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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: So we are now running a deficit to pay for the access to care fund as opposed to the money being spent in the way it was meant to be spent. Is that right?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I imagine that it has to balance out somewhere. However, my point is there is a lot of reprofiling of money here for this one particular fund alone. It suggests, as the Minister has acknowledged, that this centralised financial management system is more important than ever. It is really difficult to track. I will not even have time to go into PPE, which is even worse. It is mind-boggling...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: The €497 million.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I get all that; that is what we said last week. I am saying that different figures have been presented today.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: It needs to be very quick because I only have four minutes left and I have two issues I need to get to.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: That is exactly my point. We should have had that information last week. We asked for that last week. In fact, Deputy Shortall spent a long time trying to establish what the estimated figure for PPE was. She was told it was €118 million; as it turns out it was €151 million. I agree with the Minister, but it is now that we are getting the information which vindicates us...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I accept that. Perhaps by next week, the Minister might provide us with a note on when people might expect to be paid.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: We should not pass the buck on any organisation. The responsibility for ensuring prompt payments were made, in my view, rests with the Department. I wish to ask about issues relating to the State Claims Agency. The Minister mentioned that a note on future claims would be sent to us in due course. He also mentioned CervicalCheck and patient safety. Earlier today, the Minister and I had...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I am asking-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: The Minister is misunderstanding what I said.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: Yes, but he cannot misinterpret what I said.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: For me, CervicalCheck involves a simple test. Whatever happens in the context of the Bill, one question will have to be answered. It is not about whether any woman requested information. In real time, when Vicky Phelan and all the other women had discordant slides, one of whom found that out by accident when she read her own records, that was part of an audit and that audit had not been...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: We were talking about the State Claims Agency as well and this comes under that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I had contacted the Minister directly in regard to the State Claims Agency.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I have three more questions. We will support the Supplementary Estimate because we have to, rather than because we want to. Page 11 of the Minister's briefing note makes reference to acute capacity beds and the number of beds that will be put in place this year. We had some discussion on this last week. In fact, a number of weeks ago when some of the Minister's colleagues from the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: We got that information a couple of weeks ago. I accept that a lot of additional beds have been provided. However, my question concerns the fact that notwithstanding that 1,000 beds have been delivered and 1,200 were funded, some will not be delivered until next year. In the case of Drogheda, there has been a clear bed problem. When is that going to be addressed? If I were to respond in...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: But that came from a hospital manager.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I agree. I have been saying for some time that, if we want to solve the problems in our emergency departments and acute hospitals, we need to look at the community, step-down, convalescent and rehabilitation beds. I move to a second issue and two related issues. I am seeking information. Page 11 of the document refers to agency savings. No matter how many times I ask this question, I...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: Okay. It says here the savings were made but my understanding is that, for 2021, the spend was in the region of about €500 million. Can we get that briefing note this time? It is reasonable for us to know how much money we are outsourcing. Can I ask for a bit more information as well? I have asked this in parliamentary questions and we never get the answer. We get thrown from...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: Everything, and it can be broken down. It would be great if the Minister could provide me with that. It would be what I would have asked for several times through parliamentary questions and I was not able to get it.