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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: Sorry to interrupt but I need to know if NPHET or Professor Nolan has done modelling for various stages in the vaccination programme and linked that to easing restrictions. Has NPHET, for example, looked at what is possible if we get 50% of the adult population vaccinated, if we get the medically vulnerable and all those over 55 vaccinated and so on? Is such modelling done and is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I am sorry to interrupt but time is short. I am not specifically talking about percentages of the population vaccinated. I am talking about whether it is by age cohort or by people with underlying conditions. Are there benchmarks, targets or staging posts that NPHET believes will leave us in a better position if we reach them? Dr. Glynn was talking about the possibility of easing more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I have that and thank Professor Nolan. I have one last question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I have one last question. The witnesses talked earlier about their concerns around new variants. How important is it that we continue with traveller checks and mandatory quarantine? Where does NPHET stand on that in the context of its concerns about new variants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. Hourihan and the other representatives of the Irish Dental Association. I will start by quoting a representative of the HSE who was before the committee last week. In the HSE's opening statement, the DTSS was referenced. I refer to one specific paragraph which stated: The HSE is aware that some medical card holders have experienced difficulties in accessing treatment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: Mr. Hourihan has been involved with the association for some time. In his view, is this an unprecedented crisis? Are we talking about a full-blown resourcing crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I will home in on some questions regarding that decline. Funding declined by 31% between 2015 and 2020 but the number of dentists contracted has also declined substantially from 1,847 to 1,279. How many fewer dentists are signed up to the contract now than when we first started to see the decline a number of years ago? How stark is the number?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: Is it possible there are some inactive contracts? Is that where some of the confusion lies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: We need to get to the exact figure because we were quoted a much lower figure by the Department and the HSE when they were before us last week. We need an accurate figure from them on the number of dentists signed up to the contract and how many are active. That would be important information to have. We have a shortfall in funding, dentists who are leaving in unprecedented numbers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: Before Mr. Hourihan brings his colleague in, I want to reinforce some of what I said with data I received in reply to parliamentary questions on orthodontic and dental waiting times in the public system. It is also a significant issue. For example, more than 104 children with special needs have been waiting for more than a year. Some 1,500 children are on the waiting list for dental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I apologise, but I only have a short time remaining and I want to make a final comment before Mr. Hourihan's colleague contributes. In the health services generally, a great deal of catch-up care will be needed, given that a considerable amount of non-essential care was paused. In dental and orthodontic services in the public system, there was a pause for a significant number of months....

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with Deputy Ó Laoghaire. I commend the whistleblower, Shane Corr, on coming forward and "RTÉ Investigates" on airing the programme, bringing very distressing information into the public domain and making us aware of a practice that has scandalised and horrified the family members of children with autism and special needs. When I watched the programme last...

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I gave the Minister plenty of time.

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: The Minister is taking us for fools here.

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I will take the Minister up on that offer, but I ask him to stick to answering the questions. I have limited time and the clock is ticking. People want answers to the questions I am putting. The question I put was how many doses of the vaccines are due to arrive in the month of April. It is a straight question and I am looking for a simple answer to it. I will take the Minister up on the...

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: My question is for the month of April. This is the third time I have asked. For the month of April, what is the anticipated delivery?

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: Unfortunately, we all get a front row seat at the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Party Parliamentary meetings. That is the nature of those parties' meetings. It was reported that the Minister and Taoiseach stated the figure would be 860,000. The Minister is now saying it will be 1 million. This is what confuses people. He then says the figures cannot be 100% accurate. People need to...

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: With respect, it is not about jumping up and down. We accept that they are estimated figures and if they change, they change. However, when they are changing overnight and different figures are being given at different meetings in different settings for different reasons, it does not inspire confidence. There is another question I want to put to the Minister now and he can answer it...

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: The Minister might answer that first.

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with Deputy Quinlivan. The Minister stated that he is looking for help from all Members of this House. He has got that help. We have come in here, week in and week out, offering solutions and putting forward ideas. We have asked people time and again to abide by the public health advice. We have discouraged unsafe activity and will do so again. People need help from...