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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (24 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, for December 2019, in tabular form; the breakdown by length of wait and by age; the numbers waiting for initial assessment, initial therapy, intervention and follow up therapy and intervention for each specialty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2943/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (24 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 568. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, for December 2018, in tabular form; the breakdown by length of wait and by age; the numbers waiting for initial assessment, initial therapy, intervention and follow up therapy and intervention for each specialty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2944/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (24 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 572. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 417 of 24 February 2022, the bed occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for each quarter in each of the years 2017 to 2022, in tabular form; the national average for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2956/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (24 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 573. To ask the Minister for Health the bed-occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for each day in December 2022 in tabular form; the national average for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2957/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (24 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 574. To ask the Minister for Health the bed-occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for each day in January 2023 in tabular form; the national average for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2958/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (24 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 598. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 521 of 15 November 2022, the length of time 'it takes an assessor to complete an overseas completed application from India and the Philippines; the average length that it takes an assessor paid a daily and half daily rate of €250 and €125; the length of time that it takes the new cohort of assessors who...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 601. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to fill the vacant consultant neurologist post at University Hospital Waterford; and when the selected candidate is expected to be in position. [3183/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (24 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 602. To ask the Minister for Health the current repair times in place for wheelchair users when repairs are required to their wheelchairs in the Waterford city area; the recommended and average timeframe for repairs to take place at present; if an alternative is available should there be a backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3184/23]

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I agree with the Minister's comments about all the staff in CAMHS who do a wonderful job. However, let no Minister or politician hide behind staff in an attempt to avoid or dodge political responsibility for failures in the system. There are obvious capacity failures which have been identified for many years. This is not something that we learned about from this interim report. This...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: 193. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 808 of 5 April 2022, the reason a buy-and-leaseback arrangement is preferred rather than the HSE retaining full ownership of the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3683/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: Okay, so it is substantially recovered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: The figures given are quite stark. There were 48,000 alerts. As Mr. Thompson said, a lot of those are benign. There were 1,200 investigations and 200 of those are significant. Is there any relationship between any of those hacks, even the most recent substantial one, and the fake texts people were getting purporting to be from the HSE about antigen tests and other areas? Is there any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: There is no relationship then between hacks and that information?.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: On the issue of the substantial issue of investment in e-health, Mr. Thompson's opening statement was quite frank regarding where we are at because he rightly said that implementing technology and e-health solutions is a key enabler to the delivery of integrated care. He goes on to say: Our technology and e-health solutions need to be radically overhauled in order to provide the type of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: All of that is in Mr. Thompson's opening statement. I am only quoting what he said. It is not my language, even though I agree with what he has said. He said that our technology and e-health solutions need to be radically overhauled and that our system is being held back because we do not have those integrated IT solutions, electronic patient record systems and all of those systems that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: The former head of digitisation, who as Mr. Thompson knows resigned from the HSE, is on record today - it is timely because it was covered substantially in The Irish Timestoday - stating that the HSE has "no vision" for e-health and efforts to change this are being impeded by "bad actors". Is that something with which Mr. Thompson agrees or has experienced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: Mr. Thompson can give his opinion. I am asking for his opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: I accept that. It is actually one of the areas where we have gotten it right. E-prescription is a big success. I certainly agree with that but we are way behind in all the other areas. On funding, Mr. Thompson spoke earlier about the capital and revenue funding stating that we hit 99% of the spend on what is allocated. Money also comes or is available as well through the recovery and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: How much of it is spent so far? Is there not is a time limit on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: The figure I received in a parliamentary question response was quite lo#; it was only a fraction of the money that was allocated. While it may be the case that in terms of voted expenditure for both current and capital, the HSE hitting 99%, it does not seem to be the case under this resilience fund money that the same target is being reached. I could be wrong. I imagine if Mr. Thompson is...