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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: I will ask a number of questions on capital funding and the delivery of capital projects at pace, which we do not seem to get right both in respect of housing and healthcare. On a more positive note, I commend Derek Tierney on his work in this area. He has brought a new sharpness to the area of capital funding and has ideas on how we can progress projects more quickly. Speeding up the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: Do we have to wait until budget 2024 for the funding for that or is that being progressed?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: On that, we have to prepare and do our job of holding the Minister to account and also put forward our alternatives, which can be quite difficult if we do not get information. I have asked the Department to come back to me with a note on how many beds were delivered over the last five years, which I would imagine should be fairly easy to get. How many beds were delivered and what was the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: Will all of that have to go into one budget or could it be staggered over a number of budgets?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: I am not saying it should be in one budget. I am just asking if it is more likely that it will be multi-annual.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: In how many years would the Minister hope to do it?
- 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: I imagine the 160-bed unit would be separate from those 150 beds.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: I meant to say the 1,500 beds.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: I will get back to the hospital management and make sure it is alert to all of that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: I want to ask the Minister about two separate local issues. I do not often use my opportunity to raise local issues but they are obviously important. There was a proposal to build an orthopaedic unit, a new stand-alone centre of excellence for University Hospital Waterford. This was announced a long time ago and the former CEO of the hospital group briefed Oireachtas Members in the south...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: There are at least six if not eight who have been-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: The Minister did not answer this point but I am assuming it is not unreasonable to ask how many beds were delivered and what the capital and current cost of those were over five years.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: It strikes me as bizarre that we have to keep pushing and asking and then getting half answers. Surely it is reasonable for the Opposition to ask for simple information that should be provided quickly.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: I have asked for it and I have not got it so if it could be forwarded to me, I would appreciate it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: Surely the Department would know how much it cost. There is a problem if it does not. It is not about what we will do in the future but about what we have done. How many beds were delivered over the last five years and how much did they cost?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: But it is important.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) David Cullinane: What about the orthopaedic unit?