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Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Every family's health insurance policy is gold-plated, according to this Government.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if it is permissible for hospital consultants who admit patients on a private basis to transfer those patients to the public system for the purposes of availing of publicly funded surgical procedures or elective treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4582/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (30 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 197. To ask the Minister for Health his assessment of the impact of the appointment of a liquidator at Mount Carmel Hospital, Dublin, on the public health system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4583/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (30 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised since the announcement of a 30% pay cut in 2012 for such positions; the number of applications received for the posts; the number of applications accepted; the number of appointments offered; the number of offers of such appointments rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4728/14]

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: It was changed in the published version to "some service priorities...may not be met."

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: That was sanitising the truth in terms of what will be achieved in the provision of service in this plan.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: All of us here tonight, including those on the other side of the House, know that if this plan is to be implemented in full, there will be further cutbacks in services; it is written into it. This will include cutbacks in the area of the fair deal scheme, funding for the elderly, provision of long-term and respite care, and provision of home helps and home-care packages. All these are being...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The amount paid by Laya Healthcare to the Mater Private Hospital was €16,905.75, meaning the person in question owed the Mater Private Hospital €375. Those figures relate to the accommodation only. The cardiac surgery itself cost €2,000. Laya Healthcare paid €17,000 for one night's accommodation in the Mater Private Hospital. The difficulty we have with all of...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: When one is in government, one must make decisions and stand by them. I do not think the Government should hide behind the Commission on Taxation with regard to this issue.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: This is a tax on hard-pressed families that are already finding it extremely difficult to retain their private health insurance. The Government intends to move to universal health insurance in the next few years, but what will we have in the meantime? The Government and the health insurers are out-competing each other to inflate the cost of private health insurance for families.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I have. I will outline them in good time. However, the Minister is being hoodwinked to a certain extent. I give this advice. It is not in the private health insurers' interests to keep down the cost of private health insurance to families because they know that the Government, if it continues with its universal health insurance policy, will row in at some stage and pick up the slack. That...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome all the contributions to the motion I moved on behalf of Fianna Fáil. What surprises me is that praise was lavished on the Minister for Health, the Minister of State, Deputy White, in his absence-----

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: -----and on the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, by Deputies opposite. However, in view of the fact so much praise was lavished on them in our Private Members' time, I cannot understand why they pulled the six hour debate scheduled for Government time when it would have given the Government Deputies more time to lavish more praise on the Ministers because, as we well know, most Ministers'...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The real reason they pulled the six hour debate scheduled for today was not because Fianna Fáil had tabled a Private Members' motion on health but that it would have stifled debate. Six hours on top of our three hours would have brought it to nine hours. That would have given Deputies ample time to go through the detail of the HSE service plan and to highlight their concerns and, in...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The Deputy clearly has not read the motion.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Irish Water is one option.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names and contact details of the consultants appointed to address flooding in Glanmire, County Cork, the terms of reference; the time scale for carrying out the works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4401/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding has been allocated in relation to the preparation of a report and carrying out of works to ensure that a reoccurrence of the June 2012 flooding will not happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4402/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has drawn up a report on mortality rates in hospitals here; the status of this document; his plans to publish a report on mortality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4412/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Cases (29 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims for compensation after cancer misdiagnosis that have been taken against the Health Service Executive, its officers or public voluntary hospitals in each of the past ten years; the nature of the claims; the date and the hospitals involved; the number of cases that were settled; the amount in total paid out in settlement for each claim;...