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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I know what I am talking about because I have tabled questions on many different occasions and received various responses. Having pencilled then all together, I know what the number means. A substantial number of beds were funded in budget 2021. Some of them have not been delivered, some will be delivered this year and some were delivered last year. That makes up the figure of 1,228....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: To be clear, I want to know how many beds were funded and how many were available for the months of November, December and every day up to January. Can that information be provided to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: Is that information published every day or do we have to go looking for it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I ask that the committee be provided with this information on a daily basis for those days. That would be helpful.

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that a succession of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments made decisions which caused and exacerbated the crisis in our emergency departments (EDs) today, including Fianna Fáil's decision to close thousands of beds in their last term in Government and Fine Gael's refusal to invest in an adequate number of beds over the past...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: The speeches this evening from both the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, were breathtaking. In response to an emergency in our hospitals, the Minister's biggest complaint was that Sinn Féin did not give him a pat on the back for the good work he believes he has done. That was his chief complaint, repeated time and again in his script. The Minister...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: Vótáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. O'Connor and his team and thank them for their work on the Bill. It seems, on the face of it, to amount to a very simple proposition but it is more complex, as we have seen through our hearings with representatives of An Garda Síochána and others. I do not envy the Department in trying to craft a Bill that will both meet constitutional and legal requirements and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: Practically, this will come down to an understanding on the ground of a member of An Garda Síochána whereby it will be clear to him or her where the zone is. That is the important point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I will move on to the issue of warnings because I raised it in previous hearings with the Department, the HSE and An Garda Síochána. One problem we have is that somebody at healthcare facility A is given a warning but a few hours later, he or she is at healthcare facility B and a fresh warning must be given. Mr. O'Connor has expressed an opinion and it is the Department's legal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: Enforcement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: That is the meat of it. That is the important part of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I understand the issues relating to global warnings and the difficulty that may arise and people using some of the reasons given by Ms Mason in court. I accept that fully. As it stands, it is the case that you can move from one facility to the next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: -----there has to be a separate warning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: That is the hope when this proposed legislation is eventually passed. The expectation is that is where we will be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: That is positive.

Public Dental Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I commend the Regional Group on bringing forward the motion. I have been raising similar issues with the Minister for some time, as have many other Deputies in the House, which he acknowledged. The starting point is the waiting lists, which paint their own picture. There are 13,000 children and adults on waiting lists for dental and oral surgery in the public system and a further 13,000 on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (19 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients, State-wide and for each location for December 2022; the average for patients aged under 75 and 75-plus, State-wide and for each location; the number of patients who attended and were admitted below the average; the number waiting longer than the average, in...