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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Is Ms O'Neill aware that some nursing homes are using it? I saw a newspaper report about one in Tipperary that is using antigen testing.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: As the Minister for Health, has he been in direct contact with AstraZeneca? Has he spoken to the company? What response did he receive? These are agreements reached through the European Commission with this company. People want to know if the Minister is being hands-on. Has he spoken directly to the company? Has he spoken directly to the European Commission to express the frustration of...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: With respect, I asked if the Minister for Health has contacted AstraZeneca directly. He has acknowledged that there is frustration. He has acknowledged the missed targets. In his view it is the responsibility of AstraZeneca. I accept that the agreement is through the European Commission, but the Minister for Health has responsibility for the supply side. I am asking him a straight...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I ask the Minister about family carers. He knows I feel very strongly about this. I have met hundreds of them and will meet hundreds more today because they are really concerned that they are being left behind. They are really concerned that they are not being valued and respected. They have said time and again they are not looking to take vaccines from anybody else. They are supporting...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I have given the Minister a good run to respond.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: In fairness, we have a very short time, as the Minister knows. Are family carers being considered for cohort 6? I ask the Minister to give a "Yes" or "No" answer to that.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: A colleague of the Minister's, a Fianna Fáil Deputy, responded to a family carer saying that she had a meeting with him and he had informed her, subject to a recommendation coming from the NIAC, that family carers would be in category 6 and that carers should not be as concerned as that particular carer was because there would be movement. Either that is right or it is wrong. We need...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Regarding category 6, a Fianna Fáil Deputy-----

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: That is unacceptable. I asked about-----

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: There is a real frustration out there with the roll-out of the vaccine. The Minister has accepted and acknowledged some of that frustration. That frustration is understandable. Nobody in this Chamber can say that the roll-out so far has been as efficient as we would have wanted it to be. It is falling short of people's reasonable expectations. We have had real problems on the supply...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing composition proposed for each of the mass vaccination centres; the targets for each; the numbers hired for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13643/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the current longest waiting time by number of days across each waiting list by each speciality by each hospital group and by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13647/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 219. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 18 February 2021, if his Department has conducted a workforce census of the entire public and private health and social care system (details supplied); the breakdown or estimates of workers across categories of service providers by profession and speciality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13691/21]

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: We are on the cusp of something really big and exciting for the south east. I have been involved in politics for 20 years. For all those years and more, there have been campaigns for a university for Waterford and the south-east region. In less than a year this can be a reality and can happen. On 1 January next year, we could have a technological university for the south east, operating...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have contracted Covid-19 in nursing homes, other long-term residential care facilities, palliative care settings and in hospital; the mortalities for same, by patient and by worker, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12511/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 764. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation faced by Irish citizens who contracted Covid-19 abroad and have recovered from the virus yet are stranded abroad and unable to return here as they cannot produce a not detected PCR test result due to non-infectious viral remnant; if he has considered the way they may return here after having received...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 806. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) with regard to vaccinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12790/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 857. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the NTPF suspended outpatients list; the number of patients waiting; the length of the wait and speciality of consultant they are waiting to see; if children are included in this suspended outpatients list; the number of children currently on a suspended outpatients list; if all patients have been informed that they have been moved to a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 858. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting on a first outpatients appointment with a specialist consultant in the HSE, to include all hospitals not just children waiting to see a consultant in CHI; the length of the wait; the speciality they are waiting to see; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12973/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 859. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will establish child specific wait lists as per a recommendation of the Ombudsman for Children in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12974/21]