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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I might ask one more question and finish. Mr. Bernard Gloster has indicated to this committee that he specifically wants to deal with this issue when he comes in to discuss the HSE's corporate plan. We hope that he will be coming with better news than what we have been given so far. Is there any good reason why these teams are not in place in some of the CHO areas? It strikes me that this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I am finished anyway, so if Dr. Pender wants to take this-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

David Cullinane: Starting with me.

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

David Cullinane: 648. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to deliver a living wage for home support workers and healthcare assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22647/23]

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

David Cullinane: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if he has conducted any analysis of the cost of ensuring a living wage for health care assistants who are providing services in nursing homes to people whose care is funded under the nursing home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22763/23]

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

David Cullinane: 670. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of ensuring a living wage for healthcare assistants and home support workers who are providing publicly contracted home support hours, whether they work for the HSE or another provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22764/23]

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?