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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 553. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young adults attending University Hospital Waterford with type 1 diabetes using insulin pump therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44574/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who are waiting on a first appointment to the outpatients diabetes clinic in University Hospital Waterford; the number who are waiting over 12, 24 and 36 months, 4 and 5 years, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44575/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 555. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that required in-hospital treatment for diabetes related foot complications and lower limb loss in each of the years 2014 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form by CHO and hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44576/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (21 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 670. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45236/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 205. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter raised in correspondence in relation to children’s choirs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44310/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cross-Border Co-operation (16 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 304. To ask the Minister for Health if Irish citizens can access public funding, either on a standard or exceptional basis for medical treatment outside of the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK; the authority that authorises same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44392/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health Services (16 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: 305. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department can identify the Irish surgeons who are available to fully and safely remove mesh implants; if the HSE will update its website accordingly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44393/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Before the recess, the Dáil unanimously passed a motion calling for a permanent solution for our student nurses and midwives and for the publication of the independent report looking into the issue. My understanding is that the report could be with the Minister. If it is, it needs to be published. Those very same student nurses and midwives are going to be starting their placements...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Some €300 million was not spent.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: You promised 15,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Not delivered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses. I thank them for all the work they have done in the past 18 months, which has been nothing short of phenomenal. Well done to the CMO and his team and Professor Butler and her team on all their work. I will start with the final paragraph of Dr. Holohan's opening statement which grabbed some headlines and merits some clarification. We all accept that there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: If I could just come back in, can I take it from Dr. Holohan's response that in his view we are still on track for the 22 October date for the ending of restrictions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: Okay. I will return to the presentation Dr. Holohan gave to members of the committee some months ago when the Delta variant first arrived? As he will recall, there were a number of projections. The scenarios were "optimistic", "central 1", "central 2" and "pessimistic". I am looking at the optimistic scenario, which was 81,000 cases. Central scenario 1 was 187,000 cases and central...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I thank Professor Nolan for that. I will follow on from that point because it segues into my next question on test and trace. There has been some public commentary with regard to children, especially in schools. In his opening statement, the CMO said that "we have noted an increase in testing rates and confirmed cases in children aged five to 12 years". There was also some public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: The chief clinical director of the HSE has said several times and I agree with him, and Dr. Holohan said himself in his overall remarks that as the harm associated with Covid-19 has significantly reduced, we must look at the benefits of what we are doing in terms of self-isolation requirements versus the costs that might have on children. Obviously, we have to keep children safe, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: We can expect some change then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I thank Dr. Holohan for that. I have one question for Professor Butler but for clarity, we can expect or anticipate some change in terms of the self-isolation criteria for children and maybe for others as well who are asymptomatic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I thank Dr. Holohan very much. I hope that in the next weeks and months, perhaps when Dr. Holohan next appears before the committee, members will be able to talk to him about wider healthcare issues and non-Covid healthcare issues. That will be important. I have one final question for Professor Butler. I understand the need to make sure those in nursing homes, those aged over 80 and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

David Cullinane: I thank Professor Butler and all the witnesses for their work over the past 18 months.