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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals in Tallaght Hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18448/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of maternity hospitals and maternity units which provide surgical termination of pregnancy; the number of surgical terminations of pregnancy carried out in each for each year since 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18580/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: On a point of order, yesterday the Department or the HSE published on its website the business case for the regional health areas and set out three options. The business case was not sent to committee members. I have seen it but to do so someone would have had to have known about it or looked for it. Given that we are here to discuss regional health areas, many committee members will not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: We can check that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: The only problem with that, and I do not want to hold the meeting up, but we have a very short time available. We have an hour and a half in total for the meeting, and we each have six minutes. We cannot spend our six minutes getting clarity on something that should have been sent to us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: I know. Let us move on. I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: Did the Cabinet sign off on option 2?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: We should proceed to our questions now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: May I make a quick point on the secondment? It is an important issue. Mr. Watt has given clarity that the CMO has permanently stepped down from his position and will take up a position in Trinity College Dublin. All present support that. It will be really good for Trinity College and for the State. If he will still be paid by the Department of Health, however, that can be a problem. A...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: The HSE will remain the employer and there will be a strong HSE centre. Is that not correct? The business case goes on to state that HSE centre will provide all corporate functions. Is that correct? It states that "RHAs are divisions within HSE Centre". In other words, HSE centre will provide central procurement, central finance control, central HR functions and ICT support. When the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: We are very short on time. I am genuinely enthusiastic about the establishment of regional health areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: The realignment of healthcare, acute care and primary care is really important but it is not going to work and we are not going to usher in a new level of accountability and change in healthcare by things pretty much staying the way they are. We are going to have a geographical and administrative alignment but the RHAs will not have a board, there is no legal underpinning, the HSE will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: I have a final point, if I may. I can fully understand now why Ms Magahy left her post. From my perspective, the pushback has won and we are not getting the leaner HSE and regional health areas we were promised. That is not a good day for healthcare, accountability, transparency or the delivery of better healthcare. It is really disappointing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: I know Mr. Watt does not, but I am giving my opinion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: It is my characterisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: What Mr. Reid proposed would involve weak RHAs and a strong HSE centre. That is what he proposed. He has always said that. He can give me his opinion and that is fair enough. I am giving my opinion based on what I can see in front of me with my own eyes. There are three options, one of which would set up legal entities, devolve more responsibilities to the regional health areas and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: Mr. Reid has done so, however, by recommending the second option, unless he did not do that. Did he recommend that option?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: Absolutely. Mr. Reid did recommend it. For me, that option is going for a weaker RHA model and a stronger HSE centre, by definition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: The Minister for Health signed off on this plan, as we now know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)
David Cullinane: I would argue the Minister for Health as well-----