Results 6,421-6,440 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 308. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures in place to help persons with a disability in the 2013 Action Plan for Jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50352/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific measures in the 2013 Action Plan for Jobs that will improve the employment opportunities of persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50353/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies Funding (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 588. To ask the Minister for Health if the reported €150million Exchequer investment in VHI will be found from the 2013 health budget or will have to added to the 2014 budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50231/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies Accounts (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 589. To ask the Minister for Health if the 2012 VHI annual report has been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50232/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies Accounts (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 592. To ask the Minister for Health if the VHI 2012 annual report and accounts have been published; if he has received same; the relevant rules regarding their publication following his receipt of same; the timeframe for their being laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50242/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the €18 million intervention fund announced last May to tackle waiting lists; if any of the €18 million has been used to provide private treatment for those on waiting lists; if so, the amount; the number of procedures this funding achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50391/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 616. To ask the Minister for Health if the national dementia strategy will be published in 2013; if an allocation of funding has been made for the 2014 Estimate in order to allow implementation of the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50406/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 630. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing home fees are taken into consideration when assessing medical card applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50572/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 631. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Treatment Purchase Fund will publish its national waiting list data for September 2013; the reason it remained unpublished as of 20 November 2013 in view of the fact that the August 2013 waiting list data were published three weeks into September; if he will direct that a separate September report be published and that there be no repeat...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the reason charges continue to be placed on medical card holders for the taking of blood samples by general practitioners; if he will detail the actions taken on this issue since July 2012; the further actions he proposes to take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50653/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (26 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 660. To ask the Minister for Health if he has at any stage since 9 March 2011 sought approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the Department of Finance for any salary or remuneration package with an annual value above €145,000 to be provided to any hospital administrator or hospital group administrator; if so, the date on which the approval was sought; if and...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Represented.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I certainly know the Minister is not happy with it. There were leaks about very strong words between the Ministers on this issue which undermined the Minister's credibility with regard to the private health insurance market.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister opposed it. He opposed the levy. The only way we can have community rating is through a transfer from people who are low risk to those who are high risk. That is the purpose of community rating and there must be a levy to do this. The Minister opposed the levy, which means that he opposed community rating. A levy is the only way the transfer can be made to those who need it...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Many of them were selected under very questionable criteria, as the Minister well knows.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: We had that debate before and it highlighted that there were difficulties regarding the selection process. Let us leave that aside for another day. The primary principle of this legislation is to support risk equalisation, as the Minister stated, but it is doing the opposite because of the other policies being pursued. If the Minister came in here and said he would increase the levy but...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister knows it would. The principle of community rating is for younger, healthier people to continually enter the health insurance market and cross-subsidise older people who need health services. That is an actuarial, statistical fact, or, in the Minister's language, an algorithmic progression.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: That will not happen because 6,000 young people are dropping out of private health insurance every month.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It will be exacerbated by this policy in view of the fact that the Minister has already brought forward other policies that inflate private health insurance premiums. That the Minister can sit there and pretend that is not the case defies logic. I thought we were in difficulties but I now realise we face graver difficulties than I thought.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thought at some stage the Minister might realise his policies are undermining the very proposals of universal health insurance he and the Minister for Finance espouse. It was an appalling attack on ordinary families who, day in day out, are doing their best to retain their private health insurance. In October or November last year the Minister came to the Dáil with a Health...