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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...

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

David Cullinane: When are we likely to see real flesh on the bones of that? The obvious issue is procurement. Mr. Watt and possibly Mr. Mulvany himself spoke earlier about capital projects that can get stalled. I imagine that if the RHAs are more focused on spending and capital projects and prioritising more, that would be of value. When are we going to see that real flesh put on the bones in that area,...

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

David Cullinane: The outputs are important.

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

David Cullinane: We have had two briefing sessions, which were useful. The last one maybe I think we were a bit more concerned. There is a lot of healthy discussion, and some healthy tension relating to how all of this would work out. That is all accepted. However, at some point we want to see a product. If we had a paper early in the new year where more of it was fleshed out and we have a third meeting...

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

David Cullinane: I have said this a few times and I just want to say it again. It is the view of most members of the committee that if we do not get the devolved part of this right and things are essentially kept as they are at the centre, everything else that falls under that is not going to work. I am not saying that is what is being proposed, but that is why it is important for us. I want to ask a...