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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (4 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 579. To ask the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47964/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (4 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 580. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide details of the current staffing cohort in the NMBI Registration Department broken down into IE section, EU section, Non-EU section and numbers of ancillary staff supporting the overall registration department to include numbers of education assessors, consultants, and external staff providers (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (4 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 581. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide further information regarding the NMBI's summer series events held in June 2022 in UCC, TUS Athlone Campus, St Angela's College Sligo and ATU Letterkenny campus (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47966/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to address staff shortages of radiation therapists; if there are plans to review recruitment and retention policies regarding radiation therapists, including staffing levels and service capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (4 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an up-to-date list of approved home support providers across all counties in tabular form; the level of home service supports provided directly by the HSE, separate to those provided by third-party providers on behalf of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (4 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 651. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to approved home support providers by the HSE in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48268/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the financial supports that are available to parents of children with vision impairments who require strong prescription glasses; if these supports vary depending on CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48462/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: The family of an eight-year-old girl, Brianna, was left devastated when her surgery for scoliosis was cancelled for the second time. This transcends politics. We need to fix this problem. This is about decency and right and wrong. That young girl left the hospital not with her surgery completed but in a wheelchair. She was in tears. We were left with images of young girl crying her eyes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (29 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47816/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: Before this budget and for many years now, we have had a crisis in healthcare. Year in and year out, winter after winter, the health service is in crisis management mode. After this budget the health service will, unfortunately, still be in crisis. Waiting lists will continue to spiral out of control. There are now more than 910,000 people on hospital waiting lists and a backlog of more...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make adjustments to the social housing supports income limits for Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46879/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: 26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to deliver public and affordable housing in Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46816/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: I welcome our witnesses. I would anticipate that this is Mr. Reid's last meeting with the committee and I will maybe say a few words on that at the end of my contribution. I will start with workforce planning as this is one of the issues we wanted to discuss with Mr. Reid and Mr. Watt. We had a constructive meeting on the regional health areas in the Department of Health some time ago....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: No, not a focus. I am talking about actual funding to increase the training places. I will make it easier for Mr. Watt. The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science breaks graduate positions into the following categories: nursing and midwifery; medicine; therapy and rehabilitation; social work and counselling; pharmacy; diagnostic and treatment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: For the purposes of clarity and given that we will not be able to go through all of the categories, I ask that the Department send on the information. The categories are nursing and midwifery; medicine; therapy and rehabilitation; social work and counselling; pharmacy; diagnostic and treatment technology; dental studies; and health, other. Will the Department set out in a paper for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: I want to get to the issue of GPs if I can but before I do, there are a number of areas where we have real pressure points and difficulties. We have rehearsed some of those over the past year at various meetings of this committee and other committees of the Oireachtas. Children's disability network teams are probably staffed at about 70% at this point. We have a problem with recruiting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: I would like to move on to GPs, so I ask Mr. McCallion to send a detailed note on the areas of mental health, disabilities and home helps, and the additional measures are being taken to fill gaps in those areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: I would like to ask Mr. Watt one question on the policy commitment announced yesterday to extend free GP care, which I support. In our alternative budget we had a similar number to what was announced, but we also provided for additional support to GPs for training and staffing and specialist nurse training positions in general practice, for example, to increase the number of nurses working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: There is €107 million. There are five measures within that and, therefore, I am asking for the costs for extending GP care and additional supports for GPs to employ staff.