Results 26,881-26,896 of 26,896 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: Okay. I am looking at the agency spending. First of all, does Mr. Gloster accept we have a problem here where we have gone from €349 million in 2019 to €734 million in 2024?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster has been very clear, but the problem is it has still gone in the wrong direction. In 2023, it was €647 million and then it increased to €734 million in 2024.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: I suggest we have a lot more to do. The figures are alarming.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: It is, and it is the shame in relation to accountability. I want to come back to the productivity and savings task force that was established. I read all the reports the body has published and nowhere do I see insourcing. How is it that the productivity and savings task force completely missed this issue of insourcing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: I know, but Mr. Gloster said in his opening statement that there were links between productivity and dependency.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: I am not sure if it is the NTPF or Mr. Gloster that would have the answer to this question. It has to do with outpatient clinics in CHI Crumlin over the past number of years. In 2015, a total of 51 were conducted on a Saturday. In 2024, the figure was 1,426. How in God's name could it have gone from 51 to 1,426?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: Insourcing as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: I accept that. If we come back to insourcing----
- Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: I will take all the time. That is great. I commend the Labour Party on tabling this motion.
- Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: Sorry, the Social Democrats. They have given us an opportunity to have this discussion. If you talk to anybody in the real world, the cost of living is one of the biggest issues impacting workers and families. People are paying huge amounts of money on mortgages, rents, childcare and insurance costs. Almost everything is going up. That includes the price of groceries and food. It seems...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: I have raised with the Taoiseach dozens of times the need to fund the runway extension at Waterford Airport. Every time I raise it, he says he is supportive and that it is in the programme for Government but there is deep frustration in Waterford as we watch on and see funding given to Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Kerry and Donegal airports, while Waterford is left behind. Last June I was told...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: It has been six years.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: Six years.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: It was signed off on in 2019.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)
David Cullinane: Six years later, here we are. It is not good enough.