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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: This morning, the Irish Examiner reported that up to 6,000 patients in County Waterford and the south east are in a living nightmare due to an extraordinarily long wait for their cancer test results. At the end of last year, there was a backlog of more than 6,000 potentially cancerous tissue samples waiting to be processed in the histology department of University Hospital Waterford. This...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I spoke to hospital management early this morning to be assured that whatever can be done is being done. The manager I spoke to said the serious incident management team has been in place for some weeks. She also said the transfer of samples to other laboratories is not happening at the pace promised and that the hospital has directly asked the two CEOs of the hospital groups, because St....

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with my colleagues. I commend the Regional Group for tabling this motion. We tabled a similar motion last night and the response from the Minister, which was a scripted speech on the motion, was nothing short of disgraceful. Rather than accepting the reality of the challenges that paramedics in the NAS and patients face, with lengthening wait times for ambulances as shown...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome our guests. I apologise that I will have to leave after my contribution given a motion on the National Ambulance Service, on which we have to speak as party spokespersons, is to be taken in the House. It is unacceptable that all these years after Sláintecare was created, we are still having discussions about delivery mechanisms, who is accountable for what and governance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I will come in on my second issue, because that is what I wanted to deal with. I have four areas and probably will not get to all of them. Governance and regional health areas was my next topic. I was not part of the original Sláintecare committee, but part of the logic of the regional health areas was to end that siloing whereby primary care was over here, acute care over there,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I will leave Dr. Johnston to come in on population-based budgeting, which is going to be part of the regional health areas and is important. I have a quick query on free GP care, which obviously needs to happen. However, do our guests agree we must get the foundations right? This would mean ensuring we are training more GPs, looking at a new contract for them and also examining...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Have our guests considered directly-hired GPs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: We are waiting for it as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Agreed. I thank Dr. Burke.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: It takes a bit of a brass neck to deliver the speech that the Minister for Health delivered earlier today. It is so full of inaccuracies and mistruths, it is hard to know where to start. I will start with the first one, where he said that the Sinn Féin motion would have you believe that our NAS professionals are failing in their job. In fact, the very first line of our motion...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: That is not true.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: commends the tireless work of frontline paramedics and operational staff in dealing with increased demand without proportional resource increases; notes that: — 80 per cent of life-threatening incidents should be responded to by an ambulance within 19 minutes, as per the Health Service Executive's (HSE) own standards; — average...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the removal of walk-in services from Children’s Health Ireland urgent care services; if these services will be returned; the resources required to return these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10039/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of paramedics trained by the National Ambulance Service in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, in tabular form; the planned number which will be trained in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10143/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (28 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 658. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent staffing composition of the National Ambulance Service at 1 January 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, in tabular form; the level of staff turnover and new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10144/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Many homeowners are experiencing sharp and sudden hikes in interest rates. The vulture fund, Pepper, has warned borrowers it will hike interest rates again, with many now facing mortgage repayments which are as much as €3,500 higher than last year. It is now clear that the assurances made by Ministers that those whose mortgages were sold to vulture funds would be no worse off were...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: The Tánaiste said that the waiting times at Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Limerick are a cause for concern. They are not just a cause for concern, they are completely unacceptable. What is happening is shocking and scandalous. I put it to the Tánaiste that, in his constituency, people over the age of 75 who deserve better and who should be treated with respect...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Say that to the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Yet the Government took them out.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome the ambassador from Ukraine. We stand with the people of Ukraine. I also welcome the other guests in the Visitors Gallery. I am sure the entire House will join with me in unreservedly condemning the attack on an off-duty police officer in Omagh last night. My thoughts are with the officer injured in the shooting and his family, who will be traumatised by this attack. It is...