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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I have a lot to get through in the eight minutes and I will start with insourcing. I have read both of the opening statements and listened to what the Minister and Mr. Gloster have said. From Mr. Gloster's opening statement, am I right that what is essentially being said is that control environments are being strengthened, in other words stricter controls around the use of insourcing, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: That is what I am asking, just for the purposes of clarity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Yes, just bear with me just and I will come to the Minister. It is important for us to have clarity, because we have all been lobbied by different consultants and different hospitals. I have spoken to the Minister on it as well in regarding commentary that waiting lists are going up in some hospitals because insourcing has ceased completely. However to put that to one side, I think it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: It is still the policy objective of June of next year but it may well change. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: No, I accept that. That is clear, so thanks for that. I want to ask Mr. Tierney about the national children's hospital, because we had some discussion last week on the elective hospitals and I do not know if I will have time to come back to them. We were told that October of this year would be the final completion date and the handover would be done. Obviously, that is not going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: What is phase 2?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: It is not full completion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: No, I am saying that phase 2, even in and of itself, is not full completion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: When are we looking at full completion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: It seem like it is going around in circles and Groundhog Day. It reminds me of a marathon runner getting to the finishing line and as they get to the end, the finishing line keeps moving. We have had 14 completion dates. We are now hearing that in November we might have early access but it is not the completion or the formal handover. From listening to Mr Tierney, it seems to me that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I have limited time and I accept that and I have always said that there is a responsibility on BAM. However, we are now 38 months and counting beyond the original completion date. Even today, we still do not know when the full, final handover completion date will be, so it is really frustrating. Every single time we come into a committee session, there is still no date that we can have any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: I know the report does not go into detail regarding where it should be, but it is provided as an option. All I am asking-----..

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Sorry, I have very limited time and the Minister has not answered the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: Sorry, with respect, it is my time. It is not that HIQA is not leaning into it but it is simply making the point that to go from a model 2 to model 3 hospital will take time, and the short-term focus should be to get beds in. That is what HIQA has said. I am asking the Minister, because this is an option HIQA has put on the table in a report. The people of the mid-west want to know...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 167. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number and percentage of assessments of need completed within timelines as provided for in regulations, in each quarter for each year 2022 to date in 2025, for each service provider, in tabular form. [52495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 168. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number and percentage of persons with a disability who are in receipt of less than their full allocation of home support at the end of quarter three for each year 2022 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [52496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 169. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number and percentage of persons with a disability who are in receipt of less than their full allocation of personal assistance hours at the end of quarter three for each year 2022 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [52497/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 170. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number and percentage of persons with a disability who are in receipt of less than their full allocation of respite services at the end of quarter three for each year 2022 to date in 2025, in tabular form [52498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 171. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of assessments of needs overdue for completion at the end of quarter three for each year to date, in tabular form [52499/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (1 Oct 2025)

David Cullinane: 173. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons overdue for assessment of need at the end of September in each year 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and the number for each local health area or community healthcare network or children’s disability network team. [52586/25]