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- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: There was compassion.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: I thank the officials and the Minister for coming to outline a Supplementary Estimate from the Department of Health. We do not want to rewrite history but a Supplementary Estimate for health without a change in policy is new, and the HSE did not have Supplementary Estimates for a long number of years. There may have been Supplementary Estimates because of a change in policy but the figures...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: On the increased allocation of €104 million for the PCRS and community demand-led schemes, by their nature they are demand-led and therefore it is difficult to assess the final budgetary outturn. The difficulty I have with this is that we seem to be of the view that discretionary medical cards are being reduced even though that is stringently denied by the Minister, the HSE, the...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: On subhead B3, this is an issue that is arising in all the regions but I will raise it in the context of HSE south of which I have a greater intimate knowledge. We have a difficulty where there are organisations, such as COPE Foundation and St. Joseph's Foundation in Charleville, which provide care and services to persons in the community and which at the same time are obligated to honour...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: I do not expect the Minister to be.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: In terms of the Estimate with regard to HSE south region, organisations, such as COPE Foundation and St. Joseph's Foundation, will be penalised because they efficiently provide service. They are obligated to honour the pay agreements. Whether such are pay increases or decreases is not the point. They are obliged to pay.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: So it is an annual meeting.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: That is factually incorrect, Chairman. A Supplementary Estimate was never required.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: This area must be examined also.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for outlining the reasons he is before us today with regard to a Supplementary Estimate for 2013. I suppose it is no surprise that we are where we are in terms of a Supplementary Estimate. Any person who looked at the Estimate that was presented last year would have stated there and then that a Supplementary Estimate would be required. As the year drifted on that...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Billy Kelleher: The question is this: what are the hidden costs of restructuring? We never seem to get any definitive answers to that question. Are there initial costs in terms of the Minister's restructuring programme? I refer not to the roll-out of universal health insurance and all the other areas, but to the internal restructuring under which the HSE is being brought into the Department, with the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Book Rental Scheme (12 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the book loan scheme that he recently announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53449/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Book Rental Scheme (12 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools who have previously been operating a book loan scheme will be eligible for financial support under the book loan scheme he recently announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53450/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (12 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full report on all works carried out in Glanmire, County Cork since the flooding in June of 2012; the preventative measures that have been undertaken and the works that still remain outstanding, and if he will provide a timeframe for said works to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53423/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (11 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been paid in compensation over the past three years by the Health Service Executive either through the courts or by settlement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53156/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Disputes (11 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 176. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's assessment of the possible impact on health services of an ESB strike; the precautionary measures in place; if all hospitals will be in a position to generate electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53176/13]
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Neither did the Minister of State. She never rang me to say things were going to fall off a cliff.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I support the general points made by Deputy Naughten. We have been debating this issue both in this House on Committee Stage and in general health debates for some time. The bottom line is that while the Department of Health puts its head in the sand, thinking the health insurance market will improve, the opposite is the case. We have had more alarming figures today with regard to the...
- Topical Issue Debate: HSE Staff Remuneration (10 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I appreciate the Minister of State's reply in this context. As I said at the outset, this is not impugning anybody's character but it would be remiss of me in my role as an Opposition spokesperson not to raise the issue and call for clarity and a statement from Mr. O'Brien as director general of the HSE which, bear in mind, oversees the spending of approximately €13 billion per year...
- Topical Issue Debate: HSE Staff Remuneration (10 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I want to say at the outset that I am conscious we are talking about an individual who is not here to speak for himself. I do not want to impugn anybody's character or integrity but in the public interest I would be failing in my duties if I did not raise this issue. We need to get a full statement of clarification following reports that the director general of the Health Service Executive,...