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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 337. To ask the Minister for Health if cardiac patients will be contacted in the early stages of the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine booster programme for vulnerable persons; if heart failure patients will be considered as vulnerable patients given their high-risk category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47235/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (30 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 376. To ask the Minister for Health the total sum spent on, by or through or allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund since its inception by year to date; the number of procedures it facilitated in each year to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47439/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been allocated or will be provided for the recruitment of staff in the second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46873/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give consideration to providing additional cardiologists for the second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; the number of additional cardiologists being sought; and the funding allocated for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46874/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I welcome all of our guests. We had a number of private briefings on this issue and I thank all of those who provided those briefings. This is a new area. I hope we are moving in the right direction to enable the availability of products under licence or prescription. I know it is going to take some time for this new process to bed in. Dr. Nolan, in her opening statement, referred to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Okay. Am I correct that five products are currently under active review?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Of those four products, or perhaps more, that have been placed on Schedule 1, how many will be available this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I understand that. Perhaps Dr. Nolan cannot answer that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I understand that. I am just trying to figure out how many products will be available. People will want to know when any of these products will be available under the programme. I know there is a process and there is a role for the providers but I want to know the number of products that will be available on prescription under this programme. We know that six will be listed in Schedule 1,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Perhaps I will put those questions to Mr. Flanagan. Of those products that have been placed on Schedule 1, and I know there was reference to this issue in his opening statement, does he anticipate that only one will be available this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: One of those products will be available this year. What about next year? Do we know how many we anticipate being available then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I accept that. Mr. Flanagan may be unable to say definitively what might happen next year. We are holding a hearing here today to try to get as much information as possible for the public. Is it fair to say that the best I can tell people if I am asked is that there is potential for six products to be placed on Schedule 1? In the best case scenario, one of them will be available to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Has the Department done any modelling of how many patients are likely to avail of the single product that may become available at some point this year or next year? Has any modelling been done on what the usage is likely to be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I was going to get to that in a few minutes. Epidiolex is important for epilepsy patients. I know it has been licensed and is going through the reimbursement process. I hope it will be successful and make a difference. I am trying to get a sense of how successful this programme will be. If there is only going to be one product this year we do not know how many products will be available...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: That would be a game changer and I accept that. Do we have any indication as to when that medication will complete the reimbursement process? When are we looking for it to be a product that will be reimbursed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: My time is limited. I say again this is something that has to be done. I know there is a process but we need to look at the process. The drug approval process needs to be overhauled. It will go to the drugs group which will have to do its work. As Mr. Flanagan said, it will be sometime next year, and we do not know when, before a decision will be made on it. We are still some time away...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I had intended to respond to the debate by going through the Minister's opening speech and unpicking much of what he said. I will not do so, however, because I want to make a number of other points instead. Many Deputies have spoken tonight, from both Government parties and the Opposition, who obviously care about our health services. I care very deeply about healthcare. It is an issue in...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: —there was an alarming rise in healthcare waiting lists from 461,908 in 2014 to 740,712 in January 2020; —waiting lists have spiralled out of control since January 2020 to 814,345 in August 2021, rising to 907,648 including planned procedures; —210,740 people are waiting more than 18 months on inpatient and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: They are waiting for years.