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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 262. To ask the Minister for Health if under the public service embargo the Health Service Executive have been given leeway to hire non medical staff in hospitals to alleviate the pressure of staffing shortages due to sick leave numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10189/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 263. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive have outsourced the processing of medical card applications; the names of the company-companies involved; when these contracts were entered into; the length of the contracts undertaken; the value of said contracts; the number of applications being processed by this company-companies compared to that being processed by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (26 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 224. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to Health Service Executive reviews of eligibility that are to be conducted in a risk-assessed manner in relation to approximately one million medical card holders during 2014, the number of reviews that took place in January 2014; the number of medical cards discontinued as a result of these reviews; the number of reviews where a persons income...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (26 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 269. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 223 of 19 February 2014, if the number of medical cards granted on the basis of the exercise of discretion increased by 27,415 between the 1 January 2014 and 1 February 2014; the reason the trend in place for the past two years has been reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9969/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (26 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 270. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance at the end of 2013 in each of the following age groups, 17 years and under, 18 to 29 years, 30 to 39 years, 40 to 49 years, 50 to 59 years, 60 to 69 years, 60 to 79 years, 80 years and over [9972/14]

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak. We will be supporting the Bill. It was included in a health information Bill when the heads of that Bill were approved by the Government in 2009. This was clearly an issue that was discussed in the context of the troika to ensure health identifiers were put on a statutory basis. For that reason, we feel it is an appropriate Bill. In general, when one...

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Including his party's manifestos. The Minister of State has read them too.

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: As we look into the future, and not too far into the future, we know health care will become very expensive in the years ahead. The idea of having people in the acute hospital setting for longer periods than they should be makes no economic sense and is certainly not good patient practice in terms of communicable diseases and other problems associated with people in high-density acute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Response Times: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the presentation by the ambulance services. No one is criticising the staff at the coalface of the ambulance service. We should be clear about that. We are here to try to shed some light on the challenges facing front-line services, to see where there are deficiencies and if we can highlight and throw some light on that, as well as determine where additional resources are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Response Times: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Will Mr. Dixon shed some light on the HIQA guidelines for the first responder to be at a location within seven minutes 59 seconds? He said the rapid response vehicles are meant to complement the ambulances rather than replace them. Is it the case that the rapid response vehicle is sometimes the only vehicle dispatched to a very serious traumas, such as a heart attack? Does that happen...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role his Department plays in schools amalgamation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9090/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason two primary schools (details supplied) in County Cork are being proposed for amalgamation despite the overwhelming opposition of parents of children at both schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9089/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (25 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 690. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 5 February 2014 if he will provide the details of the 2014 budgets for hospitals (details supplied) and the 2013 outturn for same. [9397/14]

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: What evidence has the Taoiseach that they will not?

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Can the Taoiseach say?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Recruitment (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of posts that will be created at the new Irish consulate in Austin, Texas; the job descriptions of same; where they will be advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8504/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of employing clerical administrative agency staff within the Health Service Executive on an annual basis for the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8389/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Data (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clerical agency staff that were employed by the Health Service Executive in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8390/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the amount it would cost to fill all current vacant front line posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8391/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (19 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the potential saving if the Health Service Executive were allowed recruit critical front-line staff on the new rates of pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8393/14]