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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Is that an understatement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I put it to Dr. Green that the problem is systemic. The problem I have with Mr. Ryan's opening statement and the response I have received so far is that it puts it back onto the individual medical card holder. What the Irish Dental Association has said is a world apart from what Mr. Ryan stated earlier. The association has said the treatment scheme for medical card holders is in an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: The figures I have been given show that from 2015 to 2020 there was a 31% drop-off of dentists from dental treatment service scheme contracts, going from 1,847 to 1,279. That reduction was significant. The Irish Dental Association also said that some of the contracts are what it would call "inactive". I have received many representations from patients who are medical card holders and who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I am going to say to the Cathaoirleach, as I finish because I assume my time is up, that again we are hearing about a promise of a review and a promise of changes. The issues with this scheme are long-standing. The crises that I have been hearing about in respect of public dentistry, orthodontic waiting lists, medical card holders' access to the scheme and the resourcing of the scheme are...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: The bottom line is that it is down to the relationship between the European Commission and AstraZeneca but that shortfall will not be made up. That is what I am hearing. We are not going to get the vaccines that were committed to by AstraZeneca, which is deeply frustrating and deeply disappointing. People want to know that the Minister can get what is under his remit right. I have two...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: My colleague is coming in now.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: We are entering into a critical phase in the fight against Covid. This is the phase in which we can fight back and win. It is the phase in which we can give people hope that, over the next number of months if we start to get things right, we can see the easing of restrictions as we move into the third quarter. For that to happen, however, the State has to get its part right. The...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: The 1.1 million doses are short of what we were expecting. Obviously that is down to the shortfall in the AstraZeneca vaccines. Will the Minister give us a guarantee that the shortfall, which comes to several hundred thousand doses and is quite significant, will be made up in the second quarter?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: The projection we were given some months ago was 1.4 million doses. It was reduced to 1.2 million and then to 1.1 million. That is a bit more than a 100,000 shortfall. Will the vaccine doses that were previously committed to and were part of the advance purchase agreements and which did not arrive in the first quarter of this year be made up in the second quarter or will there be a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to improve the ambulance service in the Dublin area; the effect of the improvements to date on the waiting times for ambulances; his plans to locate an additional ambulance base in the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16065/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the average response time of ambulances in the Dublin area; the number of ambulances ordinarily based at each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16066/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if businesses which were non-trading in March 2020 but began or were due to begin trading in 2020 or 2021 during the pandemic will qualify for the Covid-19 business aid scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13884/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16271/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 412. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16281/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 500. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 166 of 24 February 2021, the way in which an importer can prove the origin of a used car as EU, UK or a third country and that under the rules of origin for a UK originating vehicle that the value of non-originating material in the production of a car does not exceed 45% of the ex-works price of a car; if he is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 505. To ask the Minister for Finance the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15846/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 552. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16276/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 785. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 815. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16278/21]