Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher has urged the Government to act swiftly to ensure that patients with Hepatitis C get the urgent treatment they need. “It has been reported that the 2017 Budget allocation for Hepatitis C patients has already been used up leaving more than 600 registered patients, whose treatment has not started, […]

Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher has hit out at the HSE for its persistent failure to provide up to date figures on the number of people waiting for critical diagnostic scans in hospitals nationwide. “Every year for the past three years I have sought this information and every year the HSE has avoided providing […]

Just one of the 35 primary care centres promised by then Health Minister James Reilly in July 2012 is operational according to information provided to Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Billy Kelleher. Deputy Kelleher said, “When the projects were announced as part of domestic infrastructure stimulus we were told that ‘procurement of the health projects will […]

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Heath, Billy Kelleher has warned that worse is to come unless Minister Harris deals with the root causes of the escalating trolley crisis Deputy Kelleher was commenting after data released by the INMO shows that the crisis permeating the health system that leaves hundreds of people every day lying on trolleys […]

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Health, Billy Kelleher has said that the failure of the HSE to ensure that at least 10,000 Irish young people, but potentially more, receive orthodontic treatment despite them already waiting longer than 12 months is a scandal, and one which underlines the lack of capacity in the health system. Deputy Kelleher […]