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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Will it be greater than €90 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Will it be greater-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: -----than €90 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: It is somewhere between €90 million and €100 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Why could Mr. Reid not just have said that then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: We have very limited time and I heard what Mr. Watt has said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: No. I have two other questions and I will come back to Mr. Reid in a moment. We have very limited time and this is my time so I want to put the questions I have prepared. I ask Mr. Watt about the recruitment target within the HSE. There was a target set to recruit 10,000 staff in 2022. In Mr. Watt's view, will we reach that target this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Will 300 people be recruited in the mental health area this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: We had a discussion earlier on the email that I walked Mr. Watt through. Deputy Shortall referred to the wording as well, which was that over time the HSE will seek to expand the remit of hospital groups to include community services. It goes on to say that there are complexities in this, as the geographies of the CHOs and HGs do not align, which of course they do not. They will only align...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 179. To ask the Minister for Health when he will progress elective centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7846/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: The example the Minister gave of a GP in Waterford is very important, and he has listened to what she had to say, but he is the Minister and he can effect change. If I was in his shoes, I would establish a working group on the future of general practice and I would look at a new model of GP and primary care, including the option of directly hired GPs, if that is what we need to do. We...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 60. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the crisis in general practice and general practitioner out-of-hours services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7840/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: I spoke earlier about the crisis we have in GP capacity. There are so many crises in health and I think the Minister will accept we have a real problem in this State. I am getting calls from people who are telling me that for the first time, they are having real difficulties getting an appointment to see a GP. It is not just Covid-related. It is a problem in rural areas but also in parts...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: The Minister's response sets out the scale of the challenge because we are talking about 233 training places. I engaged with the ICGP on this and approximately 30 places over the past two years were not available to allow some of those training places to be taken up. That is one of the problems. We need 2,100 GPs over the next five years to simply stand still. That is on a no-change...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 58. To ask the Minister for Health when the waiting list plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7839/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: I think we all accept that waiting lists are dangerously high. At the weekend, figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, showed almost 900,000 people are on some form of health waiting list. More than 600,000 people are waiting for a hospital appointment, of whom 165,000, including 25,000 children, have been waiting longer than 18 months to see a hospital consultant. We are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: The problem is that all sorts of promises have been made in the past to deal with waiting lists. When the HSE was established and in 2005, the Taoiseach at the time stated he would eliminate waiting lists. In 2015, the Tánaiste, as the then Minister for Health, said that by the summer of 2015 under his watch no patient would wait longer than 18 months. In 2017, the then Minister for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: The Minister has to understand what causes the problem with waiting lists. It is the same thing that causes the problem in our emergency departments. We do not have enough admission beds in hospitals. Two years ago, in budget 2021, the Minister committed to bring 1,147 additional in-patient acute beds into the system. Some 400 of those have not yet been delivered. Hospitals do not have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 91. To ask the Minister for Health when he will establish regional health areas; the form these will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7843/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 828. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and the actions underway to restructure the HSE; the measures that will be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8132/22]