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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (15 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 138. To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding the pricing review of the National Treatment Purchase Fund in respect of the nursing homes support scheme; if the review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16170/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (16 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if advice will be provided in relation to matters raised in correspondence regarding the circumstances of a person (details supplied). [16456/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I welcome Ms Morrogh and Ms Clyne. I thank them for the kind words expressed about our front-line staff across all our healthcare settings. As a committee and as Oireachtas Members we have to look at a health catch-up programme that includes acute care across a range of specialties and we are looking at mental health services and older people. Obviously there are challenges for the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I thank Ms Morrogh. She said earlier that before Covid, we already had untimely access to diagnostics and we now have a backlog, which creates more problems and challenges. The HSE will tell us today that it accepts that there is a developing backlog of cases, including in the four main screening programmes, including cancer. It says that this backlog will now have to be cleared in a Covid...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: If we do not take urgent action, the dire situation is that, unfortunately, people will die of cancer prematurely because of a lack of a diagnosis. Is that the case?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I see that in Ms Morrogh's submission and opening statement she refers to public awareness campaigns to encourage people to get screened and checked, and to have a diagnosis. If the capacity is not there, the screening services are not up and running, and people are contacting the programmes but not hearing back, that will add to their stress. Ms Morrogh is right in saying that we need to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: That is an important point and I accept it. I just want to put a further two questions to Ms Clyne because we are tight on time. There is an awful lot I would like to ask about, but we are confined by the time limits. Ms Clyne mentioned preparation for the winter flu season and what will happen with the added concern of Covid-19. Those concerns relate to vaccinations and how they are...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I welcome all of our witnesses. I will start with Mr. Woods. This afternoon, I commended the Irish Cancer Society and the IMO on what were substantial and helpful briefing documents. I also want to commend the HSE because the document it has sent is helpful and expansive. I want to thank the HSE for that first and foremost. Did Mr. Woods hear the committee's exchanges this morning with...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: Did Mr. Woods read their opening statements or submissions?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: There was a deep frustration coming from both organisations, which I will go through in a moment. It strikes me that at this point there are three strands to healthcare delivery, namely: dealing with Covid-19 care; dealing with non-Covid-19 care, which is all of the modalities of care from acute care to primary care, mental healthcare and community care settings and so on; and the need for a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: My point is that there is a question of how in God's name we will roll out a catch-up programme if we have increased levels of Covid-19 in our acute hospitals, as well as all of the ongoing day-to-day non-Covid-19 care that would have to happen anyway. That brings me to my first question on capacity. The Irish Cancer Society and the IMO, like many other organisations, are calling for...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I am asking about additional capacity beyond that again.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I want to ask about staffing because that is the physical side of the question covered. That depends on what happens and on the extent of what happens so we will have to see the colour of the money in the context of what that means. On staffing, from a combination of Be on Call for Ireland, the return of retired and overseas staff and locum cover, how many additional staff were brought into...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: Will Mr. Woods provide the committee with a breakdown of those posts in categories? How much does that cost? One of the things we know is that we did not have enough capacity in the public system. Now that we have 3,271 additional staff who have come into the system, they need to be maintained insofar as is possible. Those who need to be kept in their positions should be kept on. What...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: It would be great if Mr. Woods could provide that figure. I want to move to screening because this morning the representatives from the Irish Cancer Society were concerned more than critical about the screening services and wanting them to be back up and running. They stated that there were potentially 450 cancers that had possibly gone undetected so far. Would Mr. Woods agree with that figure?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I am sorry, Professor O'Doherty. My question was in relation to a number. The Irish Cancer Society has put out a number of 450. I am asking if the HSE has a figure that was done on analysis.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: Professor O'Doherty does not know from where the Irish Cancer Society got its figure.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: Mr. Woods or Professor O'Doherty might answer this question. The comprehensive briefing document they provided states that in terms of the four screening programmes, it will take time for screening programmes to build up, but is it fair to say that we do not have time? How quickly are we looking at getting those screening programmes up and running?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I want to put on record the deep concern expressed by the Irish Cancer Society and many more advocate groups about the need to get screening up and running. I know Professor O'Doherty accepts that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I want to put the final question to Mr. Woods. It is regarding capital funding. A reply to a parliamentary question on cardiac care in the south east, and this is only one project, so it will now involve every project, states that a capital plan is being reviewed and revised to take account of the impact of Covid-19. Are we now saying that every capital project is being reviewed, that even...