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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: In relation to doctors providing pre-hospital care on air ambulances, that is something that was in the public domain as Mr. Healy knows.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I say that because it obviously makes sense to me as layperson that doctors on helicopters can attend very bad accidents. The air ambulance service itself is critically important. We have people who work in that space who tell us it is not fit for purpose. They talk about risk to patients and to themselves. I am conscious Mr. Healy is saying there will be review and we will see what comes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I have one final comment before I go. The reason I stepped out was that I contacted a senior official in the Department of Health to ask if it was reasonable and fair to ask a senior member of the National Ambulance Service if they were in receipt of an allowance. I was told it was. It is not just fair but it is straightforward that if a public servant is in receipt of an allowance it is...

Community Pharmacy Agreement: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I welcome the agreement. The Minister's predecessor admitted a number of years ago that the engagement with the Irish Pharmacy Union was not what it should have been and the State was not making the best use of community pharmacies. A number of years ago, I published a very comprehensive plan that set out a lot of what is in this agreement, and more, in relation to what we could do. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 101. To ask the Minister for Health her intentions regarding the provision of comprehensive endometriosis services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52532/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I do not believe that is the biggest challenge at all. It is a challenge, of course, to get projects ready and obviously they have to go through planning processes and there are other processes as well. I met with senior officials in the Department before the last general election. What they set out to us was an ask of about €13.5 billion up to 2030. What was achieved was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Despite all of the best efforts of people who will work in this space, even if they get them to shovel-ready, I have already outlined and done the maths. I have met with the Department. I know the money simply is not there to do all of these projects. It is a case of who is right or who is wrong when it comes to the funding. I would accept that the Minister wants as much as possible to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: That is for 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., not 24-7.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Part of the problem here is that we have had almost a decade of failure and broken promises, some of which it must be said were political promises, and in more recent times a lack of transparency from Children's Health Ireland. Those very same families the Minister has met, and those parents and advocates she would meet, have been screaming from the rooftops about governance failures at CHI...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 78. To ask the Minister for Health if she is confident that sufficient capital funding has been provided for in the national development plan to deliver elective centres, 3,000 additional acute inpatient beds, digital transformation, and the entirety of health infrastructure commitments made by the Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52529/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Capital funding in health is really important. This capital allocation is one of the most important because it is linked to many of the big projects that are about reform of the health service. It is about more hospital beds and the 3,000 beds that were promised by the Minister's predecessor before the local elections last year. Elective hospitals have to be built, which is really...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 76. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider an independent public inquiry into scandals at Children’s Health Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52528/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: My first question relates to the need for a public inquiry into spinal surgeries for children with scoliosis and spina bifida at CHI. I note the Minister met Harvey Morrison Sherratt's family with the Tánaiste recently and it seems a commitment was given to an inquiry. Will the Minister inform the House as to what form that inquiry will take and what her view of the timeframe will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: There are different models but it is important that this is an inquiry. That is what families are looking for. Obviously, there are different types of inquiries. We have seen in the past where inquiries were promised and they end up being reviews and investigations, very similar to the Nayagam review which is ongoing and still has not been published. This inquiry has to be comprehensive....

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 92. To ask the Minister for Health the handover date for the new children’s hospital; if there is a compliant programme of works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52531/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to reduce premature mortality among men; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if she has ensured a permanent solution to the helicopter emergency medical services crewing model safety concerns raised by paramedics who resigned from the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52534/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 158. To ask the Minister for Health when she will extend public immunisation schemes to provide free RSV and shingles cover; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52530/25]

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Carers do invaluable work and each and every one of us, in our constituency offices, deals with family carers almost on a daily basis, certainly on a weekly basis. I visited one family in Waterford last week. It was a woman who was looking after her father. She was actually sick herself. When I got to the house, she was physically lifting her father, who is much heavier than her, out of a...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.