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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

David Cullinane: Could those difficulties be resolved through improving guidelines as opposed to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I hear that. I just want to make a point because obviously there is political pressure on all of us to act on the report. That is understandable and correct. In my view, the recommendations stand on their own merits. The Government of the day has to make decisions on how to begin to implement the recommendations in the report. The sequencing of it is really important for me. Am I right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I will come back to some of the operational issues. In the remaining time I have, I will pass over to Ms O’Shea. What would she say to the Minister for Health and the Government about those geographical barriers, the operational challenges that exist whereby five years on from the Act coming into being, women still cannot access services in some parts of the country? What are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

David Cullinane: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I wish to speak briefly. I will not take the full five minutes as I know that the Chair is under pressure. I just have two quick questions. The first is a very important point on the research which underpins Ms O’Shea’s report because many of her recommendations are based on the UnPAC study and other elements of research. From her perspective, as the author of the report,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

David Cullinane: She would fully stand over all of the research. She found it fair, inclusive, unbiased, impartial, and so on. On conscientious objection, the potential conflict was asked about earlier with regard to a patient’s right to have access to a service and then conscientious objection arising. Is there a clash between both of those, particularly in circumstances where a conscientious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I thank Ms O’Shea.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (1 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to enable seven-day rostering across the health service; his plans to address the workforce requirements to enable this while achieving safe staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26968/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (1 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: There has been much discussion on the air waves over the last number of weeks about a seven-day rostering service across our health services and, obviously, that is ideally something we would all want to get to. I tabled this question to give the Minister an opportunity to set out his perspective on this. What plans are in place? What talks and negotiations with representative bodies have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (1 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: As I said, it is a laudable objective and one I support. Obviously, there must be dialogue and buy-in from healthcare staff. We need to recruit as many healthcare professionals as we possibly can. Even though additional numbers have come into the health service, the State has not achieved the recruitment targets we set ourselves with regard to the big numbers we need. Obviously,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (1 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: There are a number of options to get where we want to get to. I know that a call has been put out for people voluntarily to take up rosters at weekends. Obviously, that is something people may or may not do. The Minister pointed to Waterford and other hospitals that have done this. The former manager of the hospital in Waterford is now head of community services and is trying to bring the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (1 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: Is that Mr. Gerry O'Dwyer?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (1 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a multi-annual plan to resolve the crisis in emergency departments; when he will publish full details of all elective centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26973/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (1 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: In the first quarter of this year, people waited on average 11.7 hours in emergency departments for access to a bed. Unfortunately, people over the age of 75 waited on average 13.8 hours. For children, the average waiting time was 13.3 hours. We are hearing horror stories, to be frank, every day of every week about older people and children being left to wait even longer than those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (1 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: Like the housing crisis, we debate the trolley crisis time and again in this Chamber. We want to get to a point where we deal with it comprehensively but it seems to be getting worse. As the Minister said, it is now a year-round problem. The figures for the waiting times for those on hospital trolleys, which are presented to us every day of every week by the INMO, are exceptionally high....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (1 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: The patterns in the rest of Europe do not match with what is happening here in all areas. There is no good reason so many people are on trolleys if one hospital can arrive at a position where people are not on trolleys. Waterford is a very busy hospital serving a population of nearly 500,000. It has additional pressures now because of what happened in Wexford. If it can be done in one...

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

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

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

David Cullinane: They have gone up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 May 2023)

David Cullinane: 925. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days for each model 3 and model 4 hospital to date in 2023 that full capacity protocols have been active, in tabular form. [24968/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 May 2023)

David Cullinane: 256. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of his plans to expedite the construction and opening of the proposed additional 1,500 rapid build of hospital beds; the number of construction companies which have provided expressions of interest in tendering for the construction of the capacity in the period proposed; the identity of the sites the Health Service Executive has...