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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1157. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has not published a Performance Profile or Management Data Report since its September 2022 publications; if he can provide both the Performance Profile and Management Data Report for the most recently available quarterly and monthly periods respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27482/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1158. To ask the Minister for Health the number and details of all approved consultant posts by discipline, speciality, and clinical site grouped and totalled by Hospital Group/CHO respectively providing the numbers filled listed on each of the following basis as permanent, temporary, locum or agency basis; the total number of vacant consultant posts (including those vacant and newly created...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Living Wage (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1179. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of delivering a living wage for home care workers; and the estimated cost of providing for mileage expenses. [27690/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1181. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied) has submitted a claim for its employees providing cleaning and support services at University Hospital Waterford, as the employees are unable to get a definitive reply from the employer. [27717/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1234. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to establish if a vaccine compensation scheme will be established in view of the urgent recommendations made in the Expert Group Report to Review the Law of Torts and the Current Systems for the Management of Clinical Negligence Claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28089/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: One of the big promises of Sláintecare is that we would, as best we can, decouple private care and activity from the public space and public care. That encompasses an awful lot, and part of the problem that we have in the public system is the huge amount of outsourcing that happens. We can look at agency staff, management consultancy and all of that area. In primary care especially,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: How many salaried GPs have we hired in the last five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: No, how many have we hired in the last five years? Or ten years even?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: That is what I am saying, so we are at ground zero. My question is how do we get from ground zero to something more substantial, where we actually have contracts in place? We know all of these things take time. We spoke earlier about urgency, and the need to do things better and smarter. I am trying to tease out where we are at with it. What Mr. Watt said is nobody is against it, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: That is something that obviously cannot be done next week, next month, or even next year, could it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: I understand that from a policy perspective, the Government has to make a decision that it is going to do it. I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: What might help is if Mr. Watt gave this committee a briefing note on who exactly in the Department and the HSE is looking at this, what meetings have taken place on it, what groundwork has been done, what concepts are out there generally, and if there are any timeframes as to when we might move in that direction. Would that be something that the committee could be furnished with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: Okay. On a related issue, we are talking here about trying to decouple private activity from public care, and making sure that public patients have access to care. Maybe the head of the HSE, Mr. Gloster, might be able to take this one. We are seeing, at the moment, some private nursing homes saying that they may not take fair deal patients. There is a briefing for Oireachtas Members today...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: I do not think the Taoiseach has been briefed. This is will come back to haunt the Government.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of hours, per discipline, required by the caseload in respect to children with disabilities, including neurodivergent children, under care or awaiting diagnosis from primary care in CHO 4. [29956/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (21 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the regulation of athletic therapists with CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29954/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-term equivalent tracheotomy nurses in paediatric orthopaedics in Cork University Hospital; and the number of tracheotomy nurses available in CUH. [29955/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (21 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the average response time for an ambulance from each base in County Sligo in 2022 and for the first four months of 2023, in tabular form. [29957/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (21 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a home support waiting list for funding and for a carer in CHO 6, in tabular form. [29958/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (21 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who presented at the emergency department at Mercy University Hospital in the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29959/23]