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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: The Tánaiste is floundering.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Strategies (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: Hopefully if the electorate has good sense, I will be the Minister who produces that single piece of paper and plan that will deliver a lot of what the Minister talked about but that has not been delivered. All those ingredients are part of what is needed to reduce waiting lists because while there has been some positive movement in terms of long waiters, far too many people are still...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Strategies (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a multi-annual capacity expansion plan for the health service and for hospitals in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17405/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Strategies (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: I am sure the Minister will agree that reducing the health waiting lists, the time people must wait for care and the time people must wait in emergency departments needs to be a Government priority. I strongly believe we need a multi-annual plan that considers capacity throughout the healthcare system. It should set out medium- and long-term goals to increase capacity and start meeting some...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Strategies (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: My point is not so much about the capacity review because beds comprise only one of the ingredients needed. Having spoken to many hospital managers and front-line healthcare staff, I realise that if we are to reduce waiting lists, we will need more beds. The reason there was such a wide range given for the number of beds that may be required, from 2,500 to 7,500, was the figure was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a plan for achieving universal GP care; when he will publish the details of the free GP expansion promised in the Budget for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17404/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: My first question is in respect of the roll-out of free GP care. As the Minister will be aware, we discussed this at yesterday's meeting of the Joint Committee on Health. Will he give the House an update as to when the additional cards that were promised in budget 2023 will be delivered and the engagements he is having with the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, to progress this matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: The date of 1 April was not a date that I set but was one that was set very clearly by the Minister in the budget for this year. Ministers make big announcements like this. It was a big announcement and it is significant that we are looking to expand free GP care to hundreds of thousands more citizens. It is something that I included in Sinn Féin’s alternative budget and is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: What we need more than ever now is a roadmap to full universal cover and an agreed timeframe with the representative bodies because for too long, we were trying to do this by age and have lengthy contracts with them, which actually did not work. The delivery of the free GP cards for six- and seven-year-olds was promised years ago and did not happen because of contractual disagreements and so...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental and affordable purchase units, by unit type, delivered in Waterford in each of the years 2017 to 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [18623/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in County Waterford in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and the number planned to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in tabular...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: The process is that as Oireachtas Members, we can get clarity. Just this morning, I received an email from somebody who works for an organisation called KOSI, which provides cleaning and security staff. It is saying the staff have not been paid and there is real frustration. In the first instance, I do not know if they are entitled to the payment but I assume they are. If so, what is the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: If there is an organisation that is not paying, or there is a problem, the reverse is also important. I refer to a reverse information flow. We can give the information to the Minister or his officials and they can tell us if people are entitled to the payment. If they are entitled to it, they should be paid. There is a problem as to why they are not being paid. It is a different story...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: We know that.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: I have a lot of questions. I will probably come in twice. I will not cover them all in the first session. I will raise one issue before I move on to some more substantial issues relating to the Estimates. We must ensure there is good governance and accountability with respect to the spending of taxpayers' money. We know health research funding was the subject of a report the Minister...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: I understand that but my point is that the Minister's Secretary General is stating what he sees as facts, which are completely at odds with what the Secretary to the Government is saying. He says that these are not facts. Does the Minister see that as problematic from our perspective when we are talking about spending taxpayers' money? It seems that the Minister for Health was kept in the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: I understand that.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: That is not the case because in his submission, he had asked that sections of the report be taken out. He felt strongly enough to ask for sections of the report to be taken out. I imagine the Minister understands that and that he understands exactly what he was saying. It is problematic. All I am saying is that it is unseemly. It should not happen again. It cannot happen again. We must...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

David Cullinane: I need to move on.