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Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I would like clarification on what a settled pragmatic decision or position of the Government might be.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: Is there provision for an opt-out, or perhaps not an opt-out but that a member state could have a derogation to make a decision, as opposed to this being a one-size-fits-all approach across the European Union? If the proposal is to reduce data exclusivity from eight years to six years, albeit with the caveat that Mr. O'Connor has given on the buyback, whatever about where it eventually...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: This is the concern that is being shared by the industry. It states the US will be watching this with regard to anything that makes it more difficult for a company to protect its intellectual property, particularly when there is large investment in high-tech drugs, and we all know how important that is for patients and the industry. I get that there is a balance to be struck. I get all of...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: Would it be possible to get a note on this, given that it will be an important issue and the Parliament will have to make decisions on it? Perhaps a note can be given to members of the committee to inform us as best the Department can on the process so far, what has been proposed and the position of the Government or the Department. Mr. O'Connor said a number of Departments are meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: My question is more that when a cheque is signed for €19 million and the money is handed over for purpose A, how is the spending of that money monitored?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: Perhaps Dr. Henry will be able to answer my next question on the Nayagam review. We are expecting an interim report, which I understand has to do with risk assessment. When is it expected that the interim report will be furnished?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: It will not be before the end of April.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: 1553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on efforts to establish a fees scheme for students resident in the State studying medicine in universities in the North; if this will include graduate entry programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12474/24]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I will come back to the Minister of State. A threshold of €184 week is a very low income threshold bar, which is the point I am making, given it has not been reviewed since 2009. Notwithstanding the over 70s, we are talking about the general population.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I am simply making the point. It is not attacking the Government. I am saying that the political system and all of us have to look at that as the next step to reducing the cost of healthcare.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I assume the proposal came from the Commission, went through a committee and will end up on the floor of the Parliament. Is that the process?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: If the Parliament rolls back on the buybacks, and it is even worse than we could imagine, there is nothing we could do.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the latest update on the Government’s response to the business plan received from Waterford Airport for the development and re-establishment of commercial passenger flight business into Waterford and the south east; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13120/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: First and foremost, I welcome our witnesses and thank them for the work they do to advocate for cancer patients. I will start with Ms Power. Regarding her opening statement, am I correct in thinking that she is saying that, due to what she describes as inadequate funding for the national cancer strategy itself, her organisation is no longer confident that the national cancer strategy will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: It is obviously a very sobering comment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: -----and it jumped out at me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: The current strategy runs from 2017 to 2026. There have been seven budgets in this period. Ms Power said that in two of those cancer was adequately funded, but in five of them it was not. Obviously, that has consequences. If the funding is not there, one cannot improve the services and the outcomes will not come. Regarding budget 2024, how much additional funding was provided for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: Zero.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: I attended a conference on mental health a while back. I was struck by a presentation that was given by the CEO of an organisation involved in mental health, and I think it can relate to many of the national strategies. There was a slide in the presentation which showed a car that was being held up not by wheels, but by policy documents and plans. A large number of plans was holding up the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: Before Professor Kennedy comes in, does Ms Power have an estimation or a figure for those seven years for how much additional funding was there for those two years, and what was the ask for the other five years where no funding was allocated? From her perspective, what was the requirement and then what was the shortfall?