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Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I do not seek to interrupt. We have been here for an hour and a quarter.

Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I do not seek to interrupt on a regular basis.

Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister is filibustering now.

Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: He should be speaking about universal health insurance.

Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Why pay for it, so?

Other Questions: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: In the context of the national clinical care programmes, we all agree consultants are an integral part of the delivery of health care. I do not know of a specific case, but the Minister said there were continuing negotiations regarding the implementation of the Labour Court and LRC recommendations. Generally, is the Minister confident there has been a positive buy-in by consultants with...

Other Questions: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Are there not negotiations with the HSE on the implementation of the recommendations?

Other Questions: National Children's Hospital (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The trolleys are being hidden.

Other Questions: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I am sure the Minister has read the programme for Government even if he has not acted to implement it. The programme clearly and unequivocally states that the pay of hospital consultants will be reduced. There were negotiations and flexing of muscles but, in the meantime the Labour Relations Commission and the Labour Court dealt with two issues. What is the position on the agreement that...

Other Questions: Prescription Charges (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thought the Minister was getting rid of those charges.

Other Questions: National Children's Hospital (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I will keep to the question. Everyone welcomes that a decision was finally made on the location of the national children's hospital and that the site designated was at St. James's Hospital. We all remember the debates about the Mater hospital site, the allegations of political interference and all the associated nonsense that was propagated at the time. The concern is that the Minister is...

Other Questions: National Children's Hospital (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Deputy Ó Caoláin referred to the cuts to the budgets of the children's hospitals. Let us consider the budgets for all hospitals. The Minister announced with great fanfare that they had been increased but when one factors in the budget deficits and overdraft facilities, very few hospitals received an increase for 2013. With regard to the amalgamation of the three children's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I am talking about 2013.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Five years ago, the Minister nearly fell over himself about the rise in health insurance when he was on this side of the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister should look it up on YouTube.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The problem is younger people cannot afford private health insurance.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health when he will act to stop the rise in the cost of private health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7880/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister is totally inconsistent when it comes to private health insurance, in what he said two years ago and what he has done since he took office. Families are under huge pressure to pay and retain private health insurance. When the Minister brought forward the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill last November he said that the lower plans would not be rated at the high rating of risk...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: This time two years ago the Minister was apoplectic with rage in this Chamber because the VHI had announced a moderate increase. Since he took office, however, we have had consistent increases, year in year out, month in, month out. The facts do not lie. People are dropping out of health insurance at an alarming rate. The legislation that the Minister passed and brought through this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 Feb 2013)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to revise the criteria for issuing medical cards on the basis of medical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7879/13]