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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: Reference was made to concerns about people whose insurers had paid health providers for treatment or care they had not received. With whom, other than their insurer, should such persons make contact in this regard? We have all received anecdotal evidence of this happening. I have made representations to health insurance companies on behalf of people who were dissatisfied with their...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: I am not suggesting a new agency should be created. We have all made representations to insurers which have paid health care providers for treatments people did not receive while in hospital. When one contacts the insurance companies on behalf of constituents, one is told it is not an issue of concern, but it is if it results in premiums increasing.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: I do not know. What I do know is that it is cumbersome for a person who has just come out of hospital and receives a letter from his or her insurance company saying the bill for his or her care and treatment has been paid to have to address concerns in this regard.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: Members will hold different opinions on how to fund our health services and provide equality of access based on need as opposed to financial means. We could be accused of having establishing a two-tier health system, in that there is private health insurance and a publicly funded system. Until we reach the point that the Minister is aiming for, though, funding health services will pose a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Alcohol Advertising (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether sponsorship of sporting events by alcoholic drinks companies should be subject to the same regulations as tobacco sponsorship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52651/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Deaths in Hospitals (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which his Department was first notified of the death of a person (details supplied) and the date on which he was first notified; the persons who notified him and the person who notified his Department; the action if any that was taken by the Health Service Executive prior to him or his Department being notified; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Deaths in Hospitals (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which his Department was first notified of the death of a person (details supplied) and the date on which he was first notified;the person who notified him and the person who notified his Department; the action, if any, that was taken by the Health Service Executive prior to he or his Department being notified; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information regarding the exceptions funding available to hospitals to allow them carry out cochlear implants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52206/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will define a virtual bed and a virtual chair as is used for billing of private patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52338/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health what constitutes day care services in relation to hospital procedures; the minimum standard of care to qualify as a day procedure; if there is a defined location as to where procedures should be carried out to qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52339/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a hip replacement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52366/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health when he will bring the package of supports for the narcolepsy sufferers arising from the H1N1 vaccine before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52439/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector Funding (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland in counties Cork and Kerry in 2013 for the provision of a family support worker; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52506/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if he will list all the areas in the country in which the seven nights of respite care allowing carer's to take a break has been reduced to six nights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52551/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if the seven nights of respite care allowing carer's to take a break will be reintroduced in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52552/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health when posts sanctioned in April 2012 in the area of footcare/podiatry will be filled at the following hospitals, Sligo General Hospital, Cavan General Hospital, Our Lady's Drogheda, Mullingar Regional Hospital, St. Luke's Kilkenny, Kerry General Hospital, Wexford General Hospital, Waterford Regional Hospital, Beaumont and The Mater; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if the budget for a residential service (details supplied) in County Cork will be cut again in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52747/12]

Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: There was an extraordinary announcement the other day from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in reply to a parliamentary question regarding a potential Supplementary Estimate for the health area before the end of the year. There have been denials since last June that there would be any form of Supplementary Estimate in any Department, but we have highlighted a potential budget...

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: That is a ridiculous comparison.

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: The Government has obligations and duties as well. The HSE can look after itself in terms of its own inquiry. Quite clearly, however, the family of Savita are not going to co-operate with a HSE investigation so we are going to have open conflict. Huge difficulties will be placed on this family in trying to get to the truth of what happened to Savita in Galway. We do not want to raise...