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

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I got the flu vaccine today.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Oct 2018)

Billy Kelleher: ...and compassionate in such cases. This Bill represents a step in the right direction. It is acknowledging something that needs to be acknowledged. There have been previous cases of industrial action by An Garda Síochána. I do not believe the Garda was well served when services were withdrawn, in effect, in the case of the blue flu. Citizens have huge loyalty to the members...

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

Billy Kelleher: .... 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: 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: Vaccination Programme Data (23 Jan 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 362. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE's expenditure on 'flu vaccines for each of the past five years, in tabular form. [2927/18]

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Billy Kelleher: ...is in place other than the pretence of winter-proofing in September and October. Press releases are turned out with claims of winter-proofing and that we are going to be ready for the winter flu and the challenges that are thrown at the health services in January. We know that if we do the same thing over and over again, we will get a consistent result. That is a failure of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (15 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: ...jeopardising patient safety. With the onset of winter, the concern is that this could have profound implications for the ability of our emergency departments to cope in the event of an outbreak of flu or the winter vomiting bug. I do not believe we are prepared to deal with that if it happens, as it probably will.

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Billy Kelleher: ...have a situation where advertisements are being issued for winter readiness and proofing of the health services for winter. One senior hospital manager told me that the only programme in place was the flu vaccine and prayers. The flu vaccine and prayers were how prepared we were for the winter initiative in some of our hospitals. I raised this a number of weeks ago. Will the...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: ...advocacy groups, unions and worker representatives, to ensure that there is a big take-up. It is a critically important component in ensuring that there is herd immunisation in the context of the flu vaccine.

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: ..., which could have a major impact on our health services and on the health of vulnerable people. Professor Sir Malcolm Grant of the NHS recently said that they were preparing for a catastrophic flu strain arriving in the UK that could have huge implications for the delivery of health care. If that is the case, we have to do the same. The national public health emergency team met in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the contingency plans in place for health services to cope with a greater 'flu outbreak than is normally experienced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45546/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaccination Programme: Discussion (11 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: ...fairly quickly. As the Irish Cancer Society has indicated, otherwise we could end up condemning 40 women to certain death. Pandemrix was manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline around 2009 as a swine flu vaccination and there issues arising from it with regard to narcolepsy. It is accepted there were side effects and this is sometimes used by the people who campaign against the human...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Billy Kelleher: ...at the time that it was not all about beds and capacity. He is right, but we subsequently found out that our hospitals are running at 100% on a continual basis. There is no room to deal with winter flu and bug problems or infectious disease problems etc. There is no room in our hospital systems. The Minister for Health knows that as did his predecessor and his predecessor before him....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme Data (21 Jul 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 674. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of acute hospital staff who received seasonal 'flu vaccination in 2015-2016. [24102/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 187. To ask the Minister for Health when he and his office was first informed by the Health Service Executive that its anti-flu vaccine is for a different strain of illness than the one which is currently circulating; if this development was discussed at the most recent meeting of the ED task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3030/15]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Billy Kelleher: ..., arthritis and many other chronic illnesses in the GP surgery, there must be an acknowledgement that extra resources must be made available, because these illnesses are more complex than colds and flu. I am concerned that GPs might refer people to the acute hospital setting because they are under pressure in their surgeries around the country. Could the Minister expand on this? I do...

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Feb 2014)

Billy Kelleher: ...not use such wording lightly from this side of the House. However, it is a fact the health service has huge pressure points. We are informed from time to time that there are seasonal factors, such as flu epidemics, adverse weather and so on, and this can have an impact and can build pressure points into the system, for various reasons. However, there is almost a consistency beginning to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Jan 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 747. To ask the Minister for Health if incidences of hospitalisation arising from reactions to the flu injection are recorded; if so, if he will provide these figures in tabular form for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4036/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Oct 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the preparations he and the Health Service Executive have made to secure adequate supplies of both flu and meningitis vaccines; if he will outline the plan for both campaigns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44574/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)

Billy Kelleher: ...Government policy in regard to what pharmacists are permitted to do. There is undoubtedly an issue in this regard. There was great reluctance, for example, to permit pharmacists to administer the flu vaccine, despite such services being an obvious area of involvement for them. My point is that the Government seems concerned with seeking to limit their role.