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Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: A lot of issues have been raised by my colleagues, particularly by Teachtaí Mac Lochlainn and McGuinness, in relation to quotas, an existential threat facing fishermen and European and State policy. I support all of that and all the points that they made. I wish to concentrate on infrastructure because it is important. The Minister visited Waterford recently. One of the points of...

Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Men's Health: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. Men's health is not a topic which gets proper attention. There is a silent crisis in men's health which is devastating families and communities across the State. Both the Minister and the Minister of State are correct to appeal to men to look after their health, to seek support, to get checks and to make sure that if there is a difficulty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I will first pick up on that issue of PET scanners. We do not have one in the south east either, other than the one in private hospital. From responses to parliamentary questions I have submitted, I know the business case for a PET scanner has been submitted by University Hospital Waterford. To reinforce how important these scanners are from the witnesses' perspective, they have said they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am looking at the opening statement from the Irish Cancer Society. It talks about 4,100 people waiting more than the recommended 28 days for an urgent colonoscopy and states that "Too many women are waiting too long for urgent breast clinic access". We saw a lot of data in that area emerge in the summer. Some 880 people did not start radiation therapy within the recommended 15 days....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I agree with all of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: The key issue is the question of what new funding is made available each and every year. If there is a lack of transparency around that and we do not how much additional funding is coming and where it is going, we cannot make any genuine assessment as to whether we are investing in improved services. To go back to my fundamental question, we were clear on how much additional funding was to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I have one final point. That is okay in principle but not if it is being done to shirk accountability. It could be a recipe for disaster and we may never know where any money or additional funding is going in the health service. National strategies are national strategies for a reason. It should be crystal clear because, if there was additional funding, there would be political benefit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am sure Mr. McCallion is aware of the phrase “show me the money”. In his opening statement, he referred to budget 2025 and €20 million in additional funding for the national cancer strategy. Nowhere in his opening statement did he mention any additional funding for new measures for budget 2026. We have been asking about this. We have asked the Irish Cancer Society....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am not asking about total expenditure. I am asking about additional funding for new measures. I do not want any other answer. It is either "Yes" or "No". Mr. McCallion either knows what it is or he does not. It is for new measures and new funding. Reference was made to €20 million for 2025. What is the comparable figure for 2026?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am not asking Mr. McCallion about all those other measures. We will talk about those later. I am talking about the national cancer strategy. It is deeply disappointing that we do not have a figure. It is suspect that we do not have one. There is a fear that there is no new money for the national cancer strategy this year. Others have spoken about a fear of decentralising. I do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: If a person is a member of the Irish Cancer Society, or perhaps is a person who has cancer, none of the data that was presented to us this morning answers the fundamental question as to where additional resources will come from. We learned this morning that from January to July of this year, 4,100 people were waiting more than the recommended 28 days for urgent colonoscopies. What is in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am asking Mr. McCallion about increased funding. I am talking about funding. What matters here is what is new and what additional money will be put in. We know there is a growing population and increased demand. When we already have 4,100 people waiting more than 28 days for a colonoscopy, I want to know what is in the budget for next year that will make a difference. Point to me where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I cannot accept that if already this year, 4,100 people were waiting more than the recommended 28 days for an urgent colonoscopy. A total of 5,800 women were not seen within the recommended ten days at urgent symptomatic breast disease clinics. Again, this was from January to July. A further 880 people did not have radiation therapy on time. Those people were all waiting within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: So, in every other year-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Mr. McCallion came into the committee this morning and reaffirmed the €20 million figure for last year. I have been a health spokesperson since 2020. In 2021, we knew what funding was going into the national cancer strategy and in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. This year, we are being told zero - silence. If Mr. McCallion cannot tell me a figure, I can only surmise that there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Was that needed in previous budgets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: To conclude, I have spoken to very senior officials in the Department of Health and they have told me that the vast majority of the €1.5 billion of additional funding was for existing levels of service. There is very little, if any, new money for new measures. There needs to be a degree of honesty here. There is no point having sessions where we want to talk about additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am talking about new measures and new money.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Land Development Agency (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 218. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE issued a formal S53 Notice to the LDA regarding the Baggot Street Hospital Site in Dublin; if any relevant State bodies formally declined in writing or in any other way to take the property for housing; if there is a public record by way of emails, minutes, memos, written or electronic correspondence of discussions between the HSE, the Department...