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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (28 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the meeting between the HSE and a company (details supplied) in relation to Respreeza; the ongoing difficulties which has seen deterioration in the health of persons with alpha-1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49908/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (28 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if measures have now been put in place to allow persons with alpha-1 to receive Respreeza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49909/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (28 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 327. To ask the Minister for Health if the application by the Children's hospital group for paediatric interventional radiology service to be developed in existing hospitals prior to the move to the new children's hospital has been successful through the 2018 estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49910/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 363. To ask the Minister for Health if the balance of the capital funding due to the Mercy University Hospital, Cork, will be released in 2018; when this money will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50085/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (23 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which an academy (details supplied) can get recognised in order not to charge VAT on its courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49662/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (23 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 162. To ask the Minister for Health if dental services such as teeth cleaning are available under the medical card scheme. [49795/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 175. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be moved to Beaumont Hospital to have the required surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49825/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if teeth cleaning performed by a dental hygienist as distinct from a dentist is covered under the dental benefit scheme. [49799/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the Minister and Mr. Breslin. The Committee on the Future of Healthcare spent considerable time drafting the Sláintecare report. I appreciate the work done by the Chairman and secretariat in providing support to the committee, members of the committee and the witnesses who appeared before it. The report includes timelines to which we hope the system will adhere, regardless...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Is there a potential conflict of interest between the HSE and the consultants in view of that fact that stretched budgets are now an integral part of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: It there a potential conflict of interest between the HSE overseeing the implementation of the contract and the fact that some of these consultants are doing a lot of private work through the public hospital system, which, in effect, funds the public hospitals through the stretched budgets that are demanded of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister said the responsibility is with the Department to carry out audits if the contracts are not being adhered to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I am not singling out the Minister. It is the system. No one is surprised by what we saw yesterday. However, we are surprised that we did not have the tangible evidence. We have all been raising these issues for years.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the enforcement measures in place with regard to the 80/20 public private split in hospitals; if it is departmental policy to allow individual hospitals to disregard this rule as long as the overall hospital group comes in around the target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49599/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (22 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 171. To ask the Minister for Health when the next HSE performance report will be published. [49600/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pensions (21 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 314. To ask the Minister for Health if a former HSE employee in receipt of a public service pension is entitled to return to work for the HSE through an agency without affecting their pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48720/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 316. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has failed to secure an independent living placement for a person (details supplied) who has been detained in a mental health facility for four years without having a psychiatric condition; when a place will become available; the location of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48726/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the services that can be made available by the HSE to a person (details supplied) in view of the mental health concerns expressed by their general practitioner; if he is satisfied with the level of mental health services available to those under 18 years of age in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48736/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (21 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 320. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive funding for their home care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48737/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (21 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 321. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on spending in respect of the service reform fund; the amount that has been drawn down from this fund to date; the specific services that have received funding from the fund to date; the stated use of the funds drawn down from the fund by each applicable service to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48738/17]