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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: I am asking about acute beds. How many acute beds are there in the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: The number of beds will increase to 14,500.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: That refers to permanent funded beds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: I refer to wait times. The target set in Sláintecare was that access to a hospital consultant should take no more than 12 weeks. Figures recently released by the National Treatment Purchase Fund indicate that the number of people waiting to see a consultant had risen again, to 612,283. The number of people waiting for 12 months or more is 249,959, up from 243,000. Has Covid altered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: I have a question about elective hospitals. The programme for Government commitment did not identify the number of hospitals, but we know Sláintecare supported three elective hospitals in different parts of the country and there is a high-level team examining it. What timeframe are we facing to get to a point where we can start to see concrete proposals? Business plans are being...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with Deputy Kerrane. The crisis in health at the moment is a battle on a number of different fronts: dealing with Covid care, non-Covid care and all the missed care across a whole range of specialties. This has resulted in 613,000 patients today in this State waiting to see a hospital consultant and 850,000 patients waiting either to see a consultant or for an inpatient...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (15 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 262. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant posts in the health service; the number of vacant approved posts; the number of recommended consultant posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30694/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 560. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a definition of a dance and exercise class as outlined in the plan for living with Covid-19; the reason gymnastic classes can go ahead under level 3 but yoga and dance classes cannot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30938/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 609. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an issue raised in correspondence (details supplied); if there will be a January intake for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31233/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 16,000 healthcare staff who have been or will be hired in 2020 as outlined in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31253/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 16,000 healthcare staff who will be hired in 2021 as outlined in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31254/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 16,000 healthcare staff who are expected to be offered full-time HSE contracts as outlined in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31255/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 615. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 16,000 healthcare staff who are expected to be agency staff as outlined in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31256/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 616. To ask the Minister for Health the expected occupational breakdown of the 16,000 healthcare staff that the health workforce will increase by as outlined in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31257/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of subacute, AMU, acute inpatient and critical care beds in the public health system on 1 January 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31258/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 618. To ask the Minister for Health the number of subacute, AMU, acute inpatient and critical care beds, disaggregated, in the public health system on 1 October 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31259/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded subacute, AMU, acute inpatient and critical care beds provided for in budget 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31260/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 620. To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded subacute, AMU, acute inpatient and critical care beds provided for in budget 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31261/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of subacute, AMU, acute inpatient and critical care beds not provided for in budget 2021 which will be open on a temporary basis in either 2020 or 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31262/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (20 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: 622. To ask the Minister for Health the number of subacute, AMU, acute inpatient, and critical care beds inclusive of funded and permanent, non-funded and temporary and closed in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31263/20]