Results 6,361-6,380 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the fact that the information is being provided but up until now the position was that one was billed and one paid the net sum and the insurance company deducted at source and was reimbursed at a later stage. What is happening now is that there will be an additional cost on the average health insurance policy of any family in the State whereas we were told initially that it would...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: On a point of information, they do not insist on a figure of 12%.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Yes.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: To be clear, Article 106(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union clarifies whether risk equalisation constitutes a state aid. It does not include a reference to whether the relevant figure should be 8%, 9% or 10%. According to the Minister, the figure is determined by the HIA on the basis of its assessment of what would be a reasonable profit rate return on equity. If we...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Central to the principle of intergenerational solidarity is community rating and risk equalisation. It is obvious from the statistics that insurers are cherry-picking the newer entrants to the markets. One of the reasons for the choice of 260 policies arises from a Bill on advanced and non-advanced health care products. We were told at one stage that a substantial number of existing...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: My amendment is straightforward and central to ensuring the VHI will not be over-compensated once it hits a 10% return on its equity. I did not see the advice from the HIA, but the Minister has more often than not rejected and ignored the recommendations of the HIA.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, line 15, to delete "12 per cent" and substitute "10 per cent".The purpose of this amendment is to reduce the relevant figure from 12% to 10%. The rationale behind it is quite simple. Under the provision in the Bill, VHI can make up to 12% profit on its equity before it is deemed to be over-compensated by the fund. Any analysis of the equity and return on...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I ask the Minister for clarity in regard to this section, but if I have made an error and am raising the wrong issue, let me know and I will finish. The Health Insurance Authority did an assessment, as did some other independent people, regarding the amount of money that would be raised by charging private patients the full cost of a public bed. Is this the section that redefines beds?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: What is this section about?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: That would help me a lot.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: This is returned to insurers, is it?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Issues (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 414. To ask the Minister for Health if he supports amendments Nos. 30, 191, 193, 250 and 253 to the European legislation on clinical trials on medical products for human consumption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51532/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treasury Management Agency Reports (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 434. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Treatment Purchase Fund will no longer publish waiting lists at a time separate from the publication of Health Service Executive monthly reports; if this will result in significant delays in publication of timely and up-to-date information in view of the fact that publication of National Treatment Purchase Fund figures for September...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (3 Dec 2013)
Billy Kelleher: 439. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new discretionary medical cards that have issued to date in 2013; the number of new discretionary GP cards that have issued to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51727/13]
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Was it not Labour Party policy before the election?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: They continued to pay them. They honoured every one of them in full.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: They had to another U-turn on their policies. Is that what they had to do?
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The ephemeral joy of responsible politics - auction politics is back on the agenda again with the Labour Party conference in Killarney over the weekend. There are a number of pressing issues on which I would like the Tánaiste's view. He spoke about the coping classes and the need to-----
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I just want to-----
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I just want to raise the issue of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill.