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Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Exactly.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: The very fact that we are now looking at an amendment which might take some time to be crafted is a vindication of what we have been saying, which is that we need to go through this legislation properly and thoroughly and get it right. I welcome the fact that there has been movement on this issue. This makes sense because it places a legal obligation on the clinician to inform a woman who...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: On a point of order, given the Minister has committed we would adjourn at 9.20 p.m., it would be better were the Minister to adjourn it now and were we to come back in January. We have an agreement on how an amendment might look. There is disagreement on the anonymised system. We will continue to have discussions on that. We have not reached agreement and we still hold hope there will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a multi-annual capacity plan and waiting list strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61487/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: This question relates to healthcare waiting lists. At various points during a meeting of the health committee, I asked about the total number of people on waiting lists. I am unsure as to whether that information can be provided in the format I want. I received some information yesterday, but it did not include people awaiting diagnostic scans or planned procedures. When will we see the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I acknowledge that there has been a reduction in the number of long waiters, which is important, but the Minister will accept that the overall waiting lists are still too high. For some time, I have called for the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, to publish all waiting lists. Currently, it only publishes acute hospital waiting lists. For transparency purposes, it would be better if...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: It is important that we welcome the contract and attract more consultants. In tandem with that, though, I have been hearing from consultants for many years that they need more access to hospital equipment, including diagnostic equipment, and surgical theatre capacity. We will ratchet up the number of consultants working in our public system, but many of the current cohort are battling as we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delays in implementing agreed pay rises for healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61488/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: When I submitted this question, many health workers had not received their cost-of-living pay increase under Building Momentum. I very much hope that since submitting the question that there have been positive developments. I look forward to the Minister’s response. It is important that we value public healthcare workers. When pay increases are put in place, they should be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: The Minister will accept that it is unacceptable that many of those healthcare workers will have to wait until after Christmas to receive a payment that was due in October. Many workers in nursing homes and elsewhere have also not received their pandemic bonus payment, albeit they are not public sector workers. This speaks to the issue of the need for an integrated financial management...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: The Minister will accept that a 3% increase is modest. It is welcome and deserved by workers but we are in the throes of a cost-of-living crisis in which inflation is running high. For many workers, any pay increases is just allowing them to stand still to meet all the rising costs and so on. A priority for all of us with an interest in healthcare, in addition to all the other things we...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: That is my point, I am not confusing anything. That is the figure I came to a second ago, the €1.8 billion and not the €1.3 billion. The Minister's official has just said that the €600 million is in the €1.3 billion, which does not make sense to me.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: Here is what I see. I see the €1.39 billion figure, I see the Minister say 85% of that is for Covid-19 expenditure and €190 million is from a contingency fund. Then there is a separate discussion about €600 million of additional spend for unforeseen events and I know what it is, it is pensions and all of those demands and so on. Then we talking about cash reserves and...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: I want to take the Minister back to the Supplementary Estimates and to the total figure of €1.39 billion. Our job today is to ensure there is, at the very least, a basic and elementary level of scrutiny, oversight and accountability. For that to happen, we have to be satisfied as to the figures in two respects: what was originally allocated versus what will be allocated now and the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: Yes, that is €697 million. The difference between €697 million and €1.878 billion is €1.18 billion, which is €968 million new Covid-19 measures, funded programmes, and then the €213 million which is made up of the Covid-19 recognition payments and the therapeutics. That is basically it, is it not?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: Yes. The question then is, of that €697 million which was originally allocated, what was it allocated for? I went back over the Estimates and €200 million of that was allocated for the access to care fund and €497 million for Covid-19 programmes. We then need to work through now all of the different Covid-19 programmes and compare and contrast what was originally...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: I was and I heard-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: Some €697 million was budgeted for.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: Why?