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- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: With all due respect, the House deserves a better reply than that from the Minister, Deputy Quinn.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: It was glib and trite. This is a serious issue. A Minister of State in the party of the Minister, Deputy Quinn, resigned and described what occurred as stroke politics. For him to pass it off glibly and to cast aspersions on my ability to ask questions is not good enough. I have tabled questions, but I have not been given answers. As the leader on the Government benches sitting opposite...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister for Health has conferred financial and commercial gain on individuals with whom he has political ties. There were posters inside someone's house-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: -----and they pulled Christmas crackers with one another at chamber of commerce dinners-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: -----yet the Minister, Deputy Quinn, glibly claims that this is not an issue.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: In the past, the Minister, Deputy Quinn, entered the Chamber looking for heads for lesser issues. He should at least hold the Minister for Health to account instead of blaming me.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I did not. I said financial gain, not impropriety.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Not on a public private partnership, PPP, basis.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, is sitting up there.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: The Gathering Initiatives (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role he has played in preparation for the Gathering in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41797/12]
- Addiction Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this very important debate. I thank the Technical Group for moving this motion, especially Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, who has campaigned on this issue for many years, and her predecessor, the late Tony Gregory. In the early 1980s when I was growing up, even though I was from a rural part of Cork but one which was near the city centre, I was unaware of...
- Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister. The point I am making is that people are entitled to protection against fraudulent use of material which is then put into a person's body. The difficulty is that while the Irish Medicines Board may have oversight within the State, if something happens outside the State, people may have difficulty seeking redress afterwards. In fairness, the Minister and the Department...
- Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive outline of the Bill before us. The Fianna Fáil Party welcomes the introduction of this legislation, the details of which we can go through on Committee Stage. There is an obligation on us at this time to ensure regulation and oversight of health and social care professionals, as provided for in the 2005 Act and in this amending legislation...
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: That is a dangerous place.
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: In wishing the Minister of State, Deputy White, the best of luck, I want to inquire if the instruments assigning power to the Minister of State have been signed. Will the instruments be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas?
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Will it include primary care and will the delegated functions be in the tenure of Minister of State?
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: There was no answer the previous time when Deputy Adams raised it.
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Some of the Taoiseach's Labour Party colleagues did and they are not too happy now.