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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: And we got no answers. It was absolute nonsense. We are still waiting for answers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: There is a long-standing tradition that one does not refer to Members' absence from this House.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: There are plenty of you absent over there at the moment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Does the Taoiseach intend appointing any more Ministers of State to the Department of the Taoiseach in view of the fact that he is now hands-on in the Departments of Justice and Equality and Health? In view of his announcement today, it seems the Taoiseach is now running those Departments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Is there any intention of increasing the number of Ministers of State attached to the Department of the Taoiseach to assist him in his workload?
- Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: There is a correlation between the ambulance response time and the patient's outcome.
- Other Questions: Health Insurance Prices (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Gold-plated, the suggestion was.
- Other Questions: Health Insurance Prices (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: It is Deputy Cowen.
- Other Questions: Health Insurance Prices (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We want action. Conversations we have had a long time ago.
- Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Could the Minister elaborate? He might as well.
- Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: On your bike, Minister.
- Other Questions: Health Insurance Prices (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Would the Minister agree that Mr. Pat McLoughlin's review should also take into account Government policies on premium increases, the cap on tax relief and full cost recouping for private patients in public beds? These are key issues that have inflated private health insurance costs. In the context of asking the HIA to police the health insurance market, the Minister has many times...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I clarified what I meant.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: What about the position with regard to those with long-term illnesses?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister of State said at the outset that he has a vision for primary care, but it became clear as he neared the end of his reply that he has no vision because there are no actual plans in place to deal with what the Government committed to in its programme for Government. It is evident there has been no increase in funding in respect of primary care and that the continuing withdrawal of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Not only is the Minister of State playing with words, he is playing with people's lives when it comes to discretionary medical card withdrawals. Time and again when we have raised the issue of discretionary medical cards in this House, the response has been that there is no such entity as a discretionary medical card. Up until last year, every HSE service plan made provision for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I am not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 96. To ask the Minister for Health the action he proposes to take in view of the negative response of general practitioners to their proposed new contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15121/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We have attended meetings at which general practitioners expressed concern about the contract the Government has proposed in the context of the roll-out of universal general practitioner care for children aged under six years. This is not universal care in the sense that somebody will have to pay for it at some stage. Persons with severe intellectual disabilities and serious and life...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (1 Apr 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to deal with the health needs of an aging population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14861/14]