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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: People are trying to make reasonable assumptions and form an opinion based on what they see before them, and what they see before them in this letter is very clear and specific in terms of its details, commitments and timeframes. At no point does it say "subject to ministerial approval" or "subject to an Estimates process". I do not know whether the Health Research Board would have needed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: We have been across this already. With respect, that is not the question I asked Mr. Watt. I ask Mr. Watt to bear with me. I am not trying to be unfair. I asked him a direct question. We have been through all of that, that the Minister did not have the full details. We do not need to go back over that ground again. The Minister obviously became aware of the details once that letter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I ask Mr. Watt to allow me to finish my question because he does not know what I am going to ask him. At the point when he became aware of this, as the rest of us did, when this came into the public domain, did he express a disappointment that he did not have that information at any stage up to that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: He never expressed any regret or disappointment that he was not informed of those details.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I am talking about afterwards. I ask Mr. Watt to please just address the question I have asked because I am, to be fair to him, being very specific. We have already established, through the timeframes, including up to the "Morning Ireland" interview, that the Minister was not aware of the details. Obviously, he became aware at some point. We became aware when it came into the public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: I know that. At that point, did the Minister ever express regret that prior to that he was not informed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: So, the answer is "No"

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Is the answer "No"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: But, Mr. Watt would recall it if a Minister was saying to him, "I'm unhappy, Mr. Watt". To be clear, he either did or he did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: That is what I wanted to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Of course. I am asking Mr. Watt about those private conversations. I am asking him about conversations in regard to this process. We are entitled to know the Minister's view. I have a final question. The circular issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in December 2021 in regard to secondments states that all secondments will be temporary in nature and, in general,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: How many of the 14 people who are currently seconded are on open-ended secondment in another Department? How many of them are outside of the range of six months to five years? Once the secondment was put in place, for how many of those 14 people was it agreed that it would be a permanent transfer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: It is zero, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Can Mr. Watt come back to the committee with the details in regard to those 14 people? We do not need names, just the details of their roles and for how many of them, at the point they departed, it was clear it was a permanent departure or that it would be what is now termed an "open-ended secondment"? The Secretary to the Government, when before the finance committee, had no knowledge of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (28 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated direct and indirect impact on mortality rate of patient experience times for emergency department admissions in excess of 12, 24 and 36 hours, in tabular form; the increased rate per 1,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21547/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses from both organisations and thank them for their comprehensive opening statements as well as their extensive submissions to the review. I thank them for their work in this area. It is clear from the import of both presentations that women are still travelling for abortion services. Perhaps I will start with the IFPA, whose representatives said that this was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: I thank Ms Spillane. I will probably not get to ask all of my questions, given that there are many that I wish to ask, so I will focus on the opening statement of the National Women's Council and some of the data presented on poor national coverage, which were shocking in and of themselves. Am I correct in saying that the data that Ms O'Connor presented were data that the National Women's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: According to these data, one in ten GPs is providing abortion services. That is shocking. I thought it would have been much more than that. Only 7% of GPs who provide care to the general public are registered with the My Options service. That is even less than 10%. Half of counties have fewer than ten GPs offering the service, but that is not the worst of it, given that there is a range....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

David Cullinane: I have a follow-up question. I support the recommendation that medical providers should be obliged to record refusals of care on the grounds of conscience and to detail the services they refer women and pregnant people to. That is important. As much data as it is possible to record should be recorded, because that will inform us about this aspect. It should not only inform this review...