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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 May 2023)

David Cullinane: 671. To ask the Minister for Health the hourly cost of the HSE directly providing home care services; the cost per hour; the equivalent cost for a whole-time equivalent worker; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22765/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 May 2023)

David Cullinane: 706. To ask the Minister for Health the additional revenue cost of staffing and servicing the additional acute inpatient beds added to the health service in each of the years 2019 to 2022. [23012/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 May 2023)

David Cullinane: 714. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 785 of 13 January 2021, the status of the licensing and reimbursement of jorveza, used to treat eosinophilic oesophagitis, on the drug payment scheme. [23105/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (11 May 2023)

David Cullinane: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to an application for incremental credit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22263/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 May 2023)

David Cullinane: 201. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken to promote the single rural dwellings scheme in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22258/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 May 2023)

David Cullinane: 203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been made aware of local authorities that have completely ceased to fund and promote single rural dwelling as a form of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22260/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (11 May 2023)

David Cullinane: 202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons housed by way of homes built on that person's own site in Waterford in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22259/23]

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: Is there a timeframe?

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: The Minister has already made that point.

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I support the amendment, although much of what the Irish Dental Association is calling for can be done without this amendment or even without this Bill passing were the amendment to be accepted. Of course, I support the amendment. I engaged with the Irish Dental Association on many of these issues. It is troubling that we have a representative body lobbying us as legislators to say that...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I support the amendment tabled by Deputy Shortall and agree with her points on health and social care services and workers. On Second Stage and on a number of other occasions, I have raised with the Minister the sectors which are still not regulated and which still will not be captured with this Bill. Home care is one of those. The Minister will appreciate the difficulties we have in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome our witnesses. If I may, I will start by reading back to Mr. O'Connor some of his opening statement and then agreeing with what he said but also using that as context and backdrop to the Bill being brought forward. His opening statement was quite sobering as to how far behind we are not only on patient data and information sharing but also on IT systems and e-health. He said,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: Yes. It was 2017.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: Was that accepted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: So here we are in 2023, and the cases that were made in both 2017 and 2019 were rejected by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. Where are we now, then, with a business case for electronic health records? When Mr. Fran Thompson was last before the health committee on this issue, he said we are not even at the starting line.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I am not interested in the history because the history speaks for itself: it is appalling. Obviously, there was pushback from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, which in and of itself was unacceptable, and I do not accept the reasons it gave for pushing back. In any event, we are not even at the starting line. The Department is bringing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: That was a rejection. When Mr. Thompson was here he accepted that it was rejected and he said there were a couple of reasons for that. He said: First, we put forward our business case to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which was not accepted. It is around capacity and around the people and additional bodies on our side of it. He was therefore accepting that it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: Mr. O'Connor is telling me there is work under way when this goes back to 2017 and 2019. We are now in 2023. Work under way does not mean anything to me because it does not give me any date or timeframe. If Mr. O'Connor does not have the answer, he can just tell me that he does not know when it is likely this work will be done and that the Department does not have a timeframe. If that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: Is it a reasonable question from me? With respect, Mr. O'Connor is not answering it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

David Cullinane: Bear with me. Is there a timeframe? Mr. O'Connor is saying they have to scale up capacity. I accept that, but I am asking a straight question. Cases were made in 2017 and 2019. In 2019, the business case was rejected. We are here in 2023. We want this delivered and whatever roadblocks and barriers in place need to be overcome. Is there a date or timeframe that the Department and the...