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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Is it also fair to see that most clinical decisions are based on such things as images, scans, bloods, urine samples and spinal taps, all of which are prepared and analysed by medical scientists? They also play a critical role in the roll-out of acute healthcare services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I refer to the recognition Mr. Reid has just given them, which I accept in good faith. They are critical to the roll-out of acute services. The issues they are raising have prevailed for a decade or longer and they have been in and out of the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC. We are being told that the resolution of this issue would cost about €10 million a year. The last time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: The committee obviously needs to agree to it but it would be important for it to write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Health about the need to resolve this issue, and we have said it to the HSE. There needs to be negotiations to bring this to an end because it is going to have a big impact on acute services. Already we are hearing about the possible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I am looking for a timeframe. If there is not a timeframe as in "the HSE does not have a timeframe as to when this will be completed", that needs to be said. I know there are complexities in all of these issues in making them happen. I have a number of questions which are similar in their ask. Is there a timeframe that the HSE is working to for achieving the target of removing private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Is there a timeframe on this specific issue that the HSE is working to so that Mr. Reid can tell me that on that date, which is the target that has been set, it will realise the objective of removing private healthcare from public hospitals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: He cannot tell me today-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: He cannot give me a timeframe on that one. Let us move-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Let us move onto the roll-out of free universal GP care. We have got to the point where we might have the six- and seven-year-olds done. There are talks on that at the moment. What is target for realising the objective of universal GP care for all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Mr. Reid can comment because we are being told that he and Mr. Watt, as co-heads of the overall delivery of Sláintecare, are the two key officials that will deliver on Sláintecare. That is what we have been told; that is Mr. Reid's job. One of the key elements of it is universal healthcare. I am not saying it is not complex. Any plan has be underpinned by a target and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: On the targets in Sláintecare for waiting times, it is a maximum ten week waiting time for an outpatient assessment or appointment, 12 weeks for an inpatient or daycase appointment and ten days for an acute diagnostics appointment. What is the timeframe to realise any of those objectives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I will come back to Mr. Woods in a second. Realistically, are we going to meet those targets that were set out in Sláintecare, that is, to meet those targets of ten weeks, 12 weeks and ten days?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: The 2022 target which was set in the Minister's waiting list plan was a maximum waiting time of 18 months by the end this year for an outpatient appointment and 12 weeks for an inpatient daycase. Are we on track to meet that target? Does Mr. Reid believe at the end of this year that target will have been met?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I have one final question and then I will make a brief comment. In regard to recruitment, which I believe is central to realising all of these issues, we had a lengthy discussion the last time Mr. Reid was before us on the commitment to recruit 10,000 staff. There was a comment that we could, as a minimum, recruit 5,500 and maybe more. Has that changed? How close are we to reaching that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I will make a final comment. I will not speak in the second round. We are all committed to Sláintecare and want to see it happen as quickly as possible. Nobody doubts the complexity of many of the requirements to make it happen. We will not remove private healthcare from public hospitals unless we resolve the talks with consultants, yet a chair still has not been appointed and there...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (31 May 2022)

David Cullinane: 463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to supports for artists with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27546/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (31 May 2022)

David Cullinane: 681. To ask the Minister for Health his intentions regarding the proposed amendments to the international health regulations at the World Health Assembly this year; if the State intends to accept and adopt or oppose amendments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27479/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (31 May 2022)

David Cullinane: 704. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the availability of Evusheld to immunocompromised patients in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27583/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure Programme (31 May 2022)

David Cullinane: 750. To ask the Minister for Health the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 11 of the Stability Programme Update 2022 that is designated for infrastructure to support community healthcare networks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (31 May 2022)

David Cullinane: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing 20 additional dedicated children’s beds for psychiatric care to cease the practice of using beds in adult psychiatric services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27933/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (1 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission for all patients for emergency department admissions broken down for those under 75 and 75+ years of age, for each emergency department, for each statutory HSE and public voluntary hospital by hospital group in May 2022 totalled for each category and group, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...