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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Policy does not build a hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: What builds a hospital is funding, bricks and mortar and the ability to do it. I am going to finish on my opinion, which is the Department does not have the money for it. We know it needs it and that it asked for billions more in capital expenditure but with all the other requirements that are there in terms of regulatory requirements, the maternity hospital and finishing the children's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Would Mr. Gloster have specifically discussed subsuming-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Services (23 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: The Minister of State might be familiar with the phrases "Build it and they will come" and "Show us the money". He stated that it is up to the airport "to demonstrate that sufficient demand and industry commitment [should] exist to facilitate regular scheduled passenger services". That can only be determined when there is a runway. If there is no runway, no airline will come in. At the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Services (23 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: I have lost count of how many times Waterford Airport has been raised over the last number of years in the Dáil Chamber. I have certainly raised it dozens of times. A meeting took place between Government representatives, the Minister for Transport and members of the board of Waterford Airport a number of months ago. There was a lot of frustration in Waterford following that meeting...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: The school transport system is simply not up to standard. As previous speakers said, every year in the first week or second week back after the summer recess we are dealing with the same issues. In fact, all of our constituency offices are inundated in the months of July and August, but particularly August, with parents who are frustrated with the eligibility criteria, the concessionary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 581. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HIQA review of Midwest urgent and emergency care. [49584/25]

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Earlier this year, Deputy Conor McGuinness and I met with parents of children with disabilities from Waterford city and county. At the time, those parents were heartbroken because they had no idea if their child would have an appropriate class place. Many of them were sent on a wild goose chase, as they were told they had to contact schools themselves. In some instances, they had to...

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: I was at an event about mental health a number of years ago where a presentation was given by an expert in the field who works on the ground. The person put up a photograph of a car that was held up, not by four wheels, but by plans and policy documents. She was illustrating the point that policy documents and plans are not in short supply. We have any number of them in mental health and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the potential funding options available to a Waterford school for a project (details supplied). [49017/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 1109. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will ensure that a Montessori operating an inclusive model of education and care (details supplied) is not forced to reduce services due to funding constraints; and that this Montessori is not forced to abandon an inclusive model of care in favour of mainstream or special status which would exclude some of the children...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 1296. To ask the Minister for Health if the expert group on the next suicide reduction strategy will consider the matter of mental health emergency departments or emergency rooms; if the group will consider wider sets of proposals from the public and bereaved families known as Adam's Protocols; if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48687/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 1342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments offered and children seen following the audit into pelvic osteotomies at Children's Health Ireland; whether any surgeries have been determined as unnecessary; whether any effort has been made to determine whether any surgeries were necessary or unnecessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49001/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 1343. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a review (details supplied); the dates on which interim reports were or are due; the timeframe for completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49002/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 1344. To ask the Minister for Health to list all of the handover dates for the new children’s hospital, in chronological order, from the original target date, in tabular form. [49003/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 1346. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if the consultant working in a clinic (details supplied) has retired; if the vacancy has been filled; if children waiting to be seen need to be seen by a consultant; if a vacancy is causing delays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49024/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 2079. To ask the Minister for Health when she will bring proposals to cabinet regarding a vaccine damage scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44605/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 2088. To ask the Minister for Health whether she has considered routine CA-125 testing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44638/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 2089. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the upgrade of the emergency department of Galway university hospital; when the project will move to the next stage; the estimated cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44640/25]