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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: A senior Minister accused the HSE of "causing further concern" and went on to say that she was not satisfied with the HSE's responses to straightforward, reasonable questions. The Tánaiste said yesterday that the Ministers, Deputies Donnelly and McEntee, and others, "are not satisfied with the HSE’s responses". Is the Minister unhappy with the responses being given by the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: I understand there was a meeting of Oireachtas Members from the region this week and that a paper was presented by the HSE with clear timeframes. The Minister says there are no such timeframes and he has not signed off on any. There are comments from Ministers that they are not satisfied with responses from the HSE. The public watching on and concerned people in Navan will see that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: Regarding the regional health areas, I might ask Mr. Canavan and Ms Crehan-Roche to respond to my question. I am trying to understand how this could work at a local level. I can understand how at a regional level, you have a single management tier, which makes sense. You want to align your CHO services with acute hospitals. For me, it has to be more than an administrative alignment. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: Could Mr. Reid and Mr. Watt work with this committee over the next number of months as they evolve the policy in this area? Mr. Woods will play a leading role in this as well in terms of rolling out the regional health areas. Obviously, I want to get it right. I would imagine that every member of this committee wants to get it right so where there is good practice, we need to build that in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: We should take up the offer that Mr. Watt made earlier of having a workshop on regionalisation with Mr. Woods, his team and the people who will be involved in that. We can look at drilling down into some of these issues. That would be useful, outside of a committee session in which is more difficult to tease out all of the issues. I will ask a few questions to Mr. Reid on waiting lists...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application of a person (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicant’s travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35107/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application of a person (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicant’s travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35108/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 167. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application for a child (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicant’s travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35109/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 168. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicants travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35112/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application for a child (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and applicant’s travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35171/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of passport applications for children (details supplied) given that they have exceeded the target issue date and applicants’ travel dates are imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35106/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the medical card threshold by €100, €200, €300 and €400 per week for persons over and for under 70 years by category in tabular form; the level that this would rise to; the number of additional households which would likely qualify for eligibility; the estimated total cost assuming 100% uptake;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 292. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of expanding full medical card entitlement to 50% and 75% of the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the general practitioner visit threshold by €100, €200, €300 and €400 per week for persons under 70 tears by category in tabular form; the level that this would rise to; the number of additional households which would likely qualify for eligibility; the estimated total cost assuming 100% uptake;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of expanding general practitioner visit card entitlement to 50% and 75% of the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35128/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers in receipt of special leave with pay; the number who have received it for longer than a week or the period of isolation; the number diagnosed with long-Covid, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35255/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: I hear what Mr. Reid is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: Just on that - if they are correct - when we say validation am I right in saying that if it is a figure of 110,000, that is 110,000 people who came off waiting lists, not because they were seen by a consultant or not because they were treated, but simply because there could have been duplication, they no longer require care or they were seen elsewhere in that they might have been referred to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: What if I bring forward an amendment Bill to include community and diagnostics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: We get the figures. It is not that we do not get them. I understand that there is a better system of capturing data for acute hospitals. I agree with Mr. Reid that how it is categorised could be a bit better as well, by the way, even from the HSE's perspective, to show when services are working better as opposed to that overall figure that people can see. It is in everyone's interest that...