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Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 49: In page 56, after line 27, to insert the following: “Report of the Minister 55.(1) Not later than 2 months after receiving a Report of the Patient Safety Council, the Minister shall lay the Report of the Patient Safety Council and a Report of the Minister before the Houses of the Oireachtas in accordance with subsection (2). (2) The Report of the...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I tabled amendment No. 50 because, as all present are aware, the issue of delayed diagnosis was among those at the core of the failures in the context of CervicalCheck. Is the Minister comfortable with delayed diagnosis not being one of the notifiable incidents? For me, it is an obvious area that should be included. I am interested in hearing the Minister's reasons for it not being...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: If I may respond to the Minister, one of the reasons he may not be able to find it anywhere internationally is that there may not have been the same level of incidents in cancer screening and cervical check screening in other countries as occurred in Ireland. Unfortunately, we have direct experience in this State of how women were failed. One of the reasons open disclosure and mandatory...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: What Report Stage amendment is the Minister considering?

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: There would not be a separate item of legislation.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 3: In page 10, after line 39, to insert the following: “Patient Safety Council 4.(1) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passage of this Act, establish for the purposes of this section, a Patient Safety Council, subject to subsection (5). (2) The Patient Safety Council, so established by the Minister pursuant to this Act, shall meet annually, within...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 33 In page 42, line 5, after “functions” to insert the following: “or to aid in the sharing of information for the purposes of population health information and related matters as the Minister may prescribe by regulation under this section”. Amendment No. 33 seeks to permit HIQA and other bodies to use information gathered under the Act...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under children’s disability network teams in circumstances in which the child or their family has not been assigned a key contact broken down by CHO and the length of time waiting for a key contact to be assigned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13154/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 197. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for general population Covid-19 booster vaccines and annual boosters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13258/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of current vacant posts in maternity departments in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022 by department and profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13275/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in Covid-19 testing and tracing for each month in 2021 and in January and February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13276/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community health networks established; the current staffing compliment in each network; the number of vacancies in each network by network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13277/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 202. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical specialist teams for older persons that have been established; the current staffing complement for each team; the number of vacancies in each team by team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13278/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical specialist teams for chronic disease established; the current staffing complement for each team; the number of vacancies in each team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13279/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occasions since 2013 to date on which there was no applicant for a hospital consultant post; the location and specialty of the post, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13402/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant or temporarily, locum or agency filled consultant posts; the length of time since these posts were filled on a permanent basis or were created; the number of recruitment campaigns of which these posts were the subject; the number of applicants to these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13403/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of minor injury units in hospitals across the State; the hours each minor injuries unit operate; the number of patients treated in each unit in each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13416/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 211. To ask the Minister for Health the amount raised by charges in minor injury units in each of the yeas 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022 by unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13417/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 212. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of abolishing the charge for accessing minor injury units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13418/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the fee or cost for a patient accessing a minor injuries unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13419/22]