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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: That is why there needs to be accountability. We cannot forever and a day accept that whatever date we are given, we have no hope it will be delivered on time. Every date given and every target is missed. At some point, the State has to say, "Enough is enough. You have given us September, you have a programme of works. Deploy the resources and deliver this". There needs to be really...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: It will be well into the summer of next year before any patients are seen in that hospital.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: You can never guarantee what inflation or costs will be. They may go down or they may go up in certain areas. Nobody has a crystal ball to predict with 100% accuracy where it will be, but we can estimate and have a fair sense of what it will be. That fair sense was set out in all the asks made by the Department in the bids that were made for budget 2024 and it was made clear by the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Inquiries (30 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: 543. To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding the establishment of the sodium valproate inquiry; the current status of the appointments to the inquiry; when the inquiry will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4063/24]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I want to make a number of quick points. First, I support the moves on MLD, the potential addition of that rare disease in the newborn baby screening programme and the treatment that will be available, and commend all of those who have advocated for it. It is a good-news story. It is important from my perspective to commend the work that has gone into the Bill. We have a lengthy...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: They are in the grouping.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: For clarity purposes, there are a lot of groupings and when we get to a grouping, it is incumbent on all of us to speak to whatever amendments we have in that grouping.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: The only chance we have to speak on these is in the grouping. I have proposed amendment No. 88. I apologise to the Minister as I had to step out of the meeting for a few minutes. With regard to amendment No. 88, I am not sure if it is the same issue the Minister has just said to Deputy Shortall that he might be able to resolve. The current draft allows women to use these embryos in the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: Is that on Report Stage?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I appreciate that maybe there is an element of work there but I believe it was agreed at the briefing session we had with the Minister's officials that there will be a number of sessions. We are getting through it reasonably quickly but there will still be a number of sessions of this committee. In between those sessions we have an ability to put in additional Committee Stage amendments, to...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: In the future. Okay.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: Report Stage. Perfect.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 32: In page 19, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Review of operation of Act 6. (1) The Minister shall, not later than 3 years following the passing of this Act, carry out a review of the operation of this Act, subject to subsection (2). (2) Where sections of this Act have yet to be commenced within the timeframe set out in subsection (1),...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: My amendment is very similar but there is an additional provision in Deputy Shortall's amendment. I will withdraw mine and support her amendment. The thrust of my amendment came from an advocate or colleague from the Independent Living Movement Ireland, Ms Selina Bonnie. Sadly, Selina passed away earlier this year. Essentially, what she was looking for was that we would recognise the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 39: In page 22, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(d) The AHHRA shall produce a format of the AHR information document in both plain English and easy read and shall include information specific and relevant to the lives and needs of disabled people.”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I have the same issue.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: This is a useful time to get clarity on that process in respect of a parental order and what happens from the time of birth until a parental order is granted. We had some lengthy discussions with the Minister's officials on that issue when we got a briefing. One of the issues was the capacity of the courts to make a decision and hear these cases, and what would be a reasonable timeframe for...