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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: I have no problem with Deputy Shortall speaking first. I will wait.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: Ms Power's opening statement was very hard-hitting and rightly so. She said that the tobacco industry kills one in two of its customers. That is very hard-hitting but obviously true. That is why we are here in regard to this Bill and the pre-legislative scrutiny to look at how we can make this Bill better. I accept what both organisations are saying. They welcome the legislation in as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: Very good. I thank Ms Power for that response. On that issue, Mr. Macey accepts, and it is a sensible approach, that this issue might be best dealt with in separate amending legislation. He referred to it as a complex age of sale item of legislation that might need to be done separately. Is that the proposal he would make? While he is flagging this legislation, he does not necessarily...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: That is sensible as I would have some questions about increasing the legal age. It is more about teasing some of this out and looking at the international best practice and research. It would be sensible for the committee in making its recommendations on foot of the prelegislative scrutiny process to recommend that this measure would be examined separately and perhaps we, as a committee,...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: It is a sad reflection on our health service that many people cannot access a GP. As the Minister knows, in some parts of Dublin and in some rural areas, people cannot register with a GP because of a shortage. We are now seeing waiting lists and waiting times for GPs. In the past, people could contact their GP and get an appointment that day or within two or three days. That is now being...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the National Ambulance Service (NAS) and emergency services are at crisis point, with health care professionals expecting a very challenging winter with insufficient ambulance capacity; — response time standards state that life-threatening callouts should be responded to within 19 minutes in 81.5 per cent of cases;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available for those whose industries are open but remain heavily affected by Covid-19; if measures are being considered to support front-line workers who are aged over 60 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55491/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 494. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the support for Irish survivors of thalidomide Bill; when it will be available for pre-legislative scrutiny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55516/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 589. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of an association (details supplied) to address major concerns regarding the support for Irish survivors of thalidomide Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55809/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the number of places for oral immunotherapy for children; the locations of each facility in which the treatment is dispensed; his plans to expand the number of places for children; the location in which treatment is dispensed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55768/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant ophthalmologist attached to St. James's Hospital in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55769/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 572. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in CHO 9 in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55770/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 573. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that visited the gastroenterology outpatients clinic in Beaumont Hospital in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55771/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 574. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent oncological dieticians operating in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; the area of operation of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55772/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 575. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent clinical nurse specialist in paediatric neurodevelopment employed by the HSE in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; the hospitals in which these clinical nurse specialists are located; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55773/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 576. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels at the cardiac services division of Cork University Hospital in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55774/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 577. To ask the Minister for Health the capital expenditure projects planned for Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55775/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 578. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of each antenatal and maternity clinic in County Leitrim in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55776/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 579. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of increasing the opening hours at the urgent care centre at Children’s Health Ireland. Connolly from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday to 8am to 9pm seven days per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55777/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: 580. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of recruiting 12 additional full-time ICU nurses for St. Vincent's University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55778/21]