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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 611. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the differing public health standards here in contrast to Northern Ireland, in which a procurement model will purchase quadrivalent winter influenza vaccinations for persons under 65 years of age including persons at risk, pregnant women and health care workers for the 2018 to 2019 flu season; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department is unwilling to adopt a new procurement approach to ensure that persons here are optimally protected from the most potent influenza viruses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12586/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department will not procure a quadrivalent vaccination for the forthcoming winter influenza season in view of evidence that over 50% of hospitalisations from influenza arose from the B strain Yamagata, which will not be included in the trivalent vaccination procured for the 2018 to 2019 influenza season; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 614. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the WHO published recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2018 to 2019 northern hemisphere influenza season, which recommends the strains both quadrivalent and trivalent influenza vaccines should contain; if he will instruct the HSE to follow this guidance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12588/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 615. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the surge in hospitalisations and deaths from influenza this season; his plans to make a provision to prevent the same occurrence during the 2018 to 2019 flu season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12589/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (20 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the occasions on which a pharmaceutical company has successfully sought to increase the price charged to the HSE for a product by more than 20% in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the product involved; the reason given by the company for seeking the price increase; and the overall annual increase in the cost of the drug to the HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (20 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 653. To ask the Minister for Health the location a person (details supplied) will attend to receive continuing care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12807/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this particular issue. It is something that has been debated in this Chamber on numerous occasions. However, we are inextricably on a journey to allow the Irish people to arbitrate finally on Article 40.3.3° and to deliberate on it in the meantime, not only in this House but in broader society. I hope the debate is one that, as so far to date, is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: There is no detail. That is the problem.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste can understand my concerns in view of the convention centre.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (8 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 286. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will publish its operational plans for 2018 for each sector. [10940/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (8 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 287. To ask the Minister for Health when each hospital group will publish its 2018 operational plans [10941/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tender Process (8 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 328. To ask the Minister for Health when e-tendering will be open to those hoping to tender to become HSE providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11082/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 337. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which and the reason the decision was made to allow the continuous glucose monitoring system for diabetes patients under 21 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11152/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 338. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed review of the continuous glucose system will take place; the measures the review would need to find in order to rollout the programme to all diabetic patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11153/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 339. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a date for the approval of the model of care for rheumatic and musculoskeletal disorders from the acute hospital division of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11165/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been such a delay in the model of care for rheumatic and musculoskeletal disorders which was clinically approved by the clinical advisory group of the National Clinical Programme for Rheumatology in July 2016 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11166/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I have. I welcome the witnesses and I thank them for their presentations. The ESRI report indicates that over the next number of years, there will be a dramatic change in the demographics, with the consequences in terms of demands on health services, the need for us to change how we provide health care and with regard to planning. Dr. O'Shea noted we have more people living longer with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Is that screening done by a consultant or can it be done in primary care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I apologise for cutting in ahead of Deputy Bernard J. Durkan. I must leave the meeting in order to be briefed on a Supreme Court decision which has just been announced.