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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 630. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 374 of 11 November 2021, the average length of time that it took to recruit and fill a consultant post in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53020/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (25 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 650. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 580 of 4 October 2022, if he will provide details, in tabular form, relating to the panel of education assessors engaged by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53148/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (25 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 651. To ask the Minister for Health if details will be provided on the turnover of permanent, contract, agency and other staff (details supplied) in the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland from January 2021 to September 2022 by month, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53161/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2023 (25 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 701. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 203 of 12 October 2022, the breakdown of the allocations totalling €107.1 million bundled in line one cost-of-living by item in tabular form. [53498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 710. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccinations for children under five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53529/22]

Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: University Hospital Waterford is one of the hospitals that has performed very well. I know that senior officials from the Department visited the hospital last week. There has not been a patient on a hospital trolley in 18 months, or maybe longer, in Waterford. We need to learn from best practice. The reality is, however, that many of the beds that were promised still have not been...

Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 77. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a multiannual waiting list strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52299/22]

Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: The Minister recently stated, presumably in response to a journalist, that if there were 2 million people on waiting lists, Sinn Féin would not be happy, which is obviously a political charge. At this point, 1.3 million people are on hospital waiting lists. That does not make me happy; in fact, it makes me angry and frustrated because, like him, I deal with patients every day who have...

Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Of course, I welcome any reduction in the length of time people are awaiting care and I acknowledge the slight drop in that this year, but it is not just about people who are being treated. According to my latest figures, 60,000 patients were taken off the waiting lists through a process of validation. I do not disagree with that - it needs to be done because the waiting lists have to be...

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 75. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his strategy for addressing the collapse of general practice and primary care out-of-hours services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52298/22]

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: We have a crisis in general practice. We have had reports in recent days of GPs and trainees seeking to emigrate. They are seeking to leave this State because they do not feel they will have opportunities here. The Minister will be aware that while I support the extension of free GP care, some concerns have been expressed by representative bodies about the capacity. We know out-of-hours...

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Obviously, I welcome any additional funding that goes into general practice, but I have also engaged with the representative bodies in recent years, in particular in recent weeks and months since the Government's announcement. There are solutions. What GPs say to me is that we need to train more GPs and we need to increase the number of training places. I agree about practice nurses and...

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Saying it and doing it are two different things. Unfortunately, right across the healthcare system we have not seen the ratcheting up of training places that we need. In Sinn Féin's alternative budget I set out what we would have done this year, namely, 1,500 additional graduate and undergraduate positions across all the fields of study and increased GP training. Having a workforce...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 101. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the full roll-out of early intervention in psychosis services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 106. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for electronic health records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52303/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 121. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to publish an action plan for implementation of the Disability Capacity Review recommendations relevant to the specialist services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 137. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the independent review into the radiation therapy profession following agreement at the Workplace Relations Commission last year between an organisation (details supplied) the HSE and the Department of Health; the timeline for completion of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52300/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 141. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for dental services for public patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52301/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Several times over the past couple of months I have had to raise with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health the issue of the pandemic bonus payment. It has still not been paid to many front-line healthcare workers. Many workers who work in nursing homes, some of the carers of whom we spoke earlier who are not HSE staff and staff in section 39 organisations that provide services to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 202. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 4 October 2022, if he will provide rates provided to each CHO; if procedures can be outlined that qualify for access to the fund; and if there are an operational guidelines/protocol in place for the PCERS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52063/22]