that we are now down to 50,501 discretionary medical cards. Over the past number of years, the Minister has...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Qualifications (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when an approved training course for BER assessors will be put back in place; and when the necessary registration examinations will commence. [15715/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (3 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider re-examining the excessive road taxes charged prior to July 2008 for seven-seater cars. [15717/14]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: -----looking for his head, someone on its side would have to fall. I am almost certain that, to take the pressure off the Government, the Taoiseach decided to sacrifice the Commissioner, Mr. Callinan. This is a shameful saga in the administration of justice and the Minister is culpable.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister should think back to 2002.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Government does not trust him.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to summarise some of the points that have been made. It is important to put the matter in context while we are discussing this motion of no confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality. We need only think back a short period when the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, made his public comments at a road safety conference. He said that the...