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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to improve governance and accountability at Children's Health Ireland, CHI; if she will publish the unpublished review of a department at CHI at Crumlin; the steps she has taken to address issues highlighted in that report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34743/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 1. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to ensure that Health Service Executive and National Treatment Purchase Fund spending on insourcing initiatives is transparent and accountable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34742/25]

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: As was said, the first priority should be ensuring people are cared for in the home and in the community. The difficulty is that many older people are waiting for intensive home care packages. In the previous term and the previous programme for Government, the then Government promised a statutory home care scheme. It never the light of day. I am not sure when that will ever come. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: I too have been contacted by the Waterford-Wexford ETB. The issue seems to relate to the contract training programme for apprenticeships. My understanding is that there was a bid process previously, known as a funding allocation request, FAR, to the then Department of Education, based on the number of apprenticeships an ETB would fund and they would get the funding on that basis....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: The Minister has acknowledged that a funding pressure has been identified so we know there is an issue. The question then is how it will be resolved. I welcome that the Minister said no class or apprenticeship will be either suspended or cancelled. I have been told by the Waterford-Wexford ETB that many of the phase 2 classes for July have not been called, which could affect up to 500...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: I have lost count of the number of times I have raised the need for funding for Waterford Airport in the House. In fact, I have raised this several times with the Tánaiste – almost a dozen at this point. I have also raised it several times with the Taoiseach and the relevant Minister. Despite all the personal statements of support I have received, more of which I have no doubt...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Well, now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: People are not buying any of that bluster.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: The high energy has fizzled out. Gone.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: We know that, and you are not doing it. It is just spin, spin, spin.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: At a time when rents are at record levels the Tánaiste's Government has come up with a new solution: to hike them up even further. Its proposal to effectively remove rent controls from new tenancies signals disaster for renters, especially young people, students and their families and anyone who moves to a new rental home. The reality of the Government's plan was always clear, but now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Again the Tánaiste's response is all spin, bluster and blaming everybody else-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: -----but his Government for the fact it is bringing in policies that will drive up the cost of rent for many people. Students will not buy his line of argument. They will see through his spin. Many students are going to see their rent and the cost of their accommodation increase. They know it. They know the Government does not have their backs. The Tánaiste talks about a balance,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: It is more money for them and more profit for them, which is always the case under Fine Gael, which represents a cosseted, privileged class, from my perspective.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Ordinary people who have to pay increased costs on groceries, insurance and now rent are the ones who are paying the price. The Tánaiste should stand up once and for all. He should not be blaming Sinn Féin for something we did not do and take responsibility for his actions. The Central Bank made it clear today this will hurt those same people. Take responsibility for it, stop...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: More spin, more bluster.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: I have never found it so difficult to prepare for a session of any committee. I have been in the Oireachtas since 2011. The reason I found it so difficult is the full breadth of crises and scandals in CHI. I say to Ms Nugent that it is almost impossible in this session for us to give justice to the families who feel let down. We had the Boston review. We had the HIQA review into the use...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Who referred it to An Garda Síochána?