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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: A cross-departmental workforce strategy group was established. Are any of the groups represented here today on that strategy group? Have they been asked to participate in that strategy group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Family Carers Ireland has sought representation but has not received clarity about the structure or composition of the group or what its terms of reference are. We can add that to the list of questions for the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses. We had many of the advocacy and representative groups before the committee earlier. I am not sure if the witnesses heard their presentations and the issues they raised, but they were very similar to the issues both trade unions have raised. Obviously, there is a consistency across what trade unions and the advocacy groups are seeking. The representative of Home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Mr. Ginley made a number of points in his opening statement with which I agree. He said that vacancies in the private and not-for-profit sectors are due to high turnover and staff morale within the sector. Is it fair to say that there are problems in recruitment in both the public and private sectors and that the HSE is also struggling to recruit, and that this in turn, as well as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Is there a problem with a difference in pay or no parity between the public and private sectors? Is that one of the key issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Is it fair to say that both unions have concerns about the recruitment process? SIPTU highlighted as a particular issue the national centralisation of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Is that because of a national panel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: I have a question for both of the unions. We had some discussion earlier about the cross-departmental workforce advisory group that was established. Obviously, we hope that advisory group will look at all the issues relating to recruitment, retention, pay, parity between both public and private sector providers in terms of terms and conditions of employment, training and other crucial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: The unions have made submissions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans and funding to expand the Waterford Institute of Technology campus in preparation for the technological university; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to assess medical, nursing and other healthcare profession places in higher education institutions to ensure sufficient graduates in these fields; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the ongoing school secretaries dispute; when the Workplace Relations Commission brokered agreement will be implemented in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 606. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will consider issuing guidance advising medical practitioners that graded exercise therapy is no longer recommended for myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome patients given the recent findings by a body (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5840/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 641. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive care and high dependency unit beds in Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital as of 24 January 2022, in tabular form. [6056/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have visited the foot protection clinic at Tallaght University Hospital in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [6057/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 643. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent clinical nurse specialists in Down syndrome in both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin in each the years of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased. [6058/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent vacant consultant paediatric neurologists at University Hospital Limerick; and when these vacancies will be filled on a permanent basis. [6059/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 645. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time child psychologists for CAMHS in County Leitrim in each of the past three years in tabular form [6060/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies by job title in the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital; the estimated cost of filling each of the vacancies; and when each of the vacancies will be filled on a permanent basis in tabular form. [6061/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: 647. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for recruitment of two additional whole-time equivalent autism spectrum disorder therapist posts for the Sligo-South Donegal children's disability network team. [6062/22]