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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Will Mr. Keeley respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Does it include a greater role for the NAS in Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: This is one of the issues identified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I was not trying to catch anybody out. We all want the best outcome for the people of Dublin, whatever that is. We need to get that resolution as quickly as possible. I commend all the DFB's staff for the excellent work that is being done.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (21 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 638. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 339 and 340 of 19 January 2023, the average length of time a patient waited before leaving an emergency department, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8456/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Clever politics? The Tánaiste is trivialising a serious issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I think humility is needed over there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Medicinal Products (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: There is no doubt that global supply chains have had an impact on the availability of certain medications, which has resulted in medications not being available to the extent we would have wanted in some areas. There are things we can do. There are other reasons for it as well but there are things we can do. Other countries have serious shortages protocols where pharmacists can substitute...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 94. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish an implementation plan for the disability capacity review; when he intends to transfer functions for specialist disability services to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7557/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: We kind of touched on this earlier. There are two aspects to this question. The first is about the transfer of the functions for special disability services from the Department of Health to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - that is a mouthful - and the second relates to the resourcing of the disability capacity review. I ask the Minister of State to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: The disability capacity review set out the need for €750 million of investment over ten years. The problem is that two years on, there is still no implementation plan and certainly still no funding plan. As the Minister of State will recognise, we need to support complete decongregation of people with intellectual disabilities into more appropriate facilities, which is part of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I recognise that additional funding has been made available for disability services over the last number of years. Unfortunately, a lot of the additional funding - we had the same debate in the area of mental health - is eaten up by existing levels of service, which means that it does not provide additional capacity. I accept that additional capacity has been put in place, but it is nowhere...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Home Care Packages (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I want to see the statutory home care scheme put in place as quickly as possible. That is one of the things we must do to reduce pressure on emergency departments and hospitals, as the Minister of State knows. In addition to the issues she identified, such as regulation and other measures that need to be put in place to make this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Home Care Packages (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: What we do not want is to provide a statutory scheme where there is an entitlement but people cannot access it. Capacity, therefore, is going to be the biggest issue and that means more staff and resourcing of both public and private providers to deliver the service.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Why are the other hospitals not doing it?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 85. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish a multi-annual capacity and wait time reduction plan to tackle overcrowding, cancellations, extreme patient experience times in emergency departments and hospital waiting lists; if he will include measures to expand primary and community care in such a plan to aid admission avoidance and rapid discharge; and if he will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: This question is on hospital overcrowding and waiting lists. For some time I have been asking for the publication of a multi-annual capacity and waiting list reduction plan. We need to tackle overcrowding in hospitals, cancellations and extreme patient wait times in accident and emergency departments. The figures for December, November and October were particularly high and I will get to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Short-term waiting lists were never going to work and I have said for some time that winter plans are simply window dressing. They were also never going to work and the winter plan failed spectacularly this year. The Minister’s short-term waiting list plan for the year gone promised to take 132,000 people off waiting lists but it only took 10,000 people off waiting lists. The target...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: We need more capacity but the problem is that in the budget just gone, apart from beds that were not delivered from the previous budget, there were no additional inpatient beds provided. What additional beds will be put in this year to ensure that next year those hospitals will have the capacity? The reality is that beyond what was previously committed to, none will be added. On...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 83. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place a redress scheme for residents of long-term residential disability services who were wrongfully charged for their care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7552/23]