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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Ombudsman said that the system was being changed by stealth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Deputy Ó Caoláin raised this point as well. The figure of €666 million in savings has been identified and €113 million of that is to be achieved from a probity review of medical cards. I am wondering about the profiling and the assessment of how that figure was arrived at. That is the point I was making. There was a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers in this regard.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: How many bankers has Deputy Shatter locked up today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for Health and wish Mr. O'Brien the best of luck in his new role. In respect of the HIQA report on the death of Savita Halappanavar, guidelines were issued in 2007 after the death of Tania McCabe in the context of national guidelines on dealing with sepsis. The investigation into Savita's death highlighted the fact that only five maternity units had implemented the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply in tabular form, the number of discretionary medical cards in each local health area at the end of 2010, 2011 and 2012; and the most recent figures for same [43890/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, according to local health area the number of medical cards discontinued as a result of the Budget 2013 changes implemented in the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act 2013 [43891/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no paediatrics urologist has been appointed to Temple Street University Hospital despite the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalous Ireland organisation being told in February 2012 that the post was ready to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43921/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 198. To ask the Minister for Health his views that the appointment of a paediatric urologist at Temple Street University Hospital will in view of the ongoing debate on organ donation prove to be a pro-active measure in trying to prevent the need for future kidney transplants amongst patients such as spina bifidia sufferers [43927/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cover (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance for each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and to date in 2013 in each of the following age groups, 17 years and under, 18 to 29 years, 30 to 39 years, 40 to 49 years, 50 to 59 years, 60 to 69 years, 70 to 79 years, 80 years and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43935/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Levy Issues (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if Voluntary Health Insurance Healthcare will seek authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland before the end of 2013; the estimated financial cost to the State of same; if the company’s reinsurance agreement with Berkshire Hathaway will have any impact on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43939/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Report (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the key elements of Vision for Change that have been implemented; the key elements that have yet to be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43989/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 477 community mental positions promised in the past two budgets that have been filled; if he will provide in tabular form the number of these positions filled and the numbers unfilled in each local health area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43990/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 230. To ask the Minister for Health if he is going to appoint a consultant specialist in the North East to reduce the delay in consultation appointments for assessment for acute minimum surgery for ear, nose and throat operations; if it is correct that patients may wait for up to four years to see a consultant specialist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44077/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Sexual Offences (16 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 124. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total numbers of children who made disclosures of sexual abuse in 2010, 2011 and 2012; in each year, if she will indicate the number of these children that attended an initial assessment of needs interview and subsequently went on to access therapeutic services from the Health Service Executive; the number of children making...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (16 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 132. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for orthodontic treatment by county; the waiting time by county including the current longest waiting time for a patient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43724/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (16 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 133. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical staff that has been lost to the orthodontic system in recent years; and where these staff were posted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43725/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (16 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 137. To ask the Minister for Health the number of first time medical cards that were applied for in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the number of those cards that were awarded; and from those applications the number that were awarded general practitioner only cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43735/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (16 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 138. To ask the Minister for Health of the 1,863,062 medical card holders and the 124,361 GP only cards, if these figures include those who are currently seeking a review or who are in the appeals process; if so will he provide the relevant figures for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43738/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (16 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 168. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of medical card reviews that have been carried out on a monthly basis for 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the number of medical cards that have been withdrawn as a result of the review; the number of cards that have been replaced by a general practitioner only card; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister should have put it in the Department of Health in that case.