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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)
David Cullinane: 728.To ask the Minister for Health the number of authorised officers currently available for assisted admissions within the health service in Waterford city and county; if he considers this an adequate number; the steps he will take to ensure there is an adequate number of authorised numbers available in Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24901/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)
David Cullinane: 729.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of authorised officers for the purposes of assisted/involuntary admissions under the Mental Health Act 2001 currently within the health service, by county and by CHO, in tabular form. [24902/24]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: Delays will mean it is more costly-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: Give over.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: We are holding you to account.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: How pathetic is that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: That is pathetic.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: Back off would be more like it. That is what the Government wants. This is crazy stuff.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: That was really pathetic.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: You have tried that tack before.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: What are you doing about it?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: We did not ask you to.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
David Cullinane: They have run rings around you.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I just want to make a number of remarks because this is a groundbreaking Bill. We have been through a very lengthy process and I genuinely do not believe that this Bill has been rushed or that we have done anything in haste. We have done our job very diligently. There was a lot of pre-legislative scrutiny. In fact, there was an Oireachtas committee that did a huge amount of work on this...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 52: In page 85, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(c) The giving by a medical practitioner of genuine medical advice.”.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: These amendments provide beyond reasonable doubt that a medical professional will not be criminalised for offering genuine medical advice. There is a difference between amendment No. 51 and amendment No. 52. My amendment No. 52 permits the courts to exercise reasonable discretion in determining this, and I think that is a better course of action. I understand the logic of amendment No. 51...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I know it all.
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: We discussed this earlier, perhaps with officials or the Minister. When concerns were raised, that was the exact advice we got - that the Bill already deals with this. That there is now legal advice that says, hang on a second, we may well need to do something else, means we have to do it. All of those scenarios the Minister pointed out could happen. We always look at worst-case scenarios...
- Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I supported the retrospective parental recognition for the same reasons as the Minister and others did. It was because it was the right thing to do. I also support putting in place a new regime, a new set of regulations and a new process that allow for international surrogacy in a way that no other country has done. We are agreeing here. I have to put my cards on the table and say that we...