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- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the VHI's refusal to cover new patients in Mahon Hospital, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29437/12]
- Written Answers — Business Regulation: Business Regulation (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 287: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to update and modernise company law in order that the accounting profession will be obliged to give an accurate account of the financial state of a business in view of the recent collapse of financial companies including banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29598/12]
- Written Answers — Medical Negligence Claims: Medical Negligence Claims (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 605: To ask the Minister for Health the total spend on medico-legal payouts in the Health Service Executive and the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the years 2008 to 2011; the total spend so far in 2012; the projected spend in 2012; the proportion of these payouts spent on lawyers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29204/12]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 593: To ask the Minister for Health the rate of absenteeism in 2011 and to date in 2012 by region; the cost of absenteeism by region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29157/12]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 606: To ask the Minister for Health the level of absenteeism in each of the years 2008 to 2011 broken down by staffing categories; the associated costs of agency staff; the total spend so far in 2012; the projected spend in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29205/12]
- Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 598: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown in each community nursing unit of bed closures in the unit to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29188/12]
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 599: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown by hospital of bed closures, theatre closures and ward closures to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29189/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 603: To ask the Minister for Health the total spend on overtime in the Health Service Executive and the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the years 2008 to 2011 broken down by staffing categories; the total spend so far in 2012 broken down by staffing categories; the projected spend in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29202/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 604: To ask the Minister for Health the total spend on taxis in the Health Service Executive and the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the years 2008 to 2011; the total spend so far in 2012; the projected spend in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29203/12]
- Written Answers — Organ Donation: Organ Donation (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 697: To ask the Minister for Health if he expect at his meeting next week with his fellow EU Ministers of Health that the subject of transposing the EU directive 2010/53 on the Quality and Safety of Organ Donation and Transplantation into national primary legislation will be discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29872/12]
- Written Answers — Organ Donation: Organ Donation (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 698: To ask the Minister for Health if a draft statuary instrument at this late stage is ready and being the first time ever in the history of the State that Ireland will legislate on organ donation or organ transplantation; if he will share the draft instrument with the Oireachtas Health Committee in view of the importance of cross party agreement on such an important topic of...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 699: To ask the Minister for Health if he has made a decision on the proposal by the Irish Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists presented to him in early May which they believe would eliminate the adult waiting list within nine months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29876/12]
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Question 700: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider using funding from the special delivery unit to implement the Irish Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists proposals to reduce the audiology waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29877/12]
- Medicinal Products (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the announcement that Gilenya will be made available to people suffering from multiple sclerosis. Clinical trials and international evidence show the drug can give quality of life to people with the condition. It is an oral-based therapy, which should decrease the cost of its provision by the HSE. There is a broader issue at stake. The National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics...
- Medicinal Products (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the announcement made by the Minister. However, the pharmacoeconomics centre stated recently that â¬45,000 was the threshold. Who decided that it should be reduced to â¬20,000? This rules out a lot of high-tech drugs being made available or which it is recommended should be made available at the very least. This is a fundamental factor in the availability of high-tech and...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Does the Taoiseach remember Roscommon? The Taoiseach was flushed out in respect of that matter.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Yes or no.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: We are receiving letters from parents.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: We are talking about a withdrawal, not a reduction.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The Taoiseach said he would renegotiate. He tells us every day that he is in negotiations.