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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

David Cullinane: But why does Dr. Goldman think it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

David Cullinane: I suppose my question is about the practices of one consultant or more systemic problems arising from those technical issues. That is the key.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

David Cullinane: That they were able to trace back to a consultant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

David Cullinane: I thank Dr. Goldman.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 692. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that he has agreed to limit the ability of the HSE to assign patients to GP GMS lists; the date on which this policy commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42737/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 693. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in full, the details of the new GMS GP deal agreed over the summer of 2023; and the full extent of changes made to the GMS contract as a result of this deal, in tabular form. [42740/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome Ms Fitzgerald and her team. I thank HIQA first for the work it does and I thank all of its team. It is very important that we have strong regulation because that ensures we have quality and safe care. I hold HIQA in high regard in the context of the work it does, which often receives criticism, but I recognise the value of that regulatory work. My first question is on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Is HIQA on or represented on the emergency department task force?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Just to follow up on that point, we have regular meetings with the officials from the Department of Health and the HSE who are establishing the regional health areas. The purpose of those areas is to better integrate acute, primary and community care to ensure that we do not have silos and that where we have blockages in communities which have an impact on hospitals, that, hopefully, we will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Has HIQA been asked formally to feed in its outputs from the reports into the regional health area, RHA, process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: My other questions relate to health technology assessments. They are a really useful part of HIQA's work. We all value those data because they are the gold dust. Clinicians can argue all day long but once the data are put in front of them, that is it, it is the end of the discussion. That is why it is so important. We met the chair of HIQA yesterday in private session. I mentioned that...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Budget 2024 demonstrates, from my perspective, how the Government has thrown in the towel on health. This budget lacks ambition and vision. More than that, it lacks the funding that is necessary to properly fund our health services. The Minister may be aware that over the past 24 hours there has been a perception that he has been thrown under the bus by the Government because of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason Revenue Commissioners are changing their approach to reckoning general medical services income being attributed to partnerships or employers, meaning that any such GMS income will need to be declared as income by the individual GMS list holder in their tax return from January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44077/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (10 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 528. To ask the Minister for Health his views on legislating for folic acid fortification of certain staple food products to aid the prevention of certain brain and spinal conditions and neural tube defects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43774/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had any engagement with the Minister for Finance or the Revenue Commissioners regarding plans to prohibit GMS income being mandated to partnerships or employers, meaning that any GMS income will need to be declared as income by the individual GMS list holder in their tax return from January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome the representatives of the various groups that provide essential services to people with disabilities who are in the Public Gallery. This is the first motion we have tabled since the budget. We picked the area of disabilities because it is so important. It has moved from the Department of Health to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth but it is...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: The one-off funding.