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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: Can I stop Mr. Fitzgerald there? It is Mr. Fitzgerald at the very top. If the HSE accepts there was a failure in clinical governance and the buck stops with Mr. Fitzgerald, does that mean there was a failure on his part in his role, if there was a clear failure of clinical supervision in this case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: No, I am putting the questions to Mr. Fitzgerald. He is ultimately responsible for clinical supervision. This is my time. We go around the houses but people want to know who is responsible for what. I am putting my questions to Mr. Fitzgerald and asking him to answer those questions. He accepted there was a failure in terms of clinical supervision. He accepted also that, ultimately, if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I know about the report. I think Mr. Fitzgerald knows what my question is. I will put the question again. Des he in his role as chief officer, because that is what he is and these are very senior and very well-paid roles, accept responsibility for any of the failures given that the buck stops with him? It is a very clear, simple question. It cannot be any simpler.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I will put the question in a different way. Is it not his job to make sure there is good, sound clinical supervision within those services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: Okay. We go back to who was in the role previously. This is the problem. We have all these hearings. Nobody takes responsibility for anything. It is always somebody else's fault or somebody else's responsibility. If we have a report that tells us very clearly there were failures in governance, supervision, oversight, clinical practice, administrative processes, then there were clearly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: Can I ask if the whistleblower was asked to take time off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: It would be unfair if he was asked to take time off. We cannot get answers to that question. This is the Oireachtas committee which is looking into these issues. One of the issues which arises out of this saga is the treatment of a whistleblower. It is in the public domain. Many things have been said which may or may not be true. We are here, as Oireachtas Members, to get to the truth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: Can Mr. Fitzgerald give me an answer as to why he will not comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I will make a comment rather than ask a question. When people say there is a lack of a culture of accountability and transparency in the HSE, I look to all of the good staff across the HSE and in our public hospitals and public services who do great work. At the top and at management level, however, there is not a culture of accountability and transparency. It is absolutely unacceptable...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I commend an Teachta Tully on tabling this motion, which gives us an opportunity to discuss this very important issue. The Minister of State would accept that parents of children with disabilities or special needs should not need to battle to get access to an assessment of need or services. In recent days an Teachta Tully and I have met hundreds of parents in person and through Zoom whose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: Okay. Would they support extending plain packaging from tobacco to e-cigarettes?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (8 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 382. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to implement the recommendations made by the Ombudsman for Children to review the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12342/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (8 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 383. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to review the Disability Act 2005 to place a focus on intervention and service provision as well as assessments of needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12343/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 462. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the fifth theatre at Children's Health Ireland, Temple Street Children's University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12319/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 463. To ask the Minister for Health if the 24 additional beds and two additional high dependency unit beds provided for Children's Health Ireland in Budget 2021 are fully staffed and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12320/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (8 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 464. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new Children's Health Ireland MRI and associated staffing, works and leasing arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12321/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (8 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 465. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline further details of a tender (details supplied) valued at €1.5 million which is part of his paediatric orthopaedics plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12323/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline further details of the radiology outsourcing valued at €0.64 million which is part of his paediatric orthopaedics plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12324/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 467. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 24 February 2022, if the waiting list fund funded measures in his paediatric orthopaedic plan were funded from 2021 or 2022 voted expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12325/22]