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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Jun 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 920. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will get their wheelchair serviced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26676/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Costs (11 Jun 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 929. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the financial systems in the Health Service Executive do not allow for detailed breakdown of those who received legal fees from 2008 to 2011 in excess of €157 million; if this information will become available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26680/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1022. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that all Health Service Executive homehelp workers are in receipt of written contracts giving them the same statutory rights and conditions as full time workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27698/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (11 Jun 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 988. To ask the Minister for Health the intentions of the Health Service Executive regarding St. Mary's Community Centre, Richmond Hill, Rathmines, Dublin 6; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that its opening time has recently been cut back from seven days a week to four days a week, that the HSE has indicated that it is refusing to recruit new staff for the centre and at present...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (11 Jun 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1001. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that according to the National Cancer Screening Centre website the National Diabetic Retinopathy screening programme commenced in February 2013 and that according to the Health Service Executive's 2008 framework report on diabetic retinopathy, it has been internationally recognised that screening and treatment of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (11 Jun 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1002. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there continues to be geographical inequity of access to medication for severe allergic asthma, with asthma sufferers in the Health Service Executive Cork and Kerry region particularly disadvantaged; if he will create a national funding mechanism for this treatment, as has been done for a number of cancer treatments; and if he will make a...

Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: That is a disgraceful Standing Order.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (30 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 263. To ask the Minister for Health his views on claims made by the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine of an expected significant worsening of the current, very precarious medical staffing levels in emergency departments here, that evidence from around the country currently indicates that staffing deficits will worsen significantly from July 2013 and that it is likely that many...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Deputy Noonan also served on this side of the House as leader of Fine Gael. He actually led that party to destruction.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I do not mind taking lectures on a continual basis. However, when the Minister for Finance-----

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: -----states that we should not have tabled this motion and that we should not be engaging in a debate on it is quite farcical. We were accused of playing politics with the protection of life during pregnancy Bill, with the economy and with the property tax. I recall that Fine Gael opposed the four-year plan introduced prior to the most recent general election with the greatest vigour and...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Ultimately, however, nothing has happened. To return to the substance of this debate, the Minister for Justice and Equality has admitted that what he did in respect of Deputy Wallace was wrong. The Minister displayed a serious lack of judgment. Any individual can display such a lack of judgment. The point now is that he must resolve this matter very quickly in order to ensure that people...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: As already stated, my party tabled some motions in the Seanad last February. This was long before the matter relating to Deputy Wallace and the Pembroke Street episode came to light. The point is that there is major disquiet among rank and file gardaí, who went so far as to table motions of no confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality at their conferences. They stated that...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion. It is incredible that the Fine Gael Party and Labour Party are denying the Fianna Fáil Party the right to pursue its duty of holding the Government to account by tabling motions in Private Members' time. Irrespective of whether we had tabled a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, or a...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: He went to Clonmel to close the barracks and he did the same in Mullingar.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Did he say anything beforehand?

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: That is a town in south Tipperary, Minister.

Order of Business (Resumed) (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Kieran Mulvey was in charge of the negotiations.

Order of Business (Resumed) (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It was Kieran Mulvey who got the deal.

Order of Business (Resumed) (29 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: That was the shortest ever democratic revolution.