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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure a school (details supplied) has sufficient classroom space to accommodate existing and future demand; if she is aware that a new teacher is due to start at the school in September this year and that there is currently no additional classroom available to accommodate this teacher and their class; if she will do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome all of our witnesses. I thank them for the detailed briefing note that they supplied to the committee. I also commend them on the recommendations they have made. I know many of us have engaged with them on an ongoing basis. The asks are very credible and they would add significant value to the health service. I commend the witnesses on that work. They have brought an excellent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I refer to the issue of the chief pharmaceutical officer. Many of us on the committee championed the need for a health and social care professional, who would advocate for that sector, and we saw some movement on that issue. I am not against a chief pharmaceutical officer position being put in place. Is there any resistance to that in the HSE or the Department? We did meet with resistance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Would those protocols have, for example, guidelines that would have a second and a third line of a drug? The process would be highly regulated. Step-by-step guidelines would be available. Lots of protections would be in place as part of the process. That is the whole logic of having a protocol.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Would the IPU see a value in having that officer position in place in advance of a national strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: If that officer position was in place, would that officer have a role in the State's policy on drug reimbursement or drug supply? That is a very cumbersome process, which this committee wants to look at as well. Would Ms Foley envisage the officer having a role in that space?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Okay. I want to move to the minor ailment scheme and to give the IPU most of the remaining time to outline how that would work. I see this as a no-brainer. It is something that I think could happen at pace and speed if the political will was there to make it happen. It should not have to be something that we have to wait for a national strategy to be in place. Obviously a national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I should have mentioned Ms Sheena Mitchell who has done a lot of work in this area as well. I know that the IPU has engaged with her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I am not sure if she is a member of the IPU -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ----- but she has done a lot of work and I want to commend her. Has the IPU engaged with her on the proposals?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Yesterday in this Chamber, the Taoiseach said the existing cath lab in Waterford is "now open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays." He continued: The next step, which we are committed to making happen, is to ensure there is a service from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week and then to build up to a 24-hour service. Previously, we did not have the infrastructure...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I asked about 24-hour services.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I asked whether there has been a policy change.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I asked about 24-7 services.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: There has been no policy change.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: The Minister does not even have to take ten.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Bill. Sinn Féin will support the abolition of any charges. We have long argued for the abolition of such charges we believe fundamentally in a public health service and that public health services should be free at the point of delivery and delivered on the basis of need. We are travelling in the right direction and the new public-only contract for consultants in...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: The Deputy jumped the gun.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: The Deputy should be careful in future not to jump the gun.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Good Deputies.