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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: It was 7,000 last year

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (30 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 613. To ask the Minister for Health whether implementing the recommendations of the independent termination of pregnancy review is a priority for him. [18633/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (30 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 623. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will finalise its pay and numbers strategy for 2024. [18754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 624. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to make access to Mehta growth guidance casting for infantile idiopathic scoliosis available for children in the State, whether through access to care in the State or through access to care abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18755/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 734. To ask the Minister for Health the reason public funding of CAR-T immunotherapy for leukaemia patients is limited to under 26 years of age; if consideration has been given to extending the age for funding of treatment option to beyond the age of 26 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19441/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when he will end the health service recruitment embargo; when the HSE will publish its pay and numbers strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19772/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: This question relates to the health service recruitment embargo, which, by the way, is a Government-imposed recruitment embargo given that in budget 2024, the health service simply did not get the funding it needed. Will the Minister end that embargo and publish the HSE pay and numbers strategy?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We have a growing population and demand in healthcare has increased. When we talked a number of times last year about the deficit that existed in healthcare, the Minister and officials in the Department of Health and the HSE cited two reasons for that, namely, health inflation and increases in demand for services, and the Minister rightly said we were not going to turn away patients....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: It is not a coarse measure; it is the wrong measure. It simply is wrong and I think Deputy Donnelly knows that as Minister for Health. We cannot seek to improve services in the healthcare system if a recruitment embargo is in place. The Minister cited the exemptions, which I accept are in place for final-year graduate nurses and hospital consultants, but all the other posts are not exempt....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We are training these people.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit funding to 288 additional acute inpatient beds at University Hospital Limerick, UHL; the timeline for the full implementation of the coroner's recommendations following an inquest (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19773/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: This question relates to the mid-west region and University Hospital Limerick. I will start by recognising the loss of Aoife Johnston. I pass on my heartfelt condolences again to her family and her parents. Aoife was one of many patients whom we know were failed in that hospital. As the Minister knows, her family are grieving. We have a real challenge and a real problem in UHL. What...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: The tragedy of all of this is that most of those beds have come far too late. There is no reason those beds should not have been funded years ago. Everybody knows that when the decision was made to close Ennis and Nenagh emergency departments, additional capacity was needed in Limerick. It was promised that it would be a centre of excellence. It has not been able to perform as that centre...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I am all for reform in that hospital and every other hospital, but I was one of those members, including Deputy Crowe, who attended the briefing for the Oireachtas health committee. We met with the head of the HSE and clinicians, hospital management and healthcare trade unions. All of them, to a man and a woman, told us that the big problem in Limerick is capacity. We need reforms but...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 4. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to achieve a maximum of four months waiting time for paediatric spinal surgeries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19774/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: This question relates to spinal surgeries for children with scoliosis and spina bifida. The Minister will be aware that over the past number of months there has been a number of high-profile reports of children and their families having to take the media. Some of those children have been waiting since as far back as 2020 for their spinal surgeries to be done. The families are pleading for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Despite all of the talk that comes from Government and the Minister regarding record investment, record staff, record capacity and all of that, we have children who are waiting. Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the case of Liam Dennehy, who has been left waiting more than five months for his surgery. Unfortunately, his spinal curvature is going in the wrong direction. I also raised,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: The problem is that for many parents and many children that is not happening. A number of weeks ago I raised the case of Aiveen , a young child with early-onset scoliosis. Her family crowdfunded for her to go to America to get specialist treatment. She got that and is now doing very well. She certainly did not get the support from the HSE. Her family had to depend on the public coming in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 10. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand public dentistry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19778/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome all the witnesses. My first question is for Mr. O'Flynn. We met to discuss some of these issues some time ago. I thank him for that engagement and for his attendance today at the committee. Proper regulation is not a lot for which to ask. In fact, a lot of people would be amazed that we do not have proper regulation of dentistry, including a statutory code of conduct, and that...