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Born Cork January 1968. Educated Sacred Heart College, Carrignavar, Co. Cork. Public Representative. Farmer. First elected 1997.
Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher has said the increase in pressure on hospitals arising from the decision to close the 24-hour Accident and Emergency unit at Roscommon County Hospital is still causing huge concerns in Roscommon, Leitrim and Sligo. Read More | Share
Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Health Billy Kelleher has said the policies being pursued Minister for Health are leading directly to private health insurance price increases. Read More | Share
Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher has warned the Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly, that the Government will be held responsible for a failure to provide the necessary contingency plans to protect frontline services following the retirement of thousands of health service employees. Read More | Share
Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher has called on the Minister for Health Dr. James Reilly to halt a dangerous policy which is continuing to drive health insurance costs upward and beyond the reach of thousands of families. Read More | Share
Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher has called on the Minister for Health to come clean on why medical card holders are being forced to bear high costs after their cards have lapsed or been withdrawn, pending a review of their eligibility. Read More | Share
Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher has said the Minister for Health is in complete denial about the crisis facing the private health insurance market and the impact price increases is going to have on the public hospital system. Read More | Share
Health Minister James Reilly is sitting on a €143 million stealth tax bomb which will hit working families next year. That’s according to Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher TD who said that the Minister’s decision will also incentivise hospitals to keep public patients on waiting lists for longer. Read More | Share
Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher TD has said that moves which increase charges on private patients in public hospitals are “a false economy.” Read More | Share
Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher TD has responded to the massive cuts in the health budget announced today. Read More | Share
Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher has called for expenses due to HSE workers to be paid immediately and has challenged the Health Minister James Reilly to back up his claims that he does not approve of the decision. Read More | Share
Current Spokesperson on Health.
Re-elected in the General Election of 2011.
Former Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, with special responsibility for Trade and Commerce.
Re-elected to Dáil Éireann May 2007. Appointed Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment June 2007.
Member of Joint Committees on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environment and Local Government: Tourism, Sport and Recreation.
Appointed to the Senate 1993.
Fianna Fáil Seanad spokesperson on Social Welfare 1993-97.
Unsuccessful candidate in November 1994 bye-election.
Contested 1992 General Election.
Member IFA and GAA.
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