Results 3,621-3,640 of 26,396 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I will read out what we have been given. It frustrates me that when we ask for an updated note I have to read it out. It states that the Department understands that the €7 million reported by the HSE against access to care with the HSE Covid expenditure, as detailed, is not the full spend against the €200 million allocation made under this subhead to the HSE. The total...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I am asking about the access to care fund-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: -----so we are very clear about what I am asking.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: That is fine. It is what I asked for at the start. The figure is €127 million, not €230 million, as the Minister stated. The document goes on to say that the balance of the spend currently embedded will be currently embedded within the core acute deficit. What is the core acute deficit?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: What is the core deficit?
- 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.