Results 1-20 of 958 for long speaker:David Cullinane

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

David Cullinane: ...to satisfies the concerns that I had and I thank the Minister for that. We did have very lengthy discussion on it but I am happy to support what has been inserted by this amendment. It does go a long way to alleviate concerns I had in this area.

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: ...a higher risk of poor oral dental care. Their teeth and condition could deteriorate. Even for those who get the screening and it is captured in the public system, we know they are waiting far too long for access to orthodontic care and treatment. It is a clear failure on the part of the Government where 200,000 children are deemed eligible but only half of them are receiving the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome our witnesses. I will start with the working hours for junior doctors. We have been talking about this issue for a long time. As we know, there was a report and it made recommendations but it is still a big issue. I know it is in the opening statement but will the witnesses clarify again that doctors working beyond the 48 hours is illegal in that it breaches the Act? The first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: That is a failure of the political system. Doctors cannot be blamed for that. We are asking them to work long hours in contravention of their rights. There is a question of moral injury and pressure being put on doctors to come in to work additional hours because we do not have capacity and, now, because of the recruitment embargo. I will come to that in a minute. It is self-evident...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: There is just so much we could say about this but it is well covered in the opening statement from the IMO representatives. We have been dealing with this issue for far too long. There needs to be political will to deliver on it because we cannot just continue to ask junior doctors to work the hours they are working, with all the risks entailed for them and their patients. I would imagine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: ...frustrating for me, although I would say it is even more frustrating for people who live in the mid-west, when Government representatives ask what needs to be done when it has been clear for a long time. I want to ask one question on this. A problem has been reported to me but I am not sure how prevalent it is. Are the delegates aware of instances in which patients have had their entire...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

David Cullinane: ...support. HIQA published comprehensive proposals on improving its governing legislation and enforcement powers in 2013 and more recently in 2017 and 2021. The authority has been calling for these for a long time and it has taken far too long for the Government to act on them. HIQA has flagged that existing definitions fall short of legal clarity and that there are no specific clinical...

Health (Waiting Lists) Bill 2024: First Stage (25 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: ...NTPF does not publish the waiting lists in many other areas of healthcare, including community care, diagnostics and mental health. Not only do we not publish those lists, but we do not know how long people are waiting in many other parts of the healthcare system or how many are on the lists because we do not compile them and there is no data. At an Oireachtas health committee session a...

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]

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: ...my first question about improvements, she said there are examples of GPs who have done the research in this area and are responding very well but she also said is not the case across all GPs. Has Long Covid Advocacy Ireland had any engagement with the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP?

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

David Cullinane: ...an update from it on what training it has provided and pass that on to the witnesses to see if more can be done because that is an important area. My last question concerns the recognition of long Covid as a long-term illness. Yesterday, the Government announced the temporary special scheme for paid leave for healthcare workers would be extended beyond March by a couple of months. The...

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

David Cullinane: Go raibh maith agat. The witnesses are all very welcome. They heard the testimony from the first session. The witnesses in earlier are people who are sufferers of long Covid and advocate for patients. Their experience has been slightly, or I would say radically, different from some of what I have heard said here, which is a bit alarming. I just want to start with the last session we...

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

David Cullinane: We need to be very clear on this point. Witnesses have come before us today who have had symptoms for much longer than a year. We all have people we engage with regularly, constituents, who would say their symptoms have existed for a long time. To be clear, then, there are patients who would have symptoms for years.

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: ...capacity problems in our hospitals. We need a Minister for Health who will stand up for people and stand up for cancer patients, children with scoliosis and those patients who are waiting far too long in emergency departments. After 14 years of three failed Ministers for Health, we need a change of direction. Sinn Féin has a plan to deliver better health services. I, for one,...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: ...Health on 10th April, 2024, by the Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Cancer Society, Ms Averil Power, that: — "Inadequate Government funding and the impact of Covid-19 on cancer diagnosis and treatment means that we are no longer confident that will be the case. In fact, we are concerned that Ireland's cancer outcomes may have stagnated or even disimproved since the strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 1601. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his engagement with trade unions regarding the cessation of the special scheme for healthcare workers with long-Covid, including any meetings, correspondence received, and correspondence issued; if his representatives have attended any related Labour Court sessions or meetings with other Departments regarding same; if he will make any further...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (9 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 1671. To ask the Minister for Health the number of National Ambulance Service staff who were absent due to long-term sick leave or suspension during the period 2019-2024 who were still in receipt of payment as per their roster; the number of staff in receipt of such payments for three or more years and five or more years; and the value of overpayments over the past 15 years. [15511/24]