Results 1-20 of 238 for going forward speaker:David Cullinane

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

David Cullinane: Sometimes you have to own your own failures. I am looking at the countermotion from the Government. Not only does the Government not own its own failures, but in a breathtaking and very arrogant and deliberate way, it actually misrepresents what has been said by all those healthcare professionals who have come out very strongly with regard to the lack of funding for the national cancer...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: ...to reflect the changing nature of General Practice and the need to expand multi-disciplinary Primary Care Teams; and — pharmacies need to be supported to take pressure away from busy General Practice surgeries; and calls on the Government to: — establish a multi-disciplinary Working Group on the Development of Primary Care, with relevant stakeholder professions to guide...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I have a grá for carers - I imagine everybody in this House does - because of the work they do. A number of weeks ago I was asked to visit the home of a person who was being cared for and there was an issue that they were asking me to assist with. The carer was present in the house. What struck me was that the carer was an older lady who was looking after her husband, and she had...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

David Cullinane: .... It is a huge undertaking but it is also, as we know, life-saving and life-changing. What we are doing in this Bill is obviously really important and I commend the Minister on bringing it forward. I will make a number of quick points in the sole contribution that I will make. First of all, I thank the Minister for all of the work that has been done and, indeed, all of his...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: ...all of those issues I am raising around inflation, increased demand, the levels of ELS were presented by the Department and the Minister for Health. I am sure the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, is not going to tell me that none of that was done, no data was provided and no evidence was provided for any of the assertions made by the Department. If that was the case maybe the Minister might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: .... I will make this point. We are facing into a year in 2024 where the head of the HSE has directly said that the health service is not adequately funded. We know all of that and do not need to go back over all of that ground. However, it strikes me as incredible and unbelievable that the Secretary General in the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform would not have...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — that the Government's mismanagement of the health budget has led to a disastrous embargo on recruitment into frontline posts; and — the memorandums sent by the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Service Executive (HSE), which directed a severe escalation in the recruitment embargo across the health service, and which...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: ...: “, or by any other manner and in any such system as may be prescribed by the Minister in accordance with subsection (6),”. I am not sure if the Minister read the pre-legislative report the committee forwarded to him following its deliberations. One of the recommendations from the committee was that "a clear, practical and effective system of recording prior warnings be...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: ...to anybody who is looking at what is happening in our health service and for the budget next year that the health service is underfunded and it will have dire consequences for patients. If the Government does not provide enough money for the health service to stand still, then the health service will go backwards. The Government, at best, is trying to pretend it has provided enough money...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

David Cullinane: ...opening statement today that the first he and his Department became aware of this was in November 2022, if I am reading the statement right. He travelled to the US. Did he know this scandal was going to break before he travelled? Did he make any effort to ensure the wider group of families and patient advocacy organisations were kept in the loop and informed as the situation developed?...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

David Cullinane: 547. To ask the Minister for Health if spinal surgeries will continue to be carried out in Tallaght University Hospital going forward; how many surgeons are currently undertaking spinal fusions and spinal surgery in the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32020/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

David Cullinane: ...cancelled. That is true of outpatient appointments and hospital procedures, some of them cancer procedures. All of this is happening in 21st-century Ireland. Despite all of the boasting put forward by the Government in its countermotion, that is the harsh reality for far too many patients. Our motion sets out alternatives which the Government should take on board. As another Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ...that is not delivering at pace. Unless we deal with that and unless we are asking serious questions of ourselves at the top of the HSE about why it is taking so long to get it done, we are not going to get the public confidence we need. When Mr. Gloster meets hospital managers, they will ask to see the colour of the money, where the beds they looked for are, where the surgical theatre...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: ...and the HSE and all those who were involved in drafting what was in the end very complex legislation. It was quite difficult towards the end to follow all the amendments to amendments we had to go through, but the fact that we were able to admit that we had not gone far enough and then keep going until we got it right is a victory for all of us and certainly a victory for the 221+ group....

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: It is important as well for that information to go out. This will not just be for CervicalCheck; it will be for all cancer screening services. I welcome the Minister's commitment to work with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and to keep us informed on what the audit will look like. I also welcome his commitment that the 221+ group will be consulted on that element of it as well....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: There was a good article in last week's Sunday Independenton the Conroy case. The Conroy family went public. It was an important case. The family stated that they had the means to go all the way to the discovery phase when other families did not have that opportunity. In 2017, an email was sent from the Department to the Chief State Solicitor's officer about the case. It reads: ... we...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: ...disability services who were charged so-called voluntary contributions. It includes potentially tens of thousands more families who were forced to fork out for private nursing home care because the Government of the day had refused to put in place any scheme to cover their costs. Fianna Fáil Ministers for health, including the current Tánaiste, Deputy Martin, denied any...

Public Dental Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I commend the Regional Group on bringing forward the motion. I have been raising similar issues with the Minister for some time, as have many other Deputies in the House, which he acknowledged. The starting point is the waiting lists, which paint their own picture. There are 13,000 children and adults on waiting lists for dental and oral surgery in the public system and a further 13,000 on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: ...point on immunocompromised people. For many of them, March 2020 is still their lived reality. We need to look at a combination of therapeutic tools in order that we can support them. There are ongoing issues in the context of antiviral medications, medicines and so on. This is important because while the rest of us can get back to some level of normality, that is not the case for many...