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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I will finish by saying, very forcibly, that it is unacceptable that we have a very senior director in the NAS who is unprepared today to say whether he is in receipt of an allowance. That speaks for itself and the people watching these proceedings will draw their own conclusions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I wish to come back to the point that was made about some of those emergency calls taking two hours for a response time. That is obviously very concerning. I put a number of questions to Mr. Healy earlier, but we had limited time and it was difficult to get into the teeth of it. What are the reasons that would be the case and that in some instances people would be waiting two hours in what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: We hear from hospital managers that there are ambulances parked outside hospitals waiting to transfer patients, which they cannot do because the beds are not there, is that a problem? Is it one of the contributing factors as to why there is a longer turnaround?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Does Mr. Healy accept that two-hour wait times are unacceptable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I wish to address the helicopter medical emergency service and issues relating to doctors being on air ambulance services. I have received representations from a number of personnel who work in these areas. There is a concern regarding the HEM service where there is one advanced paramedic, if I am correct, on the helicopter. The people who work in the service and who contacted me say they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Is it not true, and this is information I have been given, that this year there was what was called a "physician onboard study", which recommended there be two advanced life-support practitioners on both helicopters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Is it possible that could change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: In relation to doctors providing pre-hospital care on air ambulances, that is something that was in the public domain as Mr. Healy knows.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I say that because it obviously makes sense to me as layperson that doctors on helicopters can attend very bad accidents. The air ambulance service itself is critically important. We have people who work in that space who tell us it is not fit for purpose. They talk about risk to patients and to themselves. I am conscious Mr. Healy is saying there will be review and we will see what comes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I have one final comment before I go. The reason I stepped out was that I contacted a senior official in the Department of Health to ask if it was reasonable and fair to ask a senior member of the National Ambulance Service if they were in receipt of an allowance. I was told it was. It is not just fair but it is straightforward that if a public servant is in receipt of an allowance it is...

Community Pharmacy Agreement: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I welcome the agreement. The Minister's predecessor admitted a number of years ago that the engagement with the Irish Pharmacy Union was not what it should have been and the State was not making the best use of community pharmacies. A number of years ago, I published a very comprehensive plan that set out a lot of what is in this agreement, and more, in relation to what we could do. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 101. To ask the Minister for Health her intentions regarding the provision of comprehensive endometriosis services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52532/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I do not believe that is the biggest challenge at all. It is a challenge, of course, to get projects ready and obviously they have to go through planning processes and there are other processes as well. I met with senior officials in the Department before the last general election. What they set out to us was an ask of about €13.5 billion up to 2030. What was achieved was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Despite all of the best efforts of people who will work in this space, even if they get them to shovel-ready, I have already outlined and done the maths. I have met with the Department. I know the money simply is not there to do all of these projects. It is a case of who is right or who is wrong when it comes to the funding. I would accept that the Minister wants as much as possible to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: That is for 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., not 24-7.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Part of the problem here is that we have had almost a decade of failure and broken promises, some of which it must be said were political promises, and in more recent times a lack of transparency from Children's Health Ireland. Those very same families the Minister has met, and those parents and advocates she would meet, have been screaming from the rooftops about governance failures at CHI...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 78. To ask the Minister for Health if she is confident that sufficient capital funding has been provided for in the national development plan to deliver elective centres, 3,000 additional acute inpatient beds, digital transformation, and the entirety of health infrastructure commitments made by the Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52529/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Capital funding in health is really important. This capital allocation is one of the most important because it is linked to many of the big projects that are about reform of the health service. It is about more hospital beds and the 3,000 beds that were promised by the Minister's predecessor before the local elections last year. Elective hospitals have to be built, which is really...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 76. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider an independent public inquiry into scandals at Children’s Health Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52528/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: My first question relates to the need for a public inquiry into spinal surgeries for children with scoliosis and spina bifida at CHI. I note the Minister met Harvey Morrison Sherratt's family with the Tánaiste recently and it seems a commitment was given to an inquiry. Will the Minister inform the House as to what form that inquiry will take and what her view of the timeframe will be...