Results 41-60 of 27,329 for speaker:David Cullinane
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: 154. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure will next meet. [55264/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (14 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: 868. To ask the Minister for Health the level of expenditure on services from the association of ambulance chief executives, by the National Ambulance Service and the HSE, for 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [54975/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: 889. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who are in receipt of the allowance for advanced paramedics, broken down by grades director, assistant director, other senior management and other grades, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55280/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: 890. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who are in receipt of the allowance for advanced paramedics but who are not practicing advanced paramedics, broken down by grades director, assistant director, other senior management, and other grades, in tabular form. [55281/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: 891. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have sought but not received the allowance for advance paramedics to date in 2025 [55282/25]
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: What is going on in the area of health? We are 24 hours on from the budget and it is impossible to know where any of the money announced in it will be spent. What is clear is that the vast majority of the additional funding announced yesterday for health is for existing levels of service. I spoke with senior officials in the Department of Health. They informed me that this is down to the...
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: -----and shame on the Government for not providing that detail.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses. I will start with page 11 of the briefing document Mr. Healy submitted. He says it is acknowledged that the purple or red calls, which fall outside the targets that are set, can see patients waiting for more than two hours for an emergency service response. Obviously, those are the ones that are most problematic for us and I imagine for patients and service users...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I have very limited time and I do not want to go too deep into this. I am just making the point that this is an example of what is being relayed to me. Even in Mr. Healy's own report, he acknowledges that, unfortunately, there are patients waiting two hours or more in some circumstances. These are emergency calls. There needs to be a focus on how we deploy personnel and how that is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: No, I am asking Mr. Morton.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: That is not what I asked. I asked if there were any findings against any senior HR personnel to date.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. Healy but we have very limited time. These were very senior HR officials within the NAS. I respect the fact that there is an investigation ongoing but manipulating data, boasting about it, and making derogatory comments about other staff members is absolutely unacceptable and shocking. I will leave it there because I want to get to another issue but I hope that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I am asking Mr. Morton.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I am asking Mr. Morton if he is in receipt of that allowance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I would because he is a public servant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: He is a public servant and I am simply asking if he is in receipt of an allowance. We have to account for allowances that we get. It is a reasonable question to ask. There is an advance paramedic allowance of €10,000, which is to be paid to practising advance practitioners, not people who do not practise. There is an attempt through this roles and responsibilities review to take...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
David Cullinane: I am going to go to Mr. Healy. It is unacceptable that we have a very well-paid public servant coming before an Oireachtas committee who cannot even confirm whether he is in receipt of an allowance. It is not an unreasonable question.