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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: I know but I am talking about core funding.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: I want to respond to the Minister because it is worse than that. I have the notes here in front of me and I want to repeat some of them back to him. The Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform appeared before the finance committee. He illuminated a bit more maybe on what I would call not just tensions but very stark...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: When Ms McGirr says that, who was it sent to? Who sent the letter from the Department of Health?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: Bernard Gloster's memo.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: Mr. Moloney stated, at the meeting of the finance committee: I have not seen that letter. It may have been passed to the Minister but, to the best of my knowledge, I have not seen it. When he asked further he said, "I do not recall that being discussed with me", as in, that letter.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: Mr. Moloney stated "I have not seen that letter."
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: Hang on a second. No, we have had a very serious issue with the funding of the health service. They go to great lengths in all of their notes to say the sharp differences they have between the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, and the HSE and the Department. The head of the HSE has set out in stark terms what went on in his perspective, sent...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: It was put to Mr. Moloney that health inflation ranged between 10% and 17%.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: Mr. Moloney said, "Absolutely not." My colleague put it to Mr. Moloney that, "Bernard Gloster and Robert Watt both told the Joint Committee on Health" that this was the case and Mr. Moloney replied: "I am not aware of what that is based on." How could Mr. Moloney not be aware of what it was based on? For me, the debate shows me how bizarre all of this is when, again, it was stated that...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: It is utterly bizarre. This probably is the most chaotic way we have ever funded the health service, when you have that carry on with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, and I am not blaming the Department of Health on this. There are financial controls that can be put in place, there are savings that can be made and there can be differences...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: In response to the questions about who got what email and who read it, the Minister made the point that it does not really matter who read it because most of the issues were understood. That goes to the heart of the problem here. It is not as simple as that. Yes, a memo is just a memo and an email is just an email but it was obviously a very substantial email and very stark. I will read a...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: I will read out the notes and the Minister does not have to respond if he does not want to. I will read them.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) David Cullinane: Who sent the memo that came?
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (29 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether appointment-only private falconry exhibitions operating with an appropriate falconry licence which operate on an appointment-only basis and are not open to the public generally are considered to fall within the definition of "zoo" in Council Directive 1999/22/EC of 29 March 1999 relating to the keeping of wild animals...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: It is not a point of order.
- Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: The Irish people, or at least the vast majority of them, will never be led by extreme voices when it comes to immigration because Irish people are fair and welcoming. We have seen that over the course of many years. Properly managed immigration enriches a society. We see this in our hospitals with nurses, doctors, healthcare assistants and specialists right across the health service coming...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: Go raibh maith agat. On what basis is a decision made about how existing levels of service, ELS, are calculated for any Department and what is this made up of, generally?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: The head of the Department of Health, Mr. Robert Watt, appeared before the Joint Committee on Health and said that the existing level of spending, ELS, for 2023 and 2024 was underfunded. We know that for 2023, the health service ran a deficit of approximately €1.5 billion. The cash deficit was approximately €1.1 billion but taking accruals into account, the head of the HSE...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: The Minister can put a spin on the situation but the reality of what is in the briefing notes prepared for him, which I presume he was asked to articulate to the head of the Department of Health and the Minister for Health, paints an entirely different picture. Perhaps the Minister will let me finish my point. It suggests this was not the normal cut and thrust of division that might take...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: Well-----