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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: It is very clear and emphatic in the report that this needs to be removed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: The last time we were here I asked about the sequential implementation of the recommendations and what was felt was possible here because there are some recommendations that I would argue need to be teased out. I ask the witnesses to echo that again in terms of their recommendations to legislators, where would they start, what could be done immediately and how legislation could be changed. ...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: The one-off funding.

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome the representatives of the various groups that provide essential services to people with disabilities who are in the Public Gallery. This is the first motion we have tabled since the budget. We picked the area of disabilities because it is so important. It has moved from the Department of Health to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth but it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2024 (17 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 538. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an itemised breakdown of new developments funding announced in budget 2024, in tabular form. [44884/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2024 (17 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 539. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an itemised breakdown of the non-core current allocation announced in budget 2024, in tabular form. [44885/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Budget 2024 demonstrates, from my perspective, how the Government has thrown in the towel on health. This budget lacks ambition and vision. More than that, it lacks the funding that is necessary to properly fund our health services. The Minister may be aware that over the past 24 hours there has been a perception that he has been thrown under the bus by the Government because of the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason Revenue Commissioners are changing their approach to reckoning general medical services income being attributed to partnerships or employers, meaning that any such GMS income will need to be declared as income by the individual GMS list holder in their tax return from January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44077/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (10 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 528. To ask the Minister for Health his views on legislating for folic acid fortification of certain staple food products to aid the prevention of certain brain and spinal conditions and neural tube defects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43774/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had any engagement with the Minister for Finance or the Revenue Commissioners regarding plans to prohibit GMS income being mandated to partnerships or employers, meaning that any GMS income will need to be declared as income by the individual GMS list holder in their tax return from January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome Ms Fitzgerald and her team. I thank HIQA first for the work it does and I thank all of its team. It is very important that we have strong regulation because that ensures we have quality and safe care. I hold HIQA in high regard in the context of the work it does, which often receives criticism, but I recognise the value of that regulatory work. My first question is on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Is HIQA on or represented on the emergency department task force?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Just to follow up on that point, we have regular meetings with the officials from the Department of Health and the HSE who are establishing the regional health areas. The purpose of those areas is to better integrate acute, primary and community care to ensure that we do not have silos and that where we have blockages in communities which have an impact on hospitals, that, hopefully, we will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: Has HIQA been asked formally to feed in its outputs from the reports into the regional health area, RHA, process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: My other questions relate to health technology assessments. They are a really useful part of HIQA's work. We all value those data because they are the gold dust. Clinicians can argue all day long but once the data are put in front of them, that is it, it is the end of the discussion. That is why it is so important. We met the chair of HIQA yesterday in private session. I mentioned that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 692. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that he has agreed to limit the ability of the HSE to assign patients to GP GMS lists; the date on which this policy commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42737/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: 693. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in full, the details of the new GMS GP deal agreed over the summer of 2023; and the full extent of changes made to the GMS contract as a result of this deal, in tabular form. [42740/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

David Cullinane: My primary concern is for the families and the children involved in this scandal, as well as many more children and their families who are really concerned. I must put it to Ms Hardiman that this is a dark day for Children's Health Ireland and children's healthcare services. Children and families are going through a lot of hurt and trauma. I counted in Ms Hardiman's opening statement nine...