Results 21,181-21,200 of 26,795 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 May 2022)
David Cullinane: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the status of diagnostic waiting lists by hospital for the latest available date, in tabular form; the comparison with figures at the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25520/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 May 2022)
David Cullinane: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median, and maximum waiting time across National Treatment Purchase Fund-reported waiting lists for April 2022 that were published on 13 May 2022, by speciality and hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25521/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (19 May 2022)
David Cullinane: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the extent and sub-heads of funding which will be transferred from the Department of Health to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth following the transfer of functions to the latter Minister under the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 and other instruments, in tabular form in each of the years 2020-2025; and if he...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 May 2022)
David Cullinane: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged over 75 years of age who are on acute hospital waiting lists by speciality by hospital in April 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25523/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: I thank the Chairman. We have heard much clinical opinion on this issue, so I wish to very quickly stick with this issue of "clinically appropriate" and, if I can, ask the question again because I am slightly confused. Mr. Menton said there was no engagement between the Minister, the HSE and St. Vincent's Healthcare Group on an addendum, possibly a removal or a definition of the term...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: But Mr. Menton accepts that those phrases are peppered across the constitution and the lease-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: -----and if there was to be any removal or any definition inserted, or indeed any addendum, it would require the consent of all parties-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: But this is going to the Cabinet tomorrow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: So, is it possible that it could be done before it goes to the Cabinet tomorrow?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: We have dealt with the clinical part. This is something that Mr. Menton said was inserted by the Minister at the behest of the HSE, for all of the reasons they gave. I do not need to go over those again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: We are talking now about the potential of either a definition, a removal, or an addendum to what are legal contracts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: Or it remains a letter of comfort.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: My point is that up to now, as Mr. Menton sits here today, he has had no communication from the Minister that there may be an ask, on their behalf, to the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group that they would accept either the removal of the definition or an addendum.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: Okay. Can I come to the ownership of the land? In his opening statement, Mr. Menton said that St. Vincent's Healthcare Group owns the land, which is true. Is it correct to say that the group owns the freehold?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: Mr. Menton said in his opening statement, and I have no reason to dispute this at all, that the land was transferred to the group. Mr. Menton said: "The April 2022 transfer of the RSC's SVHG shareholding to SV Holdings ... was the last formal step in the reaching the Board's objective of becoming a truly secular organisation". Mr. Menton also said that there were no preconditions in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: I am accepting that this is the case and this is what Mr. Menton said it was. We will take that at face value. Were there any other preconditions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: Non-religious.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: Were any of those conditions shared with the Minister and the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: Would it have had a copy of, or had sight of, all of the correspondence from the religious order and the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group or St. Vincent's Holdings in relation to the religious order removing themselves completely from it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
David Cullinane: There is no other correspondence.