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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: If a person is a member of the Irish Cancer Society, or perhaps is a person who has cancer, none of the data that was presented to us this morning answers the fundamental question as to where additional resources will come from. We learned this morning that from January to July of this year, 4,100 people were waiting more than the recommended 28 days for urgent colonoscopies. What is in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am asking Mr. McCallion about increased funding. I am talking about funding. What matters here is what is new and what additional money will be put in. We know there is a growing population and increased demand. When we already have 4,100 people waiting more than 28 days for a colonoscopy, I want to know what is in the budget for next year that will make a difference. Point to me where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I am talking about new measures and new money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: So, in every other year-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Mr. McCallion came into the committee this morning and reaffirmed the €20 million figure for last year. I have been a health spokesperson since 2020. In 2021, we knew what funding was going into the national cancer strategy and in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. This year, we are being told zero - silence. If Mr. McCallion cannot tell me a figure, I can only surmise that there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: To conclude, I have spoken to very senior officials in the Department of Health and they have told me that the vast majority of the €1.5 billion of additional funding was for existing levels of service. There is very little, if any, new money for new measures. There needs to be a degree of honesty here. There is no point having sessions where we want to talk about additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I cannot accept that if already this year, 4,100 people were waiting more than the recommended 28 days for an urgent colonoscopy. A total of 5,800 women were not seen within the recommended ten days at urgent symptomatic breast disease clinics. Again, this was from January to July. A further 880 people did not have radiation therapy on time. Those people were all waiting within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Was that needed in previous budgets?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Land Development Agency (22 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 218. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE issued a formal S53 Notice to the LDA regarding the Baggot Street Hospital Site in Dublin; if any relevant State bodies formally declined in writing or in any other way to take the property for housing; if there is a public record by way of emails, minutes, memos, written or electronic correspondence of discussions between the HSE, the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (21 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 675. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will review the terms of AIM funding to facilitate appropriate backpay for retention of relevant qualified staff following the successful receipt of advanced levels of AIM support; if she will review the possibility of reimbursing a service provider for additional costs incurred due to exceptional circumstances and delays...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (21 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 676. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average time to decision in AIM funding applications, by funding level, for each year 2021-2025 to date, in tabular form. [56591/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 752. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all measures contained in new funding in Budget 2026, in tabular form. [56607/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 753. To ask the Minister for Health the total existing levels of service provision in Budget 2026. [56608/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 754. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of expansion of services funding in Budget 2026 by subhead, separating existing levels of service funding from new measures funding, in tabular form. [56609/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 755. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of all new measures of funding in Budget 2026, broken down by line item, excluding any existing levels of service funding. [56610/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (21 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 756. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Nayagam risk assessment and review; if she will commit to its full publication; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 812. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels at the neurosurgery department at Beaumont Hospital, by grade; the current vacancies which exist in this service, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57006/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of patients awaiting neurosurgery at the neurosurgery department at Beaumont Hospital; the types of surgeries being awaited and the number of patients that are awaiting these individual surgeries; the current wait times for patients to receive neurosurgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57007/25]

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: The people I give credit to for delivering enhanced cardiac services for Waterford are the people of Waterford, who several times took to the streets in their thousands and had to force this Government, kicking and screaming, to deliver those services.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Simon Harris's record as a Minister and a leader is not one of competence, vision or progress. When I think of Simon Harris, I think of broken promises to children with scoliosis and spina bifida, compounded by false hope and children left in pain. Under Simon Harris's watch, children with chronic conditions and disabilities have been failed and let down time and again. Under Simon Harris'...