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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (29 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding bus regularity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58772/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 611. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to take any measures to increase awareness of developmental co-ordination disorder, commonly known as dyspraxia, among medical and nursing staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58744/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to increase awareness of developmental co-ordination disorder, commonly known as dyspraxia, and to fund research in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58745/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the services and or supports that are available to children with developmental co-ordination disorder, commonly known as dyspraxia; if there are plans to increase current supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58746/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of persons who are waiting to be seen in the national gender service by CHO, LHO and age group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58840/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the BIK changes introduced in Budget 2023 which will have a huge impact on workers during the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58606/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (24 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland has yet to publish its annual report and financial statements for 2021 as required by the Code of Practice for Government and State Bodies (Business and Financial Reporting Requirements); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58495/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (24 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers Bill 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58554/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (24 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed national office for home support; the way that this will align with regional health areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58555/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (24 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 316. To ask the Minister for Health when saxenda will be approved for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58612/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: The Government broke the law.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: It is for non-HSE staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of Health (23 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: I apologise for being late. I was travelling and got caught traffic. I welcome the witnesses. My first question is for Ms Casey. I also welcome the Bill. We had a lot of discussion about nursing homes during Covid. I met HIQA officials a number of times to discuss their understanding of the sector and, more importantly, how they see the State and the HSE understanding the nursing home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of Health (23 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: Heads 4 and 17 provide that there will be an onus on the chief inspector to maintain a reporting mechanism to monitor it. Does HIQA need a new IT system to deal with this? Is the existing IT infrastructure sufficient? What additional capacity and resources would HIQA need to enable it to do this work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of Health (23 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: There is a new system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of Health (23 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: That is good. I will speak about non-compliance notices, which I called for in a document I published on this whole area last year. I did so on the back of considerable engagement I had with the sector, HIQA, nursing homes and so on. While I get the importance of non-compliance notices, it is important that they do not become overly bureaucratic and that they work. When policy hits...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of Health (23 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: My understanding is HIQA will make its own submission. I imagine it will raise some of these issues in its submission. The point I am making is that it is good that we are having this engagement today. The purpose of this process is to improve the Bill. I imagine we are all trying to arrive at the same place. This is an area that we need to get right. While compliance notices can be an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of Health (23 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: One of the problems that surfaced during Covid, and it is an area I feel very strongly about, was a lack of safeguarding laws and supports in nursing homes. It is my understanding that HIQA can only examine system failures. It does not have the power to initiate an inquiry into an individual incident in a nursing home. I understand no authority has that power. That needs to be looked at....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of Health (23 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: That is very important information for us. However, I always get nervous when we have something as fundamentally important as this coming in to a Bill through an amendment at a late stage. We have done pre-legislative scrutiny on the patient safety Bill and that may well be what we want but the committee needs to look at this. It is happening quite often that we have sections of Bills...