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- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: ----- on Rehab services and other charitable organisations to supplement what the State should be doing. Effectively, that is the case here.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Some straightforward openness and transparency is needed on the Government's side, as well as that of Rehab.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hepatitis C Compensation Payments (23 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 222. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department has received a submission from Positive Action in relation to women who received Anti D but who are testing negative; the actions he is taking in relation to the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3289/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (23 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 223. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department are considering allowing the small number of women who have received Anti D and have side effects but are testing negative to receive medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3290/14]
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: But-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The reason Ward Watch is in place is that trolleys were being hidden in hospitals.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: What about the Tallaght report?
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister has forgotten what he said.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: This is in the Minister's FairCare document before the last election.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: He has had three years to resolve this issue. It is also stated in his FairCare document that accountability will be transferred to the Minister. I am asking the Minister to be accountable at this stage. At least address the issue in our emergency departments and accept that the recommendations in the Tallaght Hospital report should be implemented in our emergency departments throughout...
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I do not seek to represent it; I do represent it.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: If the Minister was being honest all he had to said at the end of his reply was that the prince and princess got married and they all lived happily every after because it is fairytale stuff.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The fact of the matter is that the Minister only had to go on to the IMO website and check the trolley watch; what he is doing is playing with figures.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The simple fact is that 467 people were on trolleys in Irish hospitals-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: -----on the 8th. The bottom line-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: We know why they are on trolleys. They are on them because they have been transferred from the emergency departments up the wards but they are still on trolleys. That is the reason the Minister agreed that at least there would be a ward trolley count as well. What has happened is that the trolleys are being moved.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: They were being counted in our time too. The Minister used to come in every day of the week and-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: -----the first thing he would raise was the trolley count, the point being that the Minister is manipulating the figures.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I am saying that in January of this year, by any stretch of the imagination, it has not been a good year in terms of the number of people who are on trolleys, particularly given that it was a central plank in the Minister's policies to drive down the number of people waiting on trolleys in emergency departments. We had a case of 426 people on trolleys on the 6th, 461 on the 7th and 467 on...
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: That is simply unacceptable. There was a case recently of ambulances waiting outside CUH in Cork because they were unable to discharge patients due to the emergency department being overcrowded. Ambulances that there required elsewhere were waiting because the hospital could not discharge the patients. The Minister is trying to tell me that after three years that he has achieved an awful...