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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: That would not add up because that is €80 million, and the Minister said yesterday there is €10 million for IVF yesterday-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: That does not strike me as adding up to €107 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: I want this to work. We have had discussions on this ourselves as well. I think everybody wants this to work. I have tabled many parliamentary questions on this over the past year and I have had this out with Mr. Watt directly as well. I could not get costings and I was told that the work was not done on looking at demographic changes and an increase in demand that will happen if GP care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: As it is Mr. Reid's final meeting, I wish him well in his retirement. I know he had a very difficult role to fulfil with Covid-19 over the past number of years, along with the cyberattack and many of the challenges the HSE faced. On my own and my party's behalf, I wish him well and thank him for his work in healthcare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: I will take just two or three minutes and leave it at that. I wanted to come back in to get a sense of what the interaction is between the Department of Health, the HSE and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. We want to be successful on workforce planning. We have got some information from Mr. Watt and Mr. Reid today but it would be important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: I am referring to a formal structure and not ad hocmeetings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: Can I also add to that? Training them is one thing but retaining them is as important. If we consider the numbers of doctors who have emigrated, where visas were given by the Australian government to Irish doctors emigrating last year, compared 2019, it has increased by about 40%. It is about keeping them here. We have junior doctors who are threatening strike action. There is a myriad...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: The Minister is on record as saying that he favours the hospital in Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: The Deputy might get answers at the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party meeting.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Small Benefits Exemption (27 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: Some 1.8 million workers who pay tax got shafted.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: The Tánaiste was not here earlier when almost the entire Opposition opposed even having this debate here today. We have 15 minutes to discuss a €6 billion fund. I understand €2 billion will be allocated this year. We could have a quarrel or debate about the amount of money which is being put aside. Under Sinn Féin's budgetary proposals, there would still have been...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Small Benefits Exemption (27 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: The measure we are debating to increase in the amount that is allowable for the small benefit exemption is not something that I would oppose. However, in the overall context of today's budget, the biggest losers in this budget are the squeezed middle - a group the Tánaiste has spent much time in this House talking about as has the Taoiseach - and they have been badly let down. Some...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Special Exemption Orders (27 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: I would not call it immediate relief. It is a very marginal measure being taken by the Government. As the Minister said, the fee for the licence is €110. Halving it is an insult to a sector that was severely impacted by Covid. It was one of the worst affected sectors, possibly the worst affected, of any business sector during Covid. We are all aware of the range of issues that...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: There are 36 minutes.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to benefit-in-kind on company cars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46781/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: 464. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the availability of the provision of evusheld to immunocompromised patients in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46754/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: 511. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the drugs payment scheme card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46982/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Diagnoses (27 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: 512. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a child (details supplied) who was assessed by an agency over the summer and whose parents were verbally informed that they meet the criteria for an autism diagnosis have not yet received the written report despite repeated requests by them and the children's disability network team; and if he will take steps to ensure that they receive a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene to prevent the cessation of public transport routes in east Waterford (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45815/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Sep 2022)

David Cullinane: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the number of scoliosis and spina bifida related orthopaedic procedures carried out for children in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46111/22]