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Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (16 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: 1124. To ask the Minister for Health the current cost of the drugs payment scheme; if costings can be made available for the effect of reducing the current maximum payment threshold from €144 per month to €72 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24865/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (16 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: 1125. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue currently being generated from prescription charges; the number of persons who would benefit and the cost of abolishing prescription charges for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24866/16]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care (Resumed): Dr. Stephen Kinsella (14 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: I thank Dr. Kinsella for attending. He made us aware of the paper at a very opportune time for this committee, given what we are studying. I have a few questions and observations. It is a great study and the timing is very important for us. We have a defined period to do this work, but as regards governance structure, Dr. Kinsella has a great deal of analysis of what is going on across...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: eHealth Ireland (14 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: Will that amount be required every year?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: eHealth Ireland (14 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: What happens in year two?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: eHealth Ireland (14 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: Most of the questions I had have been put forward. I am very interested in this paper and presentation. The witnesses have an incredibly difficult job. In a previous life I used to manage large integration IT projects, so I can share their pain at times. Much of the pain is not due to IT. Sometimes it relates to the decision-making and the process. Leaders are very important in projects...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: eHealth Ireland (14 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: I presume the individual identification code and the PPS number correlate with the health number.

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: I listened intently to the debate over the past few hours and wish to make a few points and ask a few questions given the short period of time I have. The Labour Party will, obviously, do the right thing. We will support the motion but we will also put forward our amendment, as has been outlined by my colleagues. We will not take the populist line but will do what is right for the country....

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: I was very taken by the witnesses' commentary on the necessity for this committee to point a direction as regards the future of health care. That is the massive challenge we have. There is a need for us to be realistic about what we can achieve. We will have to set out a framework, give guidance and point in a certain direction as regards a plan for the next ten years or more. There is...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: Will the group document what it feels this to be and send it on to us?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: At some point it would be useful if we could zone in on the cost variation of home care packages versus nursing home stay versus acute stay because apart from the health issue, from a cost point of view the impacts are incredible. The more interventions we can make on the home care package side, effectively, the more funds we will have to go around other areas. The fact that people cannot...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: I have a brief question and we may be able to help Age Action with this. Why is it difficult to get the exact information? Perhaps we should help in that regard.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: Yes, that would complement the work.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: It would complement the work-----

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: 46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency site visits that have been made to County Tipperary in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22539/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: 48. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency site visits made to counties Tipperary, Clare and Limerick in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22540/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Ireland Staff (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: 282. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff employed by Waterways Ireland in 2008; the number of staff currently employed, specifying the number of office-based staff and operational staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23011/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Ireland Staff (20 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: 283. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she considers that the numbers employed by Waterways Ireland are still representative of the 85:15 split in funding; and the measures in place to provide permanent employment in each of the areas where the employment levels have fallen since 2008. [23012/16]