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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 383. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 724 of 8 March 2022, if he will provide an itemised breakdown of the amount spent on computers in 2020; the number and type of computers purchased; the details of each of the computers purchased and associated itemised costs in tabular form; the purpose of each purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 384. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 724 of 8 March 2022, if he will provide an itemised breakdown of the sum spent on maintenance in 2021, in tabular form; the purpose of each purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19001/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 385. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 724 of 8 March 2022, if he will provide an itemised breakdown of the sum spent on other medical equipment in 2020 including the number and types of equipment purchased; the details of the equipment purchased and associated itemised costs in tabular form; the purpose of each purchase; the expected lifespan of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 386. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 724 of 8 March 2022, if he will provide an itemised breakdown of the amount spent on medical and surgical supplies; the number and type of supplies and equipment purchased; the details of each of the purchases and associated itemised costs in tabular form; the purpose of each purchase; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure on vehicles by the National Ambulance Service in each year since 2000, in tabular form; the source of funding for expenditure in each year; the Covid spending in 2020, 2021 and 2022; the number and type of vehicles to which the expenditure refers and the relevant amounts expended; the purpose of each purchase; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vehicles disposed of by the National Ambulance Service in each year since 2000, in tabular form; the reason for each disposal; the revenue generated by each disposal; the cost of each disposal; the number and types of vehicles in each disposal; the reason for each disposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19005/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims submitted by dentists under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years from 2011 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of dentists who submitted less than 50, 50 to 100, 100 to 250, 250 to 500, 500 to 1000 and more than 1000 claims in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 390. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. no. 3 of 31 March 2022, the number of medical graduates who sought an internship in each year since 2011; the expected number in 2022; the number who were successful; the number who completed the internship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who completed their internship with the HSE in each year since 2012; the number which subsequently took up employment with the HSE in each year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19008/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 411. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to PLAB 1 examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19061/22]

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...