Results 1-20 of 21 for tenet speaker:Billy Kelleher

Mental Health Services Funding: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2016)

Billy Kelleher: ...has been handed a very bad card in trying to implement and fund a key commitment in the supply and confidence arrangement between Fianna Fáil and the Government. It is critically important that the central tenet of that supply and confidence agreement is acknowledged and A Vision for Change is implemented in full over the lifetime of the Government. That means providing €35...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (2 Feb 2016)

Billy Kelleher: A cursory glance at the programme for Government and an analysis of it with the benefit of five years of hindsight shows it is a catalogue of failure. The two central tenets of health care delivery in Ireland were to be universal health insurance and free GP care for everybody. There has been an abandonment of the universal health insurance model as was outlined. It appears to have been...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2015)

Billy Kelleher: ...but the position has consistently and rapidly deteriorated. The motion notes that while the April 2015 initiative reduced waiting times for the fair deal and reduced the number of delayed discharges, it has not reduced the overcrowding in emergency departments. That was a key tenet of the proposals brought forward by the emergency department task force. We were told that if we could...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Billy Kelleher: ...health insurance market. More importantly, it helps to ensure people are not penalised as they get older and sicker and therefore have a greater need to draw on health insurance. A central tenet of any modern society is to ensure people are not penalised as they grow old. We should not uphold this tenet because it makes us feel better - we should do so because the people in question...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)

Billy Kelleher: The programme for Government guarantees access to medical care based on need and not on income. That is a central tenet of Government policy in regard to health delivery. Fairness should be at the heart of any policy. The Irish people are very fair when it comes to deciding whether free GP care for all those under six should be funded by taking discretionary medical cards from the oldest...

Restorative Justice (Reparation of Victims) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: ...An Garda Síochána, but as a central role in policing. The structure of the police force means that one must work and be involved in dealing with serious crimes to have better promotional prospects. A central tenet of any good police force involves the concept of community policing. We should, therefore, have an assistant commissioner with responsibility for community policing...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Billy Kelleher: ...front in all its dealings with regard to the Irish people in terms of sovereign debt, bank recapitalisation and retrospective bank recapitalisation. These are the key issues. They are the central tenets on which the Government was elected from this side of the House. We can talk about the past in its entirety, but when Government members were on this side of the House, every morning it...

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: ...were 410 people on trolleys today in our hospitals. I remember in the past when the Minister would be apoplectic with rage and indignation on this side of the House if we had those figures. He said it was a central tenet of his stated policy to eradicate waiting times in emergency departments and to reduce dependency on trolleys in emergency departments for excessive hours. That was the...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: ...was that the abolition of long waiting times on trolleys, how we dealt with emergency medicine and how we provided safe treatments in emergency departments throughout the country would be a central tenet of his policy. Even though, as I accept, there has been a reduction, after three years of the Minister's administration, it is the case that there are escalating trolley counts in...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: .... The Minister for Health said he had not been consulted about this, so he should ask why not. However, we might at least think that the Minister for Finance would be consistent in trying to underpin what is a central tenet of the programme for Government, which is the need for a vibrant private health insurance market to underpin universal health insurance when it is introduced in 2016...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: ...people dropping their health insurance or downgrading their policies. That clearly is not a sustainable position to maintain. Everything he has done in recent times goes contrary to the central tenet of his policy, which is to provide a vibrant, competitive private health insurance market to underpin his universal health insurance aspirations. The Bill undermines all of this. The only...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: ...for primary care, Deputy Alex White, has moved a little, but if the Minister is the last man standing in this area, we have a greater problem than I had thought, because primary care is a central tenet of all policy.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: ...for it. He said the first he heard of it was when the Minister apprised him of the tax implications of the budget. I have no wish to pick a fight with any Minister here, but one of the central tenets of the Government's health policy is universal health insurance. This means we need to have a vigorous, vibrant health insurance market if we want to attract as many people as possible to...

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: ...six or seven years. It must be terrible for parents to watch time slip away and see their child not being able to develop to his or her fullest potential as he or she is entitled to under every basic tenet of decency we advocate in this House when we talk about giving everybody the opportunity to develop their full potential. I commend and endorse the motion. We were very glad to...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Kelleher: ...has represented them in a previous incarnation. There has been no negotiations with the professionals who are expected to work in primary care teams and to lead them. That was to be the central tenet of how we had intended to provide health care in the country in the years ahead. I find it rather startling that while we talk the talk of establishing the teams and having the centres...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)

Billy Kelleher: ...The Government needs to get involved in the real world. I urge the Government, at this late stage, to accept Deputy Michael McGrath's proposal that independent oversight be sacrosanct and the central tenet in any attempt to address the issue of mortgage arrears, which is a huge and damaging problem for families and society. I commend Deputy McGrath's motion to the House.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Billy Kelleher: ...be apoplectic with rage if the previous Minister announced that her top adviser was not in the country on a full-time basis dealing with the serious issue of waiting lists. That issue is a cental tenet of the Minister's policy. We need to get clarity on the amount of time Dr. Connor spends in the country and, more importantly, what the special delivery unit is now charged with in terms...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2012)

Billy Kelleher: ...the public by reneging on the commitments made prior to the general election. When one considers the commitments made in the programme for Government and its view that jobs are the central tenet of its economic recovery programme one must conclude that the action plan is a shallow document which would have had the same effect had it never been published. It is an aspirational text...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2012)

Billy Kelleher: In the foreword the Taoiseach states jobs are the central tenet of Government policy. When one reads through the document, however, one finds that it does not live up to expectations in terms of the commitments made both in the foreword and the programme of Government. We know what is wrong with the country. There is no demand or confidence and credit is not flowing to small and medium...

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Billy Kelleher: .... This is a crisis point and we want to know who is in charge and when legislation will be brought before the Dáil so that we can have a serious debate on the restructuring of the HSE, a central tenet and plank of the Government's commitments prior to the election.