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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)

David Cullinane: I want to get to-----

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.

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

David Cullinane: That would not add up because that is €80 million, and the Minister said yesterday there is €10 million for IVF yesterday-----

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

David Cullinane: That does not strike me as adding up to €107 million.

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

David Cullinane: I want this to work. We have had discussions on this ourselves as well. I think everybody wants this to work. I have tabled many parliamentary questions on this over the past year and I have had this out with Mr. Watt directly as well. I could not get costings and I was told that the work was not done on looking at demographic changes and an increase in demand that will happen if GP care...

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

David Cullinane: As it is Mr. Reid's final meeting, I wish him well in his retirement. I know he had a very difficult role to fulfil with Covid-19 over the past number of years, along with the cyberattack and many of the challenges the HSE faced. On my own and my party's behalf, I wish him well and thank him for his work in healthcare.

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

David Cullinane: I will take just two or three minutes and leave it at that. I wanted to come back in to get a sense of what the interaction is between the Department of Health, the HSE and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. We want to be successful on workforce planning. We have got some information from Mr. Watt and Mr. Reid today but it would be important...

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

David Cullinane: I am referring to a formal structure and not ad hocmeetings.

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

David Cullinane: Can I also add to that? Training them is one thing but retaining them is as important. If we consider the numbers of doctors who have emigrated, where visas were given by the Australian government to Irish doctors emigrating last year, compared 2019, it has increased by about 40%. It is about keeping them here. We have junior doctors who are threatening strike action. There is a myriad...

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

David Cullinane: The Minister is on record as saying that he favours the hospital in Galway.

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

David Cullinane: The Deputy might get answers at the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party meeting.