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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: 33. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with complex orthopaedic conditions on waiting lists with Children's Health Ireland; his plans for making treatment abroad accessible for these children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39368/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: 39. To ask the Minister for Health if he can guarantee when inpatient residential dual diagnosis services will resume in Keltoi; what has caused the delay in reopening these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39372/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: 45. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the severe restrictions on recruitment in the health service under the pay and numbers strategy; if he will reverse the loss of pre-existing vacancies; if he is aware of the complications his budget has caused for people returning from leave or career breaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39371/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (3 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: 52. To ask the Minister for Health the composition of regional executive management teams; if this will include a chief health and social care professional; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39369/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (3 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: 63. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date by the productivity and savings task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39370/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: It is scandalous.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: This time last year when I took to my feet, I warned that the Government's funding of the health service was chaotic. I said that the health service would need a very significant bailout, in the region of €1.5 billion at least and possibly higher. I was joined in this by the head of the HSE but, as the Minister might recall, there was serious pushback from the Taoiseach, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Another promise.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome all the witnesses. There is a lot of smoke and mirrors in relation to the pay and numbers strategy and the embargo that we just had for the best part of a year, including what we call it. We call it a recruitment embargo and the HSE wants to call it a temporary freeze. We have had all this messing for the best part of a year. What we can say for a fact is that there has been a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Okay, I have that point-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I have that point, and it is a valid point. I want to come back to the central point that has been made by all of the witnesses here, which is the suppressing of posts. I am looking at Ms Ní Sheaghdha's own opening statement. Some 2,000 nursing and midwifery posts have effectively been abolished. For listeners, people watching and those worried about what is happening in hospitals,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I just want to be clear on the numbers. When Ms Ní Sheaghdha says 2,000 nursing and midwifery posts have effectively been abolished, were they posts advertised and funded by the HSE, or are they posts where line managers would have identified a need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Okay. I want to come on to SIPTU with regard to other non-nursing grades. Does SIPTU have a number as to how many of those grades would have been abolished, in effect, as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: What I am seeing from Mr. Ginley's opening statement is that the HSE refused to share data with any union as to how many funded and approved vacancies have been suppressed. Mr. Ginley is looking for that information but has not been given it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I want to offer the remaining time I have to Ms Kelleher who is, we are told, a radiation therapist. Ms Kelleher might be able to give us a sense - Mr. Ginley spoke in his opening statement about equipment not being utilised and the shortage of radiation therapists - of what effect the embargo has had on her grade and on the service that her professionals and colleagues provide. I will give...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Through the Chair, I ask that if the unions are telling us they have sought data and they have not got it, maybe we can use our own offices here to request that information from the HSE regarding suppressed posts, unfilled posts and all of the information that the unions have not got. There has not been any engagement. What the witnesses are telling us is that unilateral decisions were made...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (2 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will approve funding for the runway extension at Waterford Airport; if he will set out a timeframe for a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39294/24]

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Consider the many debates we have had in this Chamber about vulture funds swooping in and buying up homes, in some cases buying up housing estates and in some cases apartment blocks. We have had debates like this and the Ministers across the Chamber shrugged their shoulders, saying, "What can we do?". Today the Minister has an opportunity to do something and again this week the Government...