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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...

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

David Cullinane: There are different models but it is important that this is an inquiry. That is what families are looking for. Obviously, there are different types of inquiries. We have seen in the past where inquiries were promised and they end up being reviews and investigations, very similar to the Nayagam review which is ongoing and still has not been published. This inquiry has to be comprehensive....

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 92. To ask the Minister for Health the handover date for the new children’s hospital; if there is a compliant programme of works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52531/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to reduce premature mortality among men; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if she has ensured a permanent solution to the helicopter emergency medical services crewing model safety concerns raised by paramedics who resigned from the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52534/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 158. To ask the Minister for Health when she will extend public immunisation schemes to provide free RSV and shingles cover; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52530/25]

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Carers do invaluable work and each and every one of us, in our constituency offices, deals with family carers almost on a daily basis, certainly on a weekly basis. I visited one family in Waterford last week. It was a woman who was looking after her father. She was actually sick herself. When I got to the house, she was physically lifting her father, who is much heavier than her, out of a...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I have a lot to get through in the eight minutes and I will start with insourcing. I have read both of the opening statements and listened to what the Minister and Mr. Gloster have said. From Mr. Gloster's opening statement, am I right that what is essentially being said is that control environments are being strengthened, in other words stricter controls around the use of insourcing, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: That is what I am asking, just for the purposes of clarity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Yes, just bear with me just and I will come to the Minister. It is important for us to have clarity, because we have all been lobbied by different consultants and different hospitals. I have spoken to the Minister on it as well in regarding commentary that waiting lists are going up in some hospitals because insourcing has ceased completely. However to put that to one side, I think it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: It is still the policy objective of June of next year but it may well change. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: No, I accept that. That is clear, so thanks for that. I want to ask Mr. Tierney about the national children's hospital, because we had some discussion last week on the elective hospitals and I do not know if I will have time to come back to them. We were told that October of this year would be the final completion date and the handover would be done. Obviously, that is not going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: What is phase 2?