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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with Down syndrome-related arthritis on paediatric rheumatology waiting lists waiting for a MRI; the waiting times by month; the average waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41831/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on paediatric rheumatology waiting lists waiting for treatment by type of treatment; the waiting times by month; the average waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41832/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with Down syndrome-related arthritis on paediatric rheumatology waiting lists waiting for treatment by type of treatment; the waiting times by month; the average waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41833/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ambulance Service (8 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 697. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on private ambulances by hospital for each year since 2000, in tabular form; the number of journeys made in each year; the effective cost per journey annually and on average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41865/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ambulance Service (8 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 698. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on public ambulances by hospital for each year since 2000, in tabular form; the number of journeys made in each year; the effective cost per journey annually and on average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41866/20]

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit and Teachta Paul Murphy for bringing forward this motion which is very important. It is an issue many of us have been campaigning on for a number of months. I have had numerous engagements with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, and have received thousands of emails from nurses and midwives on a range of issues over the past number of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if the pension abatement rule for public sector pensions applies to employment with section 38 and 39 organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40556/20]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I will start with subhead J1, regarding the vaccine and procurement at a European Union level. Page 5 of the briefing document refers to 15.6 million doses of vaccines that we could potentially procure. That is across a range of different pharmaceutical companies and types of vaccines. It states that the estimated cost would be €117.6 million. Is that €117.6 million for 15.6...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: Yes, if the Minister wants to do so. This is important.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: The total cost of all those vaccines will be €117 million. It is unlikely that we will have to purchase all of them. Will we have to pay for them anyway because they are advance purchases? Are we locked in to those purchases and that cost of €117 million? If we did not draw down some of them would it be a lesser amount?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: We are locked in. That is fine. We obviously do not know which vaccine will come first. We see what is happening in Britain and all the different vaccines that are coming on board are very encouraging. Aside from the procurement costs, I imagine that there will be storage, distribution and administration costs as well. Are those factored in? Have we an estimation of what those costs will be?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I appreciate that. Different types of vaccines will have different storage requirements and could involve different costs but we have to plan for that. The expert group will be looking at all of those things. That figure of €117 million, and whatever storage, distribution or administration costs there will be, is still quite small in the context of the overall cost of Covid. Covid...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: It will be free. Does that include not just the vaccine cost itself but the GP costs, pharmacy costs and administration costs? Will everything be provided for?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: Given that we want the vaccine to be rolled out as quickly as possible, in a safe way, I imagine that there would be a hierarchy of who should get it first and so one, similar to the flu vaccine. We will wait and see what the expert group comes back with.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: We will have to wait for NPHET or whichever body does it. Is there a need for additional supports beyond GPs and pharmacies? Would we have pop-up centres to support GPs, for example? GPs have a very difficult job and there is a shortage of GPs in some parts of the country. Are we looking at additional supports to support and add value to the work GPs and pharmacies will do to make sure a...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I will make one final point on the vaccines. I will be at the top of the queue after all those who are at risk and who should be prioritised. I certainly will be taking it myself. There is a need for a public education programme but it must be rolled out by experts, scientists, doctors and nurses because that is who people will listen to. They may listen to politicians but they will...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I will move on to hospital wait times. I raise these questions in the context of subhead J2 and the €200 million that was allocated to fund the winter plan. I had this conversation with the head of the HSE recently. Outpatient wait times are now out of control, if we are to be honest. At the end of October 2015, there 396,000 people waiting to see a consultant. At the end of...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I do not want to be rude, but that is not the question I asked. I know all that. That was well dealt with by the head of the HSE and by the Minister in his budget speech. I asked if we have a target.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: Sláintecare, which we all signed up to, promised that people should not wait any longer than four months. However, despite that, the wait times are going in the wrong direction. If we are going to spend more money, as we should, on our health service and if there is a plan to recruit more staff and open more beds, that should be matched with a target to reduce outpatient and inpatient...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: Is there a target for 2020?