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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: We are not dealing with the issue of sex education yet. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Is this in connection with contraception or sex education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I am trying to be helpful to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome our delegates. I assume they have all seen the "RTÉ Investigates" programme. The first question that must be asked is this whether the delegates surprised when they saw the programme or whether they were shocked, or both? Did they have any inkling that this type of activity and practice was being carried out? The witnesses have referred to the fact that it was limited....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: That €90 million has to be made up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: It was €44 million but now they have to find another €46 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: How do they find that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Mr. Woods is speaking about people being admitted through emergency departments. There are many other ways through which patients enter hospitals. Is there incentivisation in that regard? Consultant X who has two patients, one private and the other public, in a hospital that needs funds could opt to treat the private patient ahead of the public patient because the hospital would be paid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: For the record, I asked questions as opposed to making statements.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Ms Cowan references an important point. If one looks at the recruitment of consultants, we cannot fill posts. There is a market. If a person's skill is urgently required and there is a scarce pool of that skill, then that person has an advantage over the HSE or the system since that person is required and can put on pressure by not complying with contracts because he or she knows that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I have an observation. There are 680,000 people on one waiting list or another. They are primarily public patients. That is out of a population of approximately 2.7 million people. For those people who are going through inordinate delays and in many cases suffering, the information in the "Prime Time" programme would exacerbate their difficulties. They would feel like second-class...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the delegates and thank them for the presentations. Representatives of the HSE and the Department attended a previous session this morning. This emanated from an RTÉ programme. I assume the witnesses have seen it and are aware of its contents. It is not just about that as the matter has been discussed at this committee for some time. It concerns stretched budgets and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: For clarity, I was not suggesting necessarily that the C contract was the solution to the problem. I was asking whether the IHCA saw it as a solution to the problem of recruitment or retention. On top of that, everyone around the table accepts that the vast majority of consultants work exceptionally long hours and go above and beyond the call of duty. However, if that is the case, I assume...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: They will move from a B contract which allows for a certain amount of treatment of private patients in public hospitals to off-site private treatment. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Is there an increased number of applications from consultants at Mr. Woods's committee to move from a B contract to a C contract? If so, is it not an immediate undermining of the long-term goal and strategy of the Sláintecare report which is aimed primarily at disentangling public and private care? I do not know for how long a C contract is awarded. If we are changing B contracts to C...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Is there a health and safety issue? For example, pilots are only allowed to fly for so long, while truck drivers are only allowed to drive for so long. If someone is a consultant with a C contract who is obligated to work 33 hours a week, can he or she work as many hours as he or she likes outside of that number or is there an obligation to turn up half awake? Are there health and safety...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 148. To ask the Minister for Health if Vimizim will be sanctioned for persons (details supplied) immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53262/17]

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: How many people will benefit from that measure?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (12 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if first aid training will become compulsory for all physically capable teachers and SNAs (details supplied) through Government funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52846/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (12 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 289. To ask the Minister for Health if the four-month target for persons with scoliosis for 2017 has been discontinued and does not appear in the programme for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52800/17]