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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: That would be helpful. This is quite a contentious issue in my own area of the southeast and Waterford in the context of UHW. The 2021 report states that the data that is there regarding STEMI is only related to the time from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., five days per week, and it states that UHW moved to 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. five days a week. The second session we are having relates to recruitment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It does. I see from what happens in the cardiology department and other areas in UHW that the staff team and management are able to achieve numbers that are not being achieved in other hospitals. They have achieved that with fewer staff and less of a budget. That begs the question; if the numbers and presentations are as high and are increasing and the staff complement is considerably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: Ms Dalton mentioned the position across the Border. The next session relates to recruitment and I am interested in the opinions of our witnesses as clinicians on this. If we ignore the embargo and the challenges it has had for a moment, if there was no restriction and no budget, would we be able to fill all the positions that are there in the field of our witnesses? Is there availability...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: It is because it is not presenting at regional centres and it is more common that a person presents with those kinds of incidents at a general hospital, as opposed to a model 4 hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

John Cummins: I mean no disrespect, but none of us wants to see the witnesses. However, it is good to know that, if we do need to see them, there are more people coming through the pipeline.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: Many Senators in this Chamber are very passionate about the issue of school places for children with additional needs. In my teaching career before I came into this House, I had the opportunity to see how it really works in practice and it works well. My own school had three ASD classes and those students were fully integrated with the wider school population in the teaching of all the main...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: I will focus more on that last conversation and also Mr. Hogan’s opening statement. The issues raised in the submission included capacity constraints and the supply of zoned land. In light of the conversation we had about housing targets – we are well aware of the hierarchy of the MPF down to the RSES and to the local authorities' development plans and we are also acutely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: The other area I spoke about was the metropolitan area strategic plans, MASPs, and how they were designated. Originally they were handed down by the Department and the regional assemblies did not have scope to be able to adjust those. This is a bone of contention for me and rightly so. It is not a parochial issue. It relates to Waterford and how Tramore, which is 8 km out the road, is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: I am not hearing that the regional assemblies do have the ability to be able to make the change and I am not hearing from the witness that she will say that such a common sense change should be made in this instance. In my view, it was an error that it was never included in the first place. Anyone who has any knowledge of Waterford knows that Tramore essentially operates as a suburb of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: Would Ms Walsh support that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: Would the Department support the revision of the Waterford MASP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: I am asking if the Department supports the revision of the Waterford MASP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: In all of the areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: I agree. I will not talk about any specific area but we all know there are areas in the country without sufficient zoned land. Is Mr. Hogan saying for that to happen without following through MPF into RSES, into local development plans, the best case is 12 to 18 months out the other side of the process? Is that fair?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: Which is not real.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: Nobody will repeat it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: No, you do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

John Cummins: I apologise for having to leave shortly. I put on record my thanks to the Chair and the committee secretariat for their work and to everyone who has come in here and engaged with us over the past four and a half years. We members have all worked well together, across all parties and none. I also thank the officials and Ministers who have served in the Department. It certainly has been a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Jan 2025)

John Cummins: 659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes in mainstream primary and secondary schools in each county, for the years 2020 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1978/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (22 Jan 2025)

John Cummins: 1670. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the expansion of State-funded IVF treatment, as announced in budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1974/25]