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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I agree. I thank the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: I know that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) David Cullinane: It is welcome because it provides more clarity. I welcome and accept that. The third issue I want to raise-----
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (1 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: 329. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Insurance Authority makes comparisons between valid, existing, to be discontinued policies and other policies available on its website where currently it only presents comparisons between policies which may be purchased for the year ahead but does not provide a comparison tool against a customer's existing policy where that...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: 348. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations that have been given to the establishment of a long-Covid clinic in the Southeast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59991/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2022)
David Cullinane: 349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the provision of a long-Covid clinic for Cork University Hospital; the staffing resources and vacancies for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59992/22]
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Nov 2022)
David Cullinane: Sinn Féin will support this Bill, as we always do. It is an annual Bill to review the risk equalisation mechanism that supports the community-based health insurance market. It revises the stamp duty levy on policies and the risk equalisation credits payable to insurers for 2023. It is a self-funded system. Risk equalisation as a principle ensures that costs are constant across the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Nov 2022)
David Cullinane: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the regulation of psychologists with CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59647/22]
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: It is completely unacceptable and treats this committee with contempt that we get a 24-page briefing document a couple of hours before the session. The Minister is coming in looking for an additional €1.3 billion, much of which is Covid expenditure. Then there are figures of €600 million and €500 million, and on cash reserves, etc. We are trying to figure that out....
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: We have had a discussion on what happened this morning. The Dáil granted leave for the Revised Estimate to come before this committee two weeks ago and, in fairness to the staff of the committee, they were chasing his Department to get the information this committee needed during that time. The Minister has to appreciate that. To unpack some of the figures that have been presented to...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I will read what is in the Minister's opening statement because he is giving us this information and so if there is more than that, it is not in the opening statement. The opening statement states "This ask is primarily driven by COVID-19 expenditure which makes up €1.181 billion or 85 per cent"of it and then that €200 million was set aside in the contingency fund. The...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Which we have only got sight of. According to the opening statement provided, the €200 million was set aside in the contingency fund but it does not give any more detail, and that document is all we had to prepare for this session. However, it is actually more than that because the opening statement goes on to state there was "A further ask of €600 million for non-COVID-19...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Can I just go by the Minister's figures? I can only go by what he has provided in his opening statement. We can agree on the €1.39 billion figure, that is the substance of this Supplementary Estimate and that is what is being sought, which is fine. Separate from that, it makes reference to a further ask of €600 million for non-Covid-19 expenditure and €90 million for...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Can the Minister tell me where it comes from?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: Please.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: The Minister should at least know, in the general ballpark, where that money came from.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I am not talking about the €1.392 billion; it is separate from that. The Minister has to read his own opening statement. The €1.392 billion is that figure and if the Minister's official might just confirm if I am right, the opening statement goes on to say a further ask of €600 million for non-Covid-19 expenditure. Can I ask if the €600 million is separate from...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) David Cullinane: I have to stop Mr. O'Grady there. This is just getting bizarre because the Minister says in his opening statement that the €1.39 billion is primarily made up of 85% or €1.181 billion for Covid-19 expenditure. It goes on to state, in the Minister's own words, there was "A further ask of €600 million for non-COVID-19 expenditure [in current] and €90 million for...