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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Its parts are a contract that will take some time to negotiate, a doubling in the number of practice nurses, more career pathways for nurses to advanced nurse practitioners working in general practice, an increase in training places, and ensuring that we do not leak more doctors abroad. There are many pressures and challenges, but I do not see a coherent plan. I accept that the ICGP has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Waiting lists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I will make a final point, as I must attend Leaders' Questions. I want to see universal GP care. I want to see more people with free GP cover as well but if we serve people initially where this happens without the resources in place and they then end up waiting longer, possibly weeks in some cases, to see a GP, that could sour them quickly, which would be a mistake. We need to get it right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: If 700 of the 2,807 GPs retire in the next three years, that brings us down to 2,100.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: The ICGP wants to be more positive and its job is not to have a bleaker picture painted, but we have to be frank and honest about where we are. This will happen quickly. There is no point in returning to us in six months' time to say that the system has crashed because we have not put the foundations in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Dr. Farrell has made that point several times and we can support it, but it strikes me that we are putting the cart before the horse. All of this should have been done first. We should have been considering putting all of these additional capacity elements into the system. We could then have started looking at expanding services. Mr. Foy or Dr. Quinlan stated that we probably needed 120...

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I thank all of the speakers, including the Minister and Minister of state, for their contributions. The Minister's contribution was much different from the script we were handed. It was less harsh, which may speak to the Minister's style. That is commendable but I want to address some of the issues raised in the written text, which were much more strident. I am afraid the Minister's...

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I know the Minister did not say it. I am talking about his written speech. In fact, it is quite the reverse. I think the work that University Hospital Waterford management has done is phenomenal and I have said for some time that it is a beacon of hope for other hospitals. We need the same level of management elsewhere. It has not only been the manager, who is really important as the...

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: It is transformative.

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: It is about recruitment. Covid did not stop recruitment.

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: It has a number of great Teachtaí Dála who have facilitated its success.

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: That is down to good management.

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: He is right.

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes with concern that: — 12,624 people were admitted to hospital without a bed and left on a trolley or elsewhere in ward corners and corridors in November, the worst November on record for overcrowding according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO); and — on 29th November, the INMO identified that 660 patients were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 529. To ask the Minister for Health if the consultant psychiatrist post for the south east in CHO 5 has been filled; the basis and tenure on which it has been filled; the length of time that the post was vacant; the number of times that the post was advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61634/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 560. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 17 November 2022, the number and details of private providers with whom the HSE has service arrangements that are not on the tender framework, in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the total value of payments made to such providers by service type; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (13 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 561. To ask the Minister for Health the number and details of private providers with whom the HSE have service arrangements who are not on the tender framework for all units in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the total value of payments made to such providers for each service type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61775/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: The Minister will accept that a 3% increase is modest. It is welcome and deserved by workers but we are in the throes of a cost-of-living crisis in which inflation is running high. For many workers, any pay increases is just allowing them to stand still to meet all the rising costs and so on. A priority for all of us with an interest in healthcare, in addition to all the other things we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delays in implementing agreed pay rises for healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61488/22]