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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: There is a bidding process.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Okay.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (25 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 192. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 29 February 2024, and given the continuing prevalence of the large, colourful and attention-grabbing tobacco price lists used in shops to highlight certain tobacco products, if she will examine providing for such amendment in the Bill to further regulate nicotine inhaling products, which is currently being...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: As was said, the first priority should be ensuring people are cared for in the home and in the community. The difficulty is that many older people are waiting for intensive home care packages. In the previous term and the previous programme for Government, the then Government promised a statutory home care scheme. It never the light of day. I am not sure when that will ever come. I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the number and details of reports, by report type, procured by Children’s Health Ireland from a company (details supplied) in the period 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and the substance or subject area to which the reports relate. [34003/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 881. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by each public hospital, including Section 38 organisations where it must be requested, on private ambulances in each of the years 2015 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [34328/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: 902. To ask the Minister for Health when she expects to receive and to publish the review of urgent and emergency care in the midwest; the resources and WTE staff committed to the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34378/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: I too have been contacted by the Waterford-Wexford ETB. The issue seems to relate to the contract training programme for apprenticeships. My understanding is that there was a bid process previously, known as a funding allocation request, FAR, to the then Department of Education, based on the number of apprenticeships an ETB would fund and they would get the funding on that basis....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: The Minister has acknowledged that a funding pressure has been identified so we know there is an issue. The question then is how it will be resolved. I welcome that the Minister said no class or apprenticeship will be either suspended or cancelled. I have been told by the Waterford-Wexford ETB that many of the phase 2 classes for July have not been called, which could affect up to 500...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: I have lost count of the number of times I have raised the need for funding for Waterford Airport in the House. In fact, I have raised this several times with the Tánaiste – almost a dozen at this point. I have also raised it several times with the Taoiseach and the relevant Minister. Despite all the personal statements of support I have received, more of which I have no doubt...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Well, now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: People are not buying any of that bluster.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: The high energy has fizzled out. Gone.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: We know that, and you are not doing it. It is just spin, spin, spin.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: At a time when rents are at record levels the Tánaiste's Government has come up with a new solution: to hike them up even further. Its proposal to effectively remove rent controls from new tenancies signals disaster for renters, especially young people, students and their families and anyone who moves to a new rental home. The reality of the Government's plan was always clear, but now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Again the Tánaiste's response is all spin, bluster and blaming everybody else-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: -----but his Government for the fact it is bringing in policies that will drive up the cost of rent for many people. Students will not buy his line of argument. They will see through his spin. Many students are going to see their rent and the cost of their accommodation increase. They know it. They know the Government does not have their backs. The Tánaiste talks about a balance,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: It is more money for them and more profit for them, which is always the case under Fine Gael, which represents a cosseted, privileged class, from my perspective.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: Ordinary people who have to pay increased costs on groceries, insurance and now rent are the ones who are paying the price. The Tánaiste should stand up once and for all. He should not be blaming Sinn Féin for something we did not do and take responsibility for his actions. The Central Bank made it clear today this will hurt those same people. Take responsibility for it, stop...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: More spin, more bluster.