Results 961-980 of 26,394 for speaker:David Cullinane

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: If the funding is not provided, we cannot recruit. This is exactly why we are in the situation we are in. There is no clarity yet on when two of the teams that were funded will be up and running. Maybe a straight answer can be given to that question. The clock will only start to tick when the funding is made available for the other two teams. I am not the person who made the commitment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: I will leave it at this but it seems these teams are, again, victims of a recruitment pause. Whatever about the strategy on how staff are recruited into the health service, this is a casualty of it. It is casualty of mismanagement that a promise and a commitment were given that six teams would be in place but here we are still not clear as to when the six teams will be up and running. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: There is "being looked at" and there is actually being ring-fenced. Is it certain that those staff will be recruited and part of those numbers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster can only defend what he puts out there. Mr. Gloster had the meeting with the Minister of State, and then the Minister of State went out and said these were guaranteed. I am asking a question around posts I have been told are guaranteed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster is telling me that, but I was not the one who made the commitment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: I asked a question earlier in regard to spending being ahead of profile and Mr. Gloster said it was probably greater than the €500 million we were told about the last time he was before the committee. Will he provide the committee with a briefing on the following point, if possible? To much fanfare, the Minister announced the establishment of a group to look at achieving savings...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: To clarify, Mr. Gloster said there was correspondence that has gone or will go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster might come back to me by email to clarify that they have got it. I will be asked by the public whether this has been approved and whether the hospital has been given this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: It is approved and they have been given the green light. Whether they got that letter or not, they know that they can start recruiting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: Mr. Canavan might have the answer to a separate question. A number of my colleagues in Sligo were in contact with me recently about the pain management service in Sligo that has apparently ceased operating. Councillor Thomas Healy was one of those who was in contact with me. I know local representatives have been raising this with Mr. Canavan. I know, from my experience in the south east,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: It is a recruitment issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: I will come back to the issue of neurology services, which is a matter of frustration for us. I do not expect Mr. Gloster to micromanage every staff member who is recruited to the health service. However, when the Oireachtas health committee puts a particular focus on a major issue like neurology services, when we have had not one but several meetings where we discussed the roll-out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Gloster.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Airport Policy (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: In 2019, as an Oireachtas Member, I attended a meeting with the then Minister for transport, Shane Ross. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, was at that meeting as well. Mr. Ross essentially at that point signed off on State investment for Waterford Airport. We were told at that meeting - and I had been of the view for some time - that the airport had reached a crossroads and either the...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: The culture of corporate rip-off is alive and well. The Government has allowed itself to become a doormat for companies making eye-watering profits of billions of euro at a time when people are struggling to make ends meet. Inflation has a crippling impact on families on the breadline but the Minister and the Government are not interested in picking a fight with the corporates who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: The witnesses are welcome. I will start with Ms Larthwell. The programme for Government committed to a statutory home care scheme, the essence of which was a legal right to access home care. Does this Bill deliver a statutory right to home care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: This Bill is largely about licensing and regulations. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: No, I am just asking the question. The Bill is almost exclusively about licensing and regulations. It does not cover affordability, access, a statutory right or any of those issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: When will we see a Bill or is one being worked on at the moment that would deliver a statutory right to home care?