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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: With all of those allegations, zero fines have been imposed on this group because HIQA does not have the power to do it. HIQA told us that this is one of the areas it would like reviewed. Is the Minister of State aware of the Emily case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: What home was involved? Was it a nursing home? Does he know in what year that occurred?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Is the Minister of State aware of the Leas Cross case? Does he know when it was?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Yes. Is he aware of the Brandon case in County Donegal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Is he aware of the Grace case most recently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: After all of the television programmes and the Leas Cross case, which dates back 20 years, the need for adult and safeguarding legislation was called for. The Minister of State came here today and said the Minister will bring a memo on policy. There is no legislation and the same applies to the programme for Government. We do not even have the heads of a Bill, which is not good enough. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: No fines have been imposed on this group.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: After all of the abuse and neglect, families will feel let down because there have been no fines - zero.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: HIQA does not have the power to issue fines. The Minister of State should listen back to what HIQA said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: When?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Again, to save the Minister of State the effort of rustling through his papers, it is 198.

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: As was said, the first priority should be ensuring people are cared for in the home and in the community. The difficulty is that many older people are waiting for intensive home care packages. In the previous term and the previous programme for Government, the then Government promised a statutory home care scheme. It never the light of day. I am not sure when that will ever come. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 1. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to ensure that Health Service Executive and National Treatment Purchase Fund spending on insourcing initiatives is transparent and accountable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34742/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she has taken to improve governance and accountability at Children's Health Ireland, CHI; if she will publish the unpublished review of a department at CHI at Crumlin; the steps she has taken to address issues highlighted in that report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34743/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (25 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 192. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 29 February 2024, and given the continuing prevalence of the large, colourful and attention-grabbing tobacco price lists used in shops to highlight certain tobacco products, if she will examine providing for such amendment in the Bill to further regulate nicotine inhaling products, which is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the number and details of reports, by report type, procured by Children’s Health Ireland from a company (details supplied) in the period 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and the substance or subject area to which the reports relate. [34003/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 881. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by each public hospital, including Section 38 organisations where it must be requested, on private ambulances in each of the years 2015 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [34328/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 902. To ask the Minister for Health when she expects to receive and to publish the review of urgent and emergency care in the midwest; the resources and WTE staff committed to the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34378/25]