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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 658. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent staffing composition of the National Ambulance Service at 1 January 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, in tabular form; the level of staff turnover and new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10144/23]

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with my colleagues. I commend the Regional Group for tabling this motion. We tabled a similar motion last night and the response from the Minister, which was a scripted speech on the motion, was nothing short of disgraceful. Rather than accepting the reality of the challenges that paramedics in the NAS and patients face, with lengthening wait times for ambulances as shown...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: This morning, the Irish Examiner reported that up to 6,000 patients in County Waterford and the south east are in a living nightmare due to an extraordinarily long wait for their cancer test results. At the end of last year, there was a backlog of more than 6,000 potentially cancerous tissue samples waiting to be processed in the histology department of University Hospital Waterford. This...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I spoke to hospital management early this morning to be assured that whatever can be done is being done. The manager I spoke to said the serious incident management team has been in place for some weeks. She also said the transfer of samples to other laboratories is not happening at the pace promised and that the hospital has directly asked the two CEOs of the hospital groups, because St....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: The Taoiseach should speak for himself.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: There are plenty of people behind the Taoiseach who would take the job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome our guests. I apologise that I will have to leave after my contribution given a motion on the National Ambulance Service, on which we have to speak as party spokespersons, is to be taken in the House. It is unacceptable that all these years after Sláintecare was created, we are still having discussions about delivery mechanisms, who is accountable for what and governance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I will come in on my second issue, because that is what I wanted to deal with. I have four areas and probably will not get to all of them. Governance and regional health areas was my next topic. I was not part of the original Sláintecare committee, but part of the logic of the regional health areas was to end that siloing whereby primary care was over here, acute care over there,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I will leave Dr. Johnston to come in on population-based budgeting, which is going to be part of the regional health areas and is important. I have a quick query on free GP care, which obviously needs to happen. However, do our guests agree we must get the foundations right? This would mean ensuring we are training more GPs, looking at a new contract for them and also examining...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Have our guests considered directly-hired GPs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: We are waiting for it as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Agreed. I thank Dr. Burke.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: The Taoiseach is losing the argument.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: We are proud of them.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 1 o’clock Last night, RTÉ broadcast an edition of "Prime Time" that dealt with the issue of older people who lost their lives in nursing homes. We heard harrowing accounts from relatives of the residents of a home in Cork who lost their loved ones without seeing them. Mams, dads, husbands and wives died, many of them on their own with nobody to hold their hands, while...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of the backlog in urgent and routine cancer test processing at University Hospital Waterford; the number of tests outstanding; the average length of time it is taking the laboratory to process such tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11258/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 635. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a request for additional resources to tackle a backlog of cancer screening tests at University Hospital Waterford; the number of additional staff required, by grade, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11259/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be extended to a property (details supplied). [11753/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time for driving tests for County Waterford; the number waiting; the reason for the delay; the steps he is taking to address the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11752/23]