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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I will carry my burdens as well. We are talking about a 130-bed hospital. It had a very good track record, not only in the early maternity area. Even accepting that it is not Government policy or best international practice to have stand-alone small maternity units, the issue of elective surgery must be considered. Such surgery was being provided continually. One should also bear in mind...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: We should explore this issue further with the National Asset Management Agency, if necessary in writing in the event that representatives of the agency are unwilling to come before the joint committee to answer questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Yes. I thank the witnesses for their presentations and the responses to the questions. The key issues are probably areas on which they cannot give us information in terms of what exactly was on offer. We will have to explore that perhaps through written correspondence with NAMA or others, while respecting the legislation that underpins this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I respect NAMA's right to state that, but we certainly were not asking NAMA to come in to comment on Government policy; we were asking it to comment on the fact that it consented with the owner, Mr. Conlon, to go to the High Court to liquidate the hospital. That is the key issue. We wanted to find out whether a certain number of millions of euro would have sustained this entity to the point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Deputy Mathews referred to the interest rate payment. Is that included in the operating loss figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It should be included in normal accountancy practice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I thank Mr. McAnenly for his presentation. I am delighted the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has come before the committee. We will also have a discussion with the Minister and the Department of Health. We requested that NAMA come before the committee but it declined. It has furnished us with some documentation which does not throw much light on what we would like to find out...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 694. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a three and a half year old child (details supplied) is still awaiting assessment; the reason for the delay; if he will ensure that further early intervention is not missed out on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7606/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 704. To ask the Minister for Health if the payments regarding the Health Service Executive initiative for the outsourcing of the adult hearing aid services were front-loaded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7701/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 705. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the initiative for the outsourcing of the adult hearing aid services, if the contract was completed within the agreed timeframe for the testing and fitting of a hearing aid and the follow-up assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7702/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 709. To ask the Minister for Health following the announcement that a county nursing home (details supplied) will not meet the Health Information and Quality Authority physical environment standards by the authority's deadline of July 2015, if the facility will have to get a dispensation from the national quality standards or if it is planned to revise the HIQA physical environment standards;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if discretionary medical cards are being awarded for primary immunodeficiencies patients; if he will provide in tabular form the number of PID patients who have been awarded discretionary medical cards over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7851/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 725. To ask the Minister for Health if the hospital fees incurred by a cancer patient (details supplied) in County Cork during the lengthy processing time for a medical card application which was successful will now be cleared by the Health Service Executive; if so the timeframe for same as the pressure is causing tremendous stress to a person who is currently undergoing extensive treatment;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 732. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that some patients waiting long periods for outpatient appointments are no longer appearing on official waiting lists but are being placed on a separate review list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7971/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 733. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients on outpatient lists since the start of 2013 that have been transferred to private hospitals for appointments; the cost of this over the timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7972/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (18 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 734. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that persons on outpatient waiting lists have been written to and asked if they still wanted an appointment; if they are removed from the lists, if they do not reply within a three day timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7973/14]

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I am highlighting the problems and would like to highlight the solutions some day. In the meantime, there is no point in me coming into this House and pretending, as the Minister is doing, that everything is okay. Everything is not okay.

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The point we make is that this legislation will not add anything to patient safety and the delivery of health care. There were a few planks in the Minister's manifesto. The key one was the development of primary care and the other one was to move to universal health insurance. We are certainly putting the cart before the horse in this legislation in respect of the abolition of the HSE,...

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. The consensual arrangement we had earlier in regard to the sunbeds legislation has to stop at this stage and we have to go into a more adversarial mode. I do that in the best interests of the need for us to have a very open debate on how we fund our health services in the years ahead. Reference was made in the Minister's opening speech to...