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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Yes, it is a big part of it. I am saying that we cannot arrive at a situation next winter, and, indeed, right through this year, in which people are asking us what additional bed capacity beyond what was previously funded has been put into the system. If the answer is zero, that is a failure of the system. If we are talking about changing the culture and building public confidence, the way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: We have been hearing from Ministers, heads of the HSE and Secretaries General for years that they do not have a magic wand. Nobody expects Mr. Gloster to have a magic wand. What people expect is that hospitals are properly equipped and have the bed capacity they need. It is not beyond us to put in the capacity. Magic wands are in nobody's gift but we can plan and we can put in the capacity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Before we get to Waterford, I am tight on time and I want to ask Mr. Gloster about the regional health areas, RHAs, which is a really important issue. What is the first step to put those areas in place? We had a number of meetings as members of the committee with all of the officials, but we are still waiting for the plan and the roll-out. Mr. Gloster is now in charge and I assume he can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: When will they be in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I want to be associated with those remarks about Waterford. We want to see managers being held to account. Going back to the RHAs, the committee has been briefed a number of times. Can a briefing session be arranged for members in advance of whatever developments happen on this issue? We have had two very good meetings with the staff working on the delivery of the RHAs. A briefing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Gloster.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: To follow on from the theme of the last discussion, I had a similar experience to Mr. Gloster when I was appointed health spokesperson for my party. Unfortunately, I started at the height of the pandemic, which was a difficult situation for everybody. I spent about ten months meeting hospital managers, front-line healthcare professionals and people in the Department and HSE. I was talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: A total of 970 were delivered. I have it here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: In 2022, it was 970. This year it is 207.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Yes, and 49 are to be delivered in 2024.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster has talked of pace and delivery. Why are 49 beds not being delivered until 2024? Why in God's name is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I do not want to be unfair to Mr. Gloster, but the last thing people want to hear is excuses. We have been listening to excuses for years. When we say we want delivery at pace and when we say we want timely implementation, I put it to Mr. Gloster that one of the key issues, though not the sole one, is beds in hospitals. The IMO says it, the INMO says it and hospital managers say it. Every...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: This was a big announcement. I acknowledged at the time it was a significant number of beds to deliver in 2021. We were then told we would see more in 2022, 2023 and 2024, yet here we are with no additional beds beyond the figure of 1,228. It has taken us four years to deliver beds that were funded in October 2020. That frustrates me because I have a genuine fear we will get to winter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: My quarrel is not with Mr. Gloster at all, because he is only in the door. His vision and everything he has set out is exactly what we need. He has set a clear direction for the HSE that I support and which will serve the health service very well. I fully support the overall direction of what Mr. Gloster is trying to do, but equally, for him to be a success, those bottlenecks in the system...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: As mentioned by the Chair, the time it takes to get things done is far too long. We still do not have many of those teams under the enhanced community care model funded and in place. Home help and all of that is still an area in which we have hours funded but we cannot deliver them. We talk about implementation and delivery and that is where the priority will need to be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I wish Mr. Gloster well.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the provision of home tuition for children with complex special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13010/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 883. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children's disability networks teams, by CHO/CDNT for January and February 2019 to 2023, inclusive, in tabular form; the average length of wait; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12409/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 884. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people on disability service waiting lists for each service type, excluding children's disability network teams, for January and February 2019 to 2023, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12410/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (21 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 885. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of needs for January and February 2019 to 2023, inclusive, in tabular form; and the number overdue for completion; the average length of wait. [12411/23]