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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome all our witnesses. Their main call seems to be for a national vision strategy. They set out the reasons for that, including guiding policymakers and setting out a coherent plan. Representatives from the Irish Cancer Society who were before the committee a number of weeks ago talked about the national cancer strategy. While having a national strategy is very important, their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: I will add one point because we are tight on time. A national strategy is very important and I support Vision Ireland's call for it. Mr. Mullaniff talked about moving some of the services, or maybe putting more of a priority on community care as opposed to having a higher dependence on acute care, which is one of the tenets of Sláintecare that makes perfect sense. We are told the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome the representatives from the Irish Lung Fibrosis Association. I thank them for their advocacy. I know they are regular visitors to Leinster House and have correctly been lobbying all of us in standing up for patients in this area. I am looking at the four main asks in the opening statement. None of them are asks that should not be delivered in my view. I will start with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: Before Ms Cassidy does so, I say to the Chair that this is not rocket science. The first thing we need is the patient registry. Without that, as Ms Cassidy has said, you cannot plan. Whether it is the current or a future Minister for Health or those in the HSE, you need to have the data. In far too many areas of healthcare we are not collecting the data. We do not have registries. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: We can follow up with the HSE on those funding requests, which I am sure we will after this meeting. I would imagine they are not huge amounts of money that are needed.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Events (23 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: I was at the launch of the three locations, Waterford, Limerick and Kerry, at the headquarters of Motorsport Ireland in January of this year. There was a lot of enthusiasm. Many people were in the room, including representatives from chambers of commerce, motorsport enthusiasts and people from different local authorities who were part of the consortium that made the successful bid to host...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Events (23 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: In his response, the Minister of State said that there needs to be sufficient engagement with relevant stakeholders when considering funding events like this. He mentioned local authorities, An Garda Síochána and existing local businesses. One of the leading advocates of the Waterford bid was the CEO of the council. Local councillors and all of the Oireachtas Members were behind...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 670. To ask the Minister for Health the reason reimbursement support for Ozempic® (Semaglutide) is only available to those with eligibility under the general medical services scheme or the long-term illness scheme, and is not available on the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17966/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child psychologists working in County Wexford; if he is aware of a pending staff departure; and if there is a candidate lined up to replace the outgoing clinician. [17175/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: That is one third the number for previous years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: No it did not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: More misinformation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: No we did not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: We provided for €1 billion more, and you know it. That is a terrible answer to people who are having their procedures cancelled.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: You are telling lies about Sinn Féin's budget.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: It is pathetic and it is beneath the Taoiseach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome all of the witnesses. Ms O’Connell mentioned that the previous session the committee had on long Covid took place in October 2022. This is correct. At that meeting, the HSE informed us the knowledge about long Covid was still emerging and evolving, as Ms O’Connell pointed out. The HSE stated that over time the services provided to sufferers would develop and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: I thank Ms Corey and Ms O'Connell. In her opening statement Ms O’Connell said that many of the long Covid clinics remain unstaffed or understaffed. There are staff but there is understaffing in most, if not all, of them. I am looking at the briefing document we got from the HSE, which speaks about the eight post-acute Covid clinics and the six long Covid clinics, and there is one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: With regard to the centre of excellence and the one-stop shop that was promised, Ms O'Connell has said this is not in place. I do not see it mentioned anywhere in the opening statement from the HSE so I assume it does not exist and has not been progressed. What was Ms O'Connell's understanding of what that one-stop shop was meant to do?