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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 844. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by Mater Misericordiae Hospital on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm, in tabular form. [7316/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 845. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by Mercy University Hospital on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm, in tabular form. [7317/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 846. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by South Infirmary/Victoria University Hospital on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm, in tabular form. [7318/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 847. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by St James’ Hospital on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm, in tabular form. [7319/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 848. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by St Vincent’s University Hospital on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm, in tabular form. [7320/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 849. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by Tallaght University Hospital on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm, in tabular form. [7321/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 850. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by Rotunda Hospital on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm, in tabular form. [7322/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 851. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by National Maternity Hospital on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm, in tabular form. [7323/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 852. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by Coombe Hospital on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm, in tabular form. [7324/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of claims made; the total cost of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6455/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. Watt. I want to speak about the issue of those people with disabilities in section 38 and section 39 organisations. I have discussed this privately with Mr. Watt as well and with the Minister for Health. The issue here is voluntary contributions that were paid in these homes and whether at the time they were recovered with charges under the Act. At the time when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Then, while we do not know exactly how many, we know that several hundred people applied anyway to the scheme. They were refused and then they appealed and the HSE or the Department's appeals officer upheld their assertion that, in fact, the voluntary contributions on their behalf were recoverable. That was the appeals officer's decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Yes, but the Department at that point was taking three cases to the High Court on a point of law and then got advice from senior counsel that, in fact, we could lose those cases. The 512 cases in which people appealed related to three homes, St. Michael's, Cheeverstown House and the Daughters of Charity. They were paid, so €20 million was made available for those 512 applicants who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: What Mr. Watt was saying earlier then is that there may well be analogous residents as well who may be covered, that he does not know the full extent of that, and that a trawl is being done by the Department. In the 2011 memo that went to four senior Ministers at the time, it is very clear. There is no ambiguity in the memo that was sent. It states: “In addition, there are other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Mr. Watt is Secretary General in the Department of Health and he was in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform before he came to the Department of Health. I am sure he would agree that when memos are being prepared for Government and figures like €360 million are put into these, those figures do not fall from the sky but are based on something. They are obviously based on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Mr. Watt said that the information was not there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: But the Department did not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: With respect to Mr. Watt, the Department at the time did not agree with the basis of the claims that were made by St. Michael's, Cheeverstown or the Daughters of Charity but eventually did. The memo here is quite clear, which to read it again, states: "In addition, there are other institutions similar to St. Michael's, Cheeverstown and the Daughters of Charity with residents who would have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I am not sure that that is what the memo was referring to here, which is why we need to get the information from-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: It would be incredible for us to have to accept that only those three homes which lodged an appeal had their appeals upheld, that they hit the jackpot, just happened to be the people who were entitled and that they got paid. The thinking being presented here is that anybody else who was analogous, who did not appeal or apply, were people who were thought of as not entitled to this redress....