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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses. As I have discussed with Mr. Reid in the past, I am a big supporter of regional health areas. I see significant potential in them. The logic of the policy to integrate primary, community and acute healthcare is strong and I support it. We had some discussion at the last meeting of the different options that went to Cabinet. I would have preferred a different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: A senior Minister accused the HSE of "causing further concern" and went on to say that she was not satisfied with the HSE's responses to straightforward, reasonable questions. The Tánaiste said yesterday that the Ministers, Deputies Donnelly and McEntee, and others, "are not satisfied with the HSE’s responses". Is the Minister unhappy with the responses being given by the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: I understand there was a meeting of Oireachtas Members from the region this week and that a paper was presented by the HSE with clear timeframes. The Minister says there are no such timeframes and he has not signed off on any. There are comments from Ministers that they are not satisfied with responses from the HSE. The public watching on and concerned people in Navan will see that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: Regarding the regional health areas, I might ask Mr. Canavan and Ms Crehan-Roche to respond to my question. I am trying to understand how this could work at a local level. I can understand how at a regional level, you have a single management tier, which makes sense. You want to align your CHO services with acute hospitals. For me, it has to be more than an administrative alignment. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: Could Mr. Reid and Mr. Watt work with this committee over the next number of months as they evolve the policy in this area? Mr. Woods will play a leading role in this as well in terms of rolling out the regional health areas. Obviously, I want to get it right. I would imagine that every member of this committee wants to get it right so where there is good practice, we need to build that in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: We should take up the offer that Mr. Watt made earlier of having a workshop on regionalisation with Mr. Woods, his team and the people who will be involved in that. We can look at drilling down into some of these issues. That would be useful, outside of a committee session in which is more difficult to tease out all of the issues. I will ask a few questions to Mr. Reid on waiting lists...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: I hear what Mr. Reid is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: Just on that - if they are correct - when we say validation am I right in saying that if it is a figure of 110,000, that is 110,000 people who came off waiting lists, not because they were seen by a consultant or not because they were treated, but simply because there could have been duplication, they no longer require care or they were seen elsewhere in that they might have been referred to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: What if I bring forward an amendment Bill to include community and diagnostics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: We get the figures. It is not that we do not get them. I understand that there is a better system of capturing data for acute hospitals. I agree with Mr. Reid that how it is categorised could be a bit better as well, by the way, even from the HSE's perspective, to show when services are working better as opposed to that overall figure that people can see. It is in everyone's interest that...

Special Educational Needs School Places: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: I have met hundreds of parents of children with disabilities in recent months, primarily in the area of healthcare and accessing speech and language therapy support, occupational therapy, child psychology and physiotherapy - a whole range of supports that children with disabilities need and cannot get because we do not have adequate resourcing of children’s disability network teams....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (14 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, following the reduction in fares across public service obligation public transport, there will be measures to reduce fares on privately operated services where there are no public alternatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30184/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (14 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 426. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of one Secretary General III including employer’s PRSI. [29894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 427. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of establishing an Ombudsman for Older People. [29907/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (14 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidelines for planning and development of solar farms; if there are restrictions on the size of solar panel farms in rural areas and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 1074. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the enhanced redundancy agreements for community employment supervisors since 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28892/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 1217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of medical, dental, nursing and all health and social care training and undergraduate places across all courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29086/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 1262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of undergraduate places across medical, dental, nursing, midwifery and all health and social care disciplines that will be available in 2020, 2021 and 2022 intake years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29926/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 1218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a 10% increase in all medical or health related undergraduate courses for Irish/European Union students in tabular form; the number of places that this would create; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29087/22]