Results 16,661-16,680 of 26,766 for speaker:David Cullinane

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 291. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen AMUs and ASUs; his further plans to improve linkages with general practitioners in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17885/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 292. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of rehabilitative care beds in the public system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17886/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 293. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase homecare supports and intensive homecare packages; the additional funding that will be made available for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17887/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 294. To ask the Minister for Health his views on clinical governance in private nursing homes; his plans for reform in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17888/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 295. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prepare for the winter flu season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17889/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 296. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to invest further in a flu-vaccination programme in 2020; the extent of the additional funding; his views on a total population flu-vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17890/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the shortage of consultants by speciality (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17891/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 298. To ask the Minister for Health the decrease in community service activity that has occurred as a consequence of Covid-19; his plans to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17892/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the backlog in screening by the four national screening programmes in tabular form; his plans to clear the backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17893/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 300. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to further increase hospital step-down capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17894/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 301. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to leverage the use of private health facilities and capacity to help deliver a public catch up programme to deal with missed care as a consequence of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17895/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 302. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancers which have gone undetected due to the suspension of screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17896/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his plans to return all four national screening programmes to pre-Covid-19 levels; the time frame to achieving same; the additional resources that will be made available to achieving pre-Covid-19 levels of screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17897/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 304. To ask the Minister for Health when full access to disability day services will be restored; his views on whether additional funding and capacity will be needed to achieve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17898/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 305. To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the two-metre rule on acute hospital capacity; the actual loss of capacity, by hospital and by hospital group in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17899/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the capacity for testing and tracing for Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17900/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the additional healthcare workforce capacity brought into the public system since February 2020 to deal with Covid-19 by category (details supplied), by staff group, hospital and hospital group; the full-year cost of retaining the work force capacity in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17901/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: Yes, there are two speakers. I am sharing time with Deputy Mark Ward. We will take ten minutes and five minutes. I will use four minutes to put questions and will give the Minister four minutes to respond. I will then use two minutes for a supplementary question. I am all in favour of political solidarity in dealing with this crisis in healthcare and with Covid-19 care. That...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: I will allow the Minister to continue.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: We are under time pressure and I do not want to take from my colleague's time. We do not need the Minister to come into the Chamber and agree with us for the sake of agreeing with us. It is okay to agree with us but we need action. The two big challenges facing this country are the economic challenge and the health challenge. We have an economic plan but not a health plan. Today, nurses,...