Results 25,021-25,040 of 26,887 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: I have a number of quick questions for Mr. Gloster. The HSE gave an express commitment to provide primary care services to nursing home providers. Is there anything of substance in the national service plan to back up that commitment? I have been contacted by representatives of Nursing Homes Ireland. They want an assurance that the express commitment will be delivered. Mr. Gloster might...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Gloster for that. I am looking at the forward to the national service plan written by the chairperson of the HSE. He talks about the significant financial challenges over the next 12 months that will impact on the overall budget and what might happen at the year end. He states that there is a likely requirement for a supplementary budget or supplementary funding support. Would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: If I were a betting man, I would say that it will be close to €1 billion. I know the HSE will want to keep it under that amount, but we will wait and see what the figure is. I will not rehearse all of the arguments. We have made them privately and the publicly in the past. The level of funding for existing levels of service is unacceptable and has left us in a position where we...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: This section proposes to exclude rent-a-room relief from the assessment of needs, which I support. I want to make a wider point that I also made in my Second Stage contribution. In my view, there is a need to look at the whole area of medical cards and where we are going from here. There have been some moves, which I recognise and support, in regard to providing additional free GP care for...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: What are the current income thresholds to qualify for a medical card for a single person?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: The Minister of State's officials may have.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: That is €184 a week.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: If somebody was on a living wage would that qualify them under those criteria?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: It is certainly not €184 week. It is probably double that.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: In more ways than one.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: I was supporting you for the leadership but I am taking it back now Bernard.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: I will make a few points on this section. I welcome what this section does. It is important to reiterate what the Bill does and does not do. It does give clarity as to the professions that may administer medical products but it states very clearly that it does not confer new powers or scope of practice on any profession. It is important to make that point. I support what the Bill...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: I will make a point of clarification. I welcome that important move. I assume the Minister would have to set out specifically what medicines a pharmacist potentially could dispense?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: It is a pre-emptive move.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: That is fine.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: The modalities of the extension of prescribing are being worked out.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: It will be a legislative enabler.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: That is okay.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)
David Cullinane: I will support the amendment but I just want to make a point about the substance of the section, which relates to having medicine shortage protocols in place. I have been looking for this for some time and have engaged with the Minister of State on it. If I am correct, the provisions relate to medicinal product shortages by facilitating the implementation of a framework for medicine...