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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: I asked the Minister a question yesterday on the floor of the House and also inquired with the clerk to the committee. There is some controversy over previous negotiations with the IMO, as the Minister will appreciate. As an Opposition party, we have sought any documentation, emails or correspondence, between April and May 2019, with the National Association of General Practitioners, NAGP,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: It is any documentation that would have been exchanged between the NAGP and the Department of Health, the HSE, the then Minister for Health, and the Taoiseach at the time, between the months of April and May 2019.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: What is in your remit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: And the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: And the then Minister for Health as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: No, it is any correspondence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: I would imagine it would have been on those issues anyway, but I mean any correspondence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: I would like to move on to the extension of the provision of medical cards to terminally ill patients. I asked the clerk and the committee to write to the Minister regarding the publication of the clinical advisory group report. I understand that the Minister did have a meeting with some campaigners on this issue, and I welcome that. We all want to see progress, but we also need to see the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: I genuinely welcome that, but the Minister also has to engage with the committee as well as health spokespersons. As the chair has said, there was cross-party support for this, and support from everybody across all sections of both Houses. I ask the Minister if this is something on which he is going to deliver.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: On extending the provision of medical cards-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: -----to terminally ill patients. Yes, is it something that the Minister can, and will, deliver on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: That is acceptable, but at the same time, when we hear words like "reform", and reform is then put into the same context as delivery, it can take an awful long time for the delivery to actually happen. We can see that in so many areas. People need to get this done, and it needs to be brought over the line. Indeed, the Minister campaigned for it himself. I want to see it delivered and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: Of course, we have to give the report due consideration. I have three minutes left and I have two important questions I want to ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: I wish to raise a separate issue with the Minister, and it is one close to my own heart, to pardon the pun, in Waterford, namely, the cardiac care issue. I have not had the chance to raise the issue with the Minister as a member of the committee, but I have done so on two occasions on the floor of the Dáil. When I looked at this issue, it struck me that the plan to add a second cath...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: No, it does; we have it from the HSE itself. A very small allocation of capital funding is being made available - €45 million, as the Minister said in his opening statement. I have spoken to many hospital managers, including those in my own constituency and elsewhere, who do not have the space to open new beds. A lot of the wards are old nightingale wards, so when these managers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: No, it does not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: No, it does not. The Minister is factually wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: I am sure the Minister's advisers who have the information can correct him on the matter very easily, because he is factually wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: I ask the Minister to respond to the cardiac issue that I raised, which is an important one for patients in the south east.