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

David Cullinane: When I submitted this question, many health workers had not received their cost-of-living pay increase under Building Momentum. I very much hope that since submitting the question that there have been positive developments. I look forward to the Minister’s response. It is important that we value public healthcare workers. When pay increases are put in place, they should be...

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

David Cullinane: The Minister will accept that it is unacceptable that many of those healthcare workers will have to wait until after Christmas to receive a payment that was due in October. Many workers in nursing homes and elsewhere have also not received their pandemic bonus payment, albeit they are not public sector workers. This speaks to the issue of the need for an integrated financial management...

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

David Cullinane: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a multi-annual capacity plan and waiting list strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61487/22]

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

David Cullinane: This question relates to healthcare waiting lists. At various points during a meeting of the health committee, I asked about the total number of people on waiting lists. I am unsure as to whether that information can be provided in the format I want. I received some information yesterday, but it did not include people awaiting diagnostic scans or planned procedures. When will we see the...

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

David Cullinane: I acknowledge that there has been a reduction in the number of long waiters, which is important, but the Minister will accept that the overall waiting lists are still too high. For some time, I have called for the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, to publish all waiting lists. Currently, it only publishes acute hospital waiting lists. For transparency purposes, it would be better if...

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

David Cullinane: It is important that we welcome the contract and attract more consultants. In tandem with that, though, I have been hearing from consultants for many years that they need more access to hospital equipment, including diagnostic equipment, and surgical theatre capacity. We will ratchet up the number of consultants working in our public system, but many of the current cohort are battling as we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 341. To ask the Minister for Health when he will implement a public-only consultant contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61589/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 342. To ask the Minister for Health when he will appoint a new CEO for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61590/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 343. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the report into Cork University Maternity Hospital’s organ retention and disposal practices; when he will publish the human tissues Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61591/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: 344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement the European Commission recommendation that member states recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease if contracted by healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61592/22]

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: On a point of order, given the Minister has committed we would adjourn at 9.20 p.m., it would be better were the Minister to adjourn it now and were we to come back in January. We have an agreement on how an amendment might look. There is disagreement on the anonymised system. We will continue to have discussions on that. We have not reached agreement and we still hold hope there will be...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Exactly.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: The very fact that we are now looking at an amendment which might take some time to be crafted is a vindication of what we have been saying, which is that we need to go through this legislation properly and thoroughly and get it right. I welcome the fact that there has been movement on this issue. This makes sense because it places a legal obligation on the clinician to inform a woman who...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: Agreed.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister for the briefing provided today by his officials. We had a number of conversations on this issue in recent days. I will start with an observation that I have stated privately to the Minister. It is also important that I put on the record that everybody wants to arrive at the same place. That position is genuinely held by everybody in this Chamber. We all know how...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: In page 4, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 7F of Principal Act 3. Section 7F of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (4A)- (a) in paragraph (a), by the substitution of “4.4 per cent per annum” for “6 per cent per annum”, (b) by the deletion of paragraph (c).”. I welcome the Minister of State,...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I am sorry, but I do not accept that. We have a very important Bill coming up, which we all want to get to, and there is going to be an extended time for that discussion, so I am not going to hold up the Minister of State or anybody else. I will press the amendment without calling for a vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I will come in now because I do not want to be robbed of time. I welcome Mr. Watt, Mr. Mulvany and their teams. I agree with the points Mr. Watt made about community services, including community specialist teams, community intervention teams, chronic disease management programmes and so on. Those services are an important element of Sláintecare. I do not require a response. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: I want to move on to the regional health areas. We have had good discussions with Mr. Woods and others, and Leo Kearns who chairs the advisory committee has been before this committee. It is an important part of how healthcare reform is done. A concern, which I will not overstate, is mentioned in Mr. Mulvany's opening statement where he makes reference to some issues of concern that we...