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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I am looking for a timeframe. If there is not a timeframe as in "the HSE does not have a timeframe as to when this will be completed", that needs to be said. I know there are complexities in all of these issues in making them happen. I have a number of questions which are similar in their ask. Is there a timeframe that the HSE is working to for achieving the target of removing private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Is there a timeframe on this specific issue that the HSE is working to so that Mr. Reid can tell me that on that date, which is the target that has been set, it will realise the objective of removing private healthcare from public hospitals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: He cannot tell me today-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: He cannot give me a timeframe on that one. Let us move-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Let us move onto the roll-out of free universal GP care. We have got to the point where we might have the six- and seven-year-olds done. There are talks on that at the moment. What is target for realising the objective of universal GP care for all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Mr. Reid can comment because we are being told that he and Mr. Watt, as co-heads of the overall delivery of Sláintecare, are the two key officials that will deliver on Sláintecare. That is what we have been told; that is Mr. Reid's job. One of the key elements of it is universal healthcare. I am not saying it is not complex. Any plan has be underpinned by a target and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: On the targets in Sláintecare for waiting times, it is a maximum ten week waiting time for an outpatient assessment or appointment, 12 weeks for an inpatient or daycase appointment and ten days for an acute diagnostics appointment. What is the timeframe to realise any of those objectives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I will come back to Mr. Woods in a second. Realistically, are we going to meet those targets that were set out in Sláintecare, that is, to meet those targets of ten weeks, 12 weeks and ten days?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: The 2022 target which was set in the Minister's waiting list plan was a maximum waiting time of 18 months by the end this year for an outpatient appointment and 12 weeks for an inpatient daycase. Are we on track to meet that target? Does Mr. Reid believe at the end of this year that target will have been met?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I have one final question and then I will make a brief comment. In regard to recruitment, which I believe is central to realising all of these issues, we had a lengthy discussion the last time Mr. Reid was before us on the commitment to recruit 10,000 staff. There was a comment that we could, as a minimum, recruit 5,500 and maybe more. Has that changed? How close are we to reaching that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I will make a final comment. I will not speak in the second round. We are all committed to Sláintecare and want to see it happen as quickly as possible. Nobody doubts the complexity of many of the requirements to make it happen. We will not remove private healthcare from public hospitals unless we resolve the talks with consultants, yet a chair still has not been appointed and there...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I thank all the Deputies on both sides of the House who spoke in this debate. I finish as I started by stating that I want to see a new national maternity hospital. I want it to be built as quickly as possible and to ensure it is a public hospital in public ownership. It is absolutely breathtaking and amazing to see the lengths to which the Government will go to sell what I see as a bad...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Are you supporting our motion?

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Are you supporting our motion?

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Are you supporting our motion? You never said.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: If the Government is not going to oppose it then it should vote against it. If it is going to support it, then it should implement it. It seems to me that is not what the Government is going to do.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: - in its report entitled "Report of the unannounced monitoring assessment at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin", the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) noted that "the infrastructure of the hospital, despite numerous and ongoing renovations and refurbishments, was not in line with recommended guidelines for...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I will first outline what I want to see arising from this motion, which I understand will not be opposed by the Government. I will get to that in a few moments. I want to see a resourcing of the national maternity strategy. I want to see modern, fit-for-purpose maternity hospitals with modern, fit-for-purpose maternity suites for women right across this State. I want to see it for all...