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Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Of course, I welcome any reduction in the length of time people are awaiting care and I acknowledge the slight drop in that this year, but it is not just about people who are being treated. According to my latest figures, 60,000 patients were taken off the waiting lists through a process of validation. I do not disagree with that - it needs to be done because the waiting lists have to be...

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 75. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his strategy for addressing the collapse of general practice and primary care out-of-hours services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52298/22]

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: We have a crisis in general practice. We have had reports in recent days of GPs and trainees seeking to emigrate. They are seeking to leave this State because they do not feel they will have opportunities here. The Minister will be aware that while I support the extension of free GP care, some concerns have been expressed by representative bodies about the capacity. We know out-of-hours...

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Obviously, I welcome any additional funding that goes into general practice, but I have also engaged with the representative bodies in recent years, in particular in recent weeks and months since the Government's announcement. There are solutions. What GPs say to me is that we need to train more GPs and we need to increase the number of training places. I agree about practice nurses and...

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Saying it and doing it are two different things. Unfortunately, right across the healthcare system we have not seen the ratcheting up of training places that we need. In Sinn Féin's alternative budget I set out what we would have done this year, namely, 1,500 additional graduate and undergraduate positions across all the fields of study and increased GP training. Having a workforce...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 101. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the full roll-out of early intervention in psychosis services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 106. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for electronic health records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52303/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 121. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to publish an action plan for implementation of the Disability Capacity Review recommendations relevant to the specialist services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 137. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the independent review into the radiation therapy profession following agreement at the Workplace Relations Commission last year between an organisation (details supplied) the HSE and the Department of Health; the timeline for completion of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52300/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 141. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for dental services for public patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52301/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Several times over the past couple of months I have had to raise with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health the issue of the pandemic bonus payment. It has still not been paid to many front-line healthcare workers. Many workers who work in nursing homes, some of the carers of whom we spoke earlier who are not HSE staff and staff in section 39 organisations that provide services to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 202. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 4 October 2022, if he will provide rates provided to each CHO; if procedures can be outlined that qualify for access to the fund; and if there are an operational guidelines/protocol in place for the PCERS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52063/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: I welcome the officials. I support this legislation as it makes its way through the Oireachtas. If members can be helpful in speeding up that process, we should be, but we must do our job of pre-legislative scrutiny also, as I am sure the witnesses understand. We received eight submissions and based on my reading of them, they all broadly welcome the heads of the Bill. That is good....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: It would have been better to have had it for this meeting. We will meet in private session later but given that a number of organisations have raised practical concerns about enforcement, it would have been better to have the Garda submission. When we receive it we will have to give it its due attention. In the list of submissions, the one received from the Pro-Life Campaign is currently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: There obviously were concerns. If it was sent to the OPLA, there are concerns that it is potentially defamatory. It is important-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: I understand that but the submission has not been released and if it has not been released, there is a problem. My point is we want to hear from all sides but when any organisation makes a submission it must not be defamatory as otherwise we cannot do our job. I wanted to make that point. I move to the HSE submission. I have a number of points to make because the context is important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: I do not doubt that at all. The point I was making is that we have our job to do, which is to hear from all of those stakeholders. Given that the HSE and others have raised concerns about enforcement, it is important for us in our work to hear directly from An Garda Síochána. I do not doubt it worked very closely with the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Can I interject because this head refers to "communicating in such a way as to deter or dissuade" an individual or a healthcare provider from providing termination and the same in communicating with a person who wishes to avail of termination of pregnancy services. Does that include displaying religious imagery and messages and graphic images of fetuses as was outlined in the HSE submission...