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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: More than four weeks. Deputy Lahart is a brave man to say it will be in place in the next few weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: We will see if it happens in four weeks. I wish to move on to elective-only hospitals. There does not seem to be a clear timeframe. Mr. Watt spoke about finalised design changes and expediting the process. We were told there would be a step-change in how we can deliver on big infrastructural projects in healthcare. It is frustrating for us again that we do not seem to have clear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: I have a final question. I gave the heads-up that I would ask this. I am talking about the elective-only hospitals. Another hospital for which we are still waiting for timelines is the national children's hospital. Is Mr. Watt aware of any serious design flaws anywhere in that hospital that could delay the project very significantly? Has he personally been made aware of any potential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: Mr. Watt has not been made aware of them personally. I thank him very much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: One of the big promises of Sláintecare is that we would, as best we can, decouple private care and activity from the public space and public care. That encompasses an awful lot, and part of the problem that we have in the public system is the huge amount of outsourcing that happens. We can look at agency staff, management consultancy and all of that area. In primary care especially,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: How many salaried GPs have we hired in the last five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: No, how many have we hired in the last five years? Or ten years even?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: That is what I am saying, so we are at ground zero. My question is how do we get from ground zero to something more substantial, where we actually have contracts in place? We know all of these things take time. We spoke earlier about urgency, and the need to do things better and smarter. I am trying to tease out where we are at with it. What Mr. Watt said is nobody is against it, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: That is something that obviously cannot be done next week, next month, or even next year, could it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: I understand that from a policy perspective, the Government has to make a decision that it is going to do it. I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: What might help is if Mr. Watt gave this committee a briefing note on who exactly in the Department and the HSE is looking at this, what meetings have taken place on it, what groundwork has been done, what concepts are out there generally, and if there are any timeframes as to when we might move in that direction. Would that be something that the committee could be furnished with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: Okay. On a related issue, we are talking here about trying to decouple private activity from public care, and making sure that public patients have access to care. Maybe the head of the HSE, Mr. Gloster, might be able to take this one. We are seeing, at the moment, some private nursing homes saying that they may not take fair deal patients. There is a briefing for Oireachtas Members today...

Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with colleagues. I welcome the legislation and the debate today. We are broadly supportive of this Bill but we will bring forward some amendments on Committee Stage which I will discuss later. The Bill is a very important and long overdue public health measure. It was needed years ago when vaping was a new technology and before it was heavily and aggressively marketed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1157. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has not published a Performance Profile or Management Data Report since its September 2022 publications; if he can provide both the Performance Profile and Management Data Report for the most recently available quarterly and monthly periods respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27482/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1158. To ask the Minister for Health the number and details of all approved consultant posts by discipline, speciality, and clinical site grouped and totalled by Hospital Group/CHO respectively providing the numbers filled listed on each of the following basis as permanent, temporary, locum or agency basis; the total number of vacant consultant posts (including those vacant and newly created...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Living Wage (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1179. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of delivering a living wage for home care workers; and the estimated cost of providing for mileage expenses. [27690/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1181. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied) has submitted a claim for its employees providing cleaning and support services at University Hospital Waterford, as the employees are unable to get a definitive reply from the employer. [27717/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 1234. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to establish if a vaccine compensation scheme will be established in view of the urgent recommendations made in the Expert Group Report to Review the Law of Torts and the Current Systems for the Management of Clinical Negligence Claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28089/23]

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

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.