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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I agree. I have been saying for some time that, if we want to solve the problems in our emergency departments and acute hospitals, we need to look at the community, step-down, convalescent and rehabilitation beds. I move to a second issue and two related issues. I am seeking information. Page 11 of the document refers to agency savings. No matter how many times I ask this question, I...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: Okay. It says here the savings were made but my understanding is that, for 2021, the spend was in the region of about €500 million. Can we get that briefing note this time? It is reasonable for us to know how much money we are outsourcing. Can I ask for a bit more information as well? I have asked this in parliamentary questions and we never get the answer. We get thrown from...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: Everything, and it can be broken down. It would be great if the Minister could provide me with that. It would be what I would have asked for several times through parliamentary questions and I was not able to get it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: My third question is one on which I asked the clerk for clarity. We had a very lengthy discussion about waiting lists with the Department and the HSE some weeks ago. They were here to discuss waiting lists. I agreed that reducing the length of time people are waiting is the most important thing. I know that has reduced and I acknowledged that. That is great. However, I asked a simple...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: We might not know whether there are people who are on waiting lists who should not be, but there are still waiting lists, so let us just list them all. There may be issues within that whereby people might be on it twice or there might be duplication, but there is a validation process which we know is working and is underway. The Minister's response is not really an answer. I want to know...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I will give the Minister one example, if I can.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: In the absence of that, can we get what the Minister has?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I agree. I thank the Minister of State.
- Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes with concern that: — 12,624 people were admitted to hospital without a bed and left on a trolley or elsewhere in ward corners and corridors in November, the worst November on record for overcrowding according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO); and — on 29th November, the INMO identified that 660 patients were...
- Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: He is right.
- Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: It is about recruitment. Covid did not stop recruitment.
- Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: It has a number of great Teachtaí Dála who have facilitated its success.
- Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: That is down to good management.
- Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: It is transformative.
- Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: I thank all of the speakers, including the Minister and Minister of state, for their contributions. The Minister's contribution was much different from the script we were handed. It was less harsh, which may speak to the Minister's style. That is commendable but I want to address some of the issues raised in the written text, which were much more strident. I am afraid the Minister's...
- Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: I know the Minister did not say it. I am talking about his written speech. In fact, it is quite the reverse. I think the work that University Hospital Waterford management has done is phenomenal and I have said for some time that it is a beacon of hope for other hospitals. We need the same level of management elsewhere. It has not only been the manager, who is really important as the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: 529. To ask the Minister for Health if the consultant psychiatrist post for the south east in CHO 5 has been filled; the basis and tenure on which it has been filled; the length of time that the post was vacant; the number of times that the post was advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61634/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: 560. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 17 November 2022, the number and details of private providers with whom the HSE has service arrangements that are not on the tender framework, in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the total value of payments made to such providers by service type; and if he will make a statement...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (13 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: 561. To ask the Minister for Health the number and details of private providers with whom the HSE have service arrangements who are not on the tender framework for all units in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the total value of payments made to such providers for each service type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61775/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: 248. To ask the Minister for Health the services currently available to those diagnosed with Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder; the way families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62385/22]