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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (4 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national treatment purchase fund December waiting lists report was not published as of 25 February 2013 in view of the fact that he previously indicated that the publication of such information occur simultaneously with the publication of Health Service Executive monthly reports, the December edition of which was published last week. [10434/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Issues (4 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the specific issues that caused three members of the Health Information and Quality Authority board to resign from their positions earlier this month; when he was first advised of the likelihood of these resignations occurring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10512/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (4 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 412. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a recent Irish Medical News survey of general practitioners which indicated that 90% of those surveyed do not believe that the Government was right to prioritise under sixes in the first phase of plans for universal GP care; that 97% of the GPs do not believe that general practice is adequately funded and resourced; that 96 % of the GPs do not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (4 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 413. To ask the Minister for Health his response to a recent Irish Medical News survey of general practitioners which indicated that four-fifths of GPs feel that the proposed new GP contract represents a conflict of interest for them in terms of their compliance with the medical practitioners act, professional competence and other laws governing GPs; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (4 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 414. To ask the Minister for Health if he or any of his Departments Ministers of State have personally written any part of the proposed new GP contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10515/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (4 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 421. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Laois who is trying to live independently and is working has been refused a medical card. [10528/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roadworthiness Testing (4 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 509. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will change the regulations requiring the testing of trucks and trailers that are currently off the road and have been certified as being off the road for road tax purposes, resulting in an increasing the financial burden on already hard pressed hauliers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10506/14]

Order of Business (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Is it being put as is?

Order of Business (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: That is not agreed. It is proposed that next week we will have a debate on the Government's priorities for the year ahead. I suspect this is happening because Members opposite may not have enough time to praise themselves at the Fine Gael Ard-Fheis, so they want the debate to continue in the House next week.

Order of Business (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The reason I am opposing this is because next Tuesday, Leaders' Questions shall be taken and there shall be no oral questions, questions to the Taoiseach, topical issues or Order of Business within the meaning of Standing Order 26. No legislation is being proposed next week, so we will be talking about the Government's priorities instead. The priorities were outlined in the programme for...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I was born for moments like this, to make decisions. We will agree to that provided-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It was promised it would be done overnight.

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: On a point of information, the White Paper was to be published 18 months after the Government was formed, and the Government was formed three years ago.

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: At the heart of the Government's policy in the programme for Government are two key issues with regard to health, the introduction of free GP care for all by end of the lifetime of the Government and the establishment of universal health insurance after the next election. By any stretch of the imagination and to say the very least and be polite, progress to date has been minimal. There is...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: -----which will decide whether health is rationed and what sort of basic policies will be put in place with regard to cover for ordinary families in this country?

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Labour Party may have been proposing a universal health insurance model but it was on a funding system of social insurance as opposed to private insurance companies funding the health model. There is quite a large difference between the two. At the outset, the Tánaiste said the Government wants to introduce a policy that would give access to people based on their medical need as...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Does the Tánaiste accept that, after three years, we now have a situation where the Minister for Health has been completely isolated in government? The Minister for Finance, by his policies, consistently undermines the basic principle of universal health insurance, which is a dynamic private health insurance market where people can afford insurance. Every policy the Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It is not the position of the Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Rare Diseases Day: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentations. There are several issues which have to be discussed and teased out on a broader basis. One relates to the support for individual families and the difficulties they face on a daily basis in dealing with rare diseases. Another issue is how to fund and put in place a proper system whereby we can have collaborative research and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 142. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any mechanism by which a person who is currently unemployed can sign for credits where they failed to do so due to lack of knowledge of the system for over the two year period set down by her Department. [10191/14]