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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome our witnesses. I will start by giving a shout out to the Solas cancer support centre in Waterford in my constituency for the great work they do. I visited the centre last year in advance of the budget and the ask then was the same as is being asked now and which is the purpose of the meeting. I was blown away by the range of services provided. It struck me coming away from that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

David Cullinane: My question is more about whether the centres have seen a drop-off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Over a reasonable time period, be it three or five years or longer, have the centres seen a drop-off in the level of fundraising or money coming in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Is it the precarious nature of it? I am trying to capture what is the big problem. As I hear the witnesses today, sustainability of funding is really important and the centres cannot plan for 2024 and 2025 if they are dependent on funding that may or may not happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

David Cullinane: My time is up. I thank the witnesses for the work they do. It is fantastic.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (29 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the level of expenditure on the National Treatment Purchase Fund’s commissioning of diagnostic testing to date, by month, since commencement, in tabular form; the level of expenditure per scan type; his intentions regarding current and future funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24209/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (28 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) relating to the payment of the increased cost of business grant where rates are paid via a landlord; if he will permit payment in such situations; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24032/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 473. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided to community drug and alcohol and rehabilitation services in Waterford in 2019 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form. [23966/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the level of psychiatry staffing in each emergency department; the number of existing posts, by staff grade; the number of vacancies; and the number of consultant psychiatrists who should be in place in each emergency department, in tabular form. [23981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 479. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to providing access to the medical cannabis access programme for cerebral palsy; if so, the outcome of that consideration; the list of conditions that were or are being considered for addition; the status of those considerations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23983/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on progress in tackling the backlog at University Hospital Waterford histopathology laboratory (details supplied); the current number of patients waiting for test results; and the average length of wait. [23984/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (28 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 488. To ask the Minister for Health if new patients are being accepted at the STI clinic in University Hospital Waterford; if not, the reason; the extent of waiting lists, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24029/24]

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I thank Deputy Shortall and the Social Democrats for moving the motion in the first instance. I do not know if the authors of the motion received any prior notice that the senior Minister would not be here but it is not acceptable that the Minister is not. There may be a reason for it but I heard the Chair himself raise this issue this morning-----

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: -----with regard to senior Ministers not coming in. Particularly when people are putting forward very substantial motions, the senior Minister should be here. That is what Opposition time is for. Time and again we are seeing it where a junior Minister is sent in and senior Ministers seem to think it is not their role, but it is. It is their job to be here and to answer the questions that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome our witnesses. I will start with the working hours for junior doctors. We have been talking about this issue for a long time. As we know, there was a report and it made recommendations but it is still a big issue. I know it is in the opening statement but will the witnesses clarify again that doctors working beyond the 48 hours is illegal in that it breaches the Act? The first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: That is a failure of the political system. Doctors cannot be blamed for that. We are asking them to work long hours in contravention of their rights. There is a question of moral injury and pressure being put on doctors to come in to work additional hours because we do not have capacity and, now, because of the recruitment embargo. I will come to that in a minute. It is self-evident...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: This, to me, is astounding. Essentially, what has happened is that the HSE and, I suppose, the Government have decided that, rather than fixing the problem, they will just pay for it. I would imagine the payment was meant to be some sort of punitive measure to penalise hospitals-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: -----but it seems the HSE is saying it will write a cheque rather than deal with the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

David Cullinane: There is just so much we could say about this but it is well covered in the opening statement from the IMO representatives. We have been dealing with this issue for far too long. There needs to be political will to deliver on it because we cannot just continue to ask junior doctors to work the hours they are working, with all the risks entailed for them and their patients. I would imagine...