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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Alteration of Eligibility Criteria) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The difficulty I have with the legislation before us is that it will lead to the numbers of those over 70 years of age who qualify for medical cards being reduced. There is no way around that. All of the evidence the Minister for Health has cited in respect of free GP care for the under fives indicates that it will be a cost-saving measure. Logic dictates that if the latter is true, then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the witnesses for their submissions and particularly for sharing their personal experiences with us. The more I read about Lyme disease and the more I have heard about it through the awareness campaign that the witnesses are engaged in, the more confused I become about the actual process of diagnosis. Is it a very difficult disease to diagnose or is the problem a lack of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I asked that question because I read somewhere that blood testing can sometimes yield false results whereby people are diagnosed as having Lyme disease when actually they are carrying the antibodies to the disease. In that context, I am wondering if blood testing sometimes gives false indications of the prevalence of the disease. I ask for clarity on that question. Is it a notifiable disease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The key question, then, is whether it is always notified. Is there a follow-up system in place after diagnosis? If GPs and clinicians in general are unaware of the disease, then they are probably also unaware of the fact that it is a notifiable disease. I ask the witnesses for their observations on that issue. On the broader issue, home care packages were mentioned. Witnesses also spoke...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in the review of the disadvantaged area aid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when a decision will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49892/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Trusts (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 216. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of the model 4 hospitals in each new hospital group, details of the model 3 hospitals in same and details of the model 2 hospitals in same; and in regard to this category, if it is a model 2D, a model 2S or a model 2R; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49935/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Trusts (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 217. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the nine smaller hospitals which are to be model 2 hospitals, if he will provide in tabular form for each hospital a list of services that are currently available in those hospitals that will will no longer be available when the framework is put in place; the timeline for these changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49936/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €3 million funding for autism services that he announced in January 2012 that has been spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49937/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 219. To ask the Minister for Health if capital works have been stalled or ceased in the three children's hospitals in Dublin in view of the plans for the new hospital that have been announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49941/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current status of the primary care centre projects announced on 17 July 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49942/13]

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Did the Minister read the Labour Party manifesto?

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Some three years ago, Deputy Durkan said the opposite.

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I am being constructive.

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I am hopeful rather than optimistic. Where is the social dividend?

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The two point plan.

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. Before I came into the House, I was listening to the contributions of many Deputies. I also looked back over some of the debates on the ECB-IMF deal when it was being negotiated in November-December 2010. I read the contributions of some of the main Opposition spokespersons at the time in the Official Report. What was said then and what...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I do not know because we have not been told. Three years ago we were told that we were being disingenuous because we had not told the people the full truth and the import of what was happening in the discussions. Three years on, as the Minister of State will be aware because he has access to the files, the Government had little choice but to accept the need for a bailout programme. It did...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (19 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Health Insurance Authority, HIA, is due to publish a detailed analysis of the health insurance market on 18 December. Would it not be more appropriate to debate the Bill when the HIA has issued its report, which will contain detailed information on the health insurance market and the difficulties relating to same?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (19 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I could oppose the Order for Second Stage.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (19 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It is not agreed.