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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am asking Mr. Morton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am asking Mr. Morton if he is in receipt of that allowance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I would because he is a public servant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: He is a public servant and I am simply asking if he is in receipt of an allowance. We have to account for allowances that we get. It is a reasonable question to ask. There is an advance paramedic allowance of €10,000, which is to be paid to practising advance practitioners, not people who do not practise. There is an attempt through this roles and responsibilities review to take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am going to go to Mr. Healy. It is unacceptable that we have a very well-paid public servant coming before an Oireachtas committee who cannot even confirm whether he is in receipt of an allowance. It is not an unreasonable question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I do not believe it is inappropriate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: It is a reasonable question. I am asking Mr. Healy to answer it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: This is not about salary scales. These are allowances and we are entitled to know who is in receipt of taxpayer-funded allowances, particularly those in senior management.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I will finish by saying, very forcibly, that it is unacceptable that we have a very senior director in the NAS who is unprepared today to say whether he is in receipt of an allowance. That speaks for itself and the people watching these proceedings will draw their own conclusions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I wish to come back to the point that was made about some of those emergency calls taking two hours for a response time. That is obviously very concerning. I put a number of questions to Mr. Healy earlier, but we had limited time and it was difficult to get into the teeth of it. What are the reasons that would be the case and that in some instances people would be waiting two hours in what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: We hear from hospital managers that there are ambulances parked outside hospitals waiting to transfer patients, which they cannot do because the beds are not there, is that a problem? Is it one of the contributing factors as to why there is a longer turnaround?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Does Mr. Healy accept that two-hour wait times are unacceptable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I wish to address the helicopter medical emergency service and issues relating to doctors being on air ambulance services. I have received representations from a number of personnel who work in these areas. There is a concern regarding the HEM service where there is one advanced paramedic, if I am correct, on the helicopter. The people who work in the service and who contacted me say they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Is it not true, and this is information I have been given, that this year there was what was called a "physician onboard study", which recommended there be two advanced life-support practitioners on both helicopters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Is it possible that could change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: In relation to doctors providing pre-hospital care on air ambulances, that is something that was in the public domain as Mr. Healy knows.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I say that because it obviously makes sense to me as layperson that doctors on helicopters can attend very bad accidents. The air ambulance service itself is critically important. We have people who work in that space who tell us it is not fit for purpose. They talk about risk to patients and to themselves. I am conscious Mr. Healy is saying there will be review and we will see what comes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I have one final comment before I go. The reason I stepped out was that I contacted a senior official in the Department of Health to ask if it was reasonable and fair to ask a senior member of the National Ambulance Service if they were in receipt of an allowance. I was told it was. It is not just fair but it is straightforward that if a public servant is in receipt of an allowance it is...

Community Pharmacy Agreement: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I welcome the agreement. The Minister's predecessor admitted a number of years ago that the engagement with the Irish Pharmacy Union was not what it should have been and the State was not making the best use of community pharmacies. A number of years ago, I published a very comprehensive plan that set out a lot of what is in this agreement, and more, in relation to what we could do. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 101. To ask the Minister for Health her intentions regarding the provision of comprehensive endometriosis services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52532/25]