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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure a school (details supplied) has sufficient classroom space to accommodate existing and future demand; if she is aware that a new teacher is due to start at the school in September this year and that there is currently no additional classroom available to accommodate this teacher and their class; if she will do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome all of our witnesses. I thank them for the detailed briefing note that they supplied to the committee. I also commend them on the recommendations they have made. I know many of us have engaged with them on an ongoing basis. The asks are very credible and they would add significant value to the health service. I commend the witnesses on that work. They have brought an excellent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I refer to the issue of the chief pharmaceutical officer. Many of us on the committee championed the need for a health and social care professional, who would advocate for that sector, and we saw some movement on that issue. I am not against a chief pharmaceutical officer position being put in place. Is there any resistance to that in the HSE or the Department? We did meet with resistance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Would those protocols have, for example, guidelines that would have a second and a third line of a drug? The process would be highly regulated. Step-by-step guidelines would be available. Lots of protections would be in place as part of the process. That is the whole logic of having a protocol.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Would the IPU see a value in having that officer position in place in advance of a national strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: If that officer position was in place, would that officer have a role in the State's policy on drug reimbursement or drug supply? That is a very cumbersome process, which this committee wants to look at as well. Would Ms Foley envisage the officer having a role in that space?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: Okay. I want to move to the minor ailment scheme and to give the IPU most of the remaining time to outline how that would work. I see this as a no-brainer. It is something that I think could happen at pace and speed if the political will was there to make it happen. It should not have to be something that we have to wait for a national strategy to be in place. Obviously a national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I should have mentioned Ms Sheena Mitchell who has done a lot of work in this area as well. I know that the IPU has engaged with her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: I am not sure if she is a member of the IPU -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ----- but she has done a lot of work and I want to commend her. Has the IPU engaged with her on the proposals?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of the backlog in urgent and routine cancer test processing at University Hospital Waterford; the number of tests outstanding; the average length of time it is taking the laboratory to process such tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11258/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 635. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a request for additional resources to tackle a backlog of cancer screening tests at University Hospital Waterford; the number of additional staff required, by grade, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11259/23]

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

David Cullinane: The Taoiseach should speak for himself.

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

David Cullinane: There are plenty of people behind the Taoiseach who would take the job.

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...