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- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: They have not been implemented.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I am saying that they have not been implemented and it is quite clear that there is a long way to go to ensure that we have safe practice in our emergency departments throughout the country, and that is not taking from the excellence of staff who work under extraordinary pressure day in day out.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister does of course.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I did not.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Instead of spinning, if the Minister cared to visit the HSE website, he would note it puts up its progress reports on a regular basis.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I raise this issue because of a letter written by the Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees Association to HIQA and the HSE. By any stretch of the imagination, it is extraordinary that people would go to these lengths to highlight difficulties in emergency departments. We have a situation where up to 400 patients can be waiting on trolleys at certain times in emergency departments throughout...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 204. To ask the Minister for Health when Health Service Executive staff who are working in an acting capacity and were assured as part of the Haddington Road Agreement that they would be converted to the full post by 1 October 2013 with back pay to 1 July 2013 will come into effect; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3026/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Application Numbers (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 221. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 761 of 15 January 2014, the reason the 2014 Health Service Executive service plan does not contain projections for the number of medical cards to be issued on a discretionary basis in 2014 in view of the fact the service plans for 2013 and 2012 did so and both of these plans specifically categorised them as...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (22 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if audits are carried out by the Health Service Executive on all section 39 organisations in receipt of HSE moneys; if so the regularity with which they are carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3180/14]
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: In regard to the White Paper on universal health insurance, the Minister for Health has undertaken to introduce universal health insurance at some point in the future. When will the commission established to look into this issue produce its report? The Minister has stated a report was imminent, but we are still awaiting it. On a more urgent and serious issue, when will the patient safety...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I told the Taoiseach that three years ago, but he did not listen.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister for Health is hiding them-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister for Health agrees with Deputy Healy.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 171. To ask the Taoiseach the names and amount by which each programme manager/special advisor has exceeded the relevant pay guidelines as laid down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2259/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (21 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: 638. To ask the Minister for Health the response times for 112-999 calls to Ballyshannon local ambulance call centre from Enniscrone and the Easkey area; if he will provide figures where the response time has been over fifteen minutes in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2731/14]
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: Has the Tánaiste a view on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I am sure the Minister is of the view that the Irish Medical Organisation would never be given to exaggeration in these matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome all our guests and thank them for outlining the position on the issues not covered yesterday. I wish to focus on some key areas. In the Minister's opening statement, he outlined progress to date and the strategy since the Government came into being in 2011. One of the key issues is universal health insurance and its roll-out and we await the publication of the White Paper on...
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: The Government is opposed to giving medical cards to sick people.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Billy Kelleher: That is factually incorrect.