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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We support reform of HIQA’s enforcement powers. HIQA’s current enforcement powers are blunt and we have been saying that for some time. We will support the Bill but the Government has been far too limited in its approach. I met HIQA officials on a number of occasions in recent years on many of these matters. The Bill provides for compliance notices for the Chief Inspector of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 512. To ask the Minister for Health the average time spent waiting by a patient who was admitted on a trolley between a bed being allocated for them and that bed becoming available for the patient and the patient moved into that bed, by hospital, in tabular form. [20233/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 513. To ask the Minister for Health the average time spent waiting by a patient at St. James’s University Hospital who was admitted on a trolley between a bed being allocated for them and that bed becoming available for the patient and the patient moved into that bed, in tabular form. [20234/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 514. To ask the Minister for Health the average time spent waiting by a patient at St. Vincent’s University Hospital who was admitted on a trolley between a bed being allocated for them and that bed becoming available for the patient and the patient moved into that bed, in tabular form. [20235/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 515. To ask the Minister for Health the average time spent waiting by a patient at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital who was admitted on a trolley between a bed being allocated for them and that bed becoming available for the patient and the patient moved into that bed, in tabular form. [20236/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 547. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the appointment of a new CEO of Children’s Health Ireland; the steps and stages involved in the process; the anticipated timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20378/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 629. To ask the Minister for Health the awards made following a tender process to external non-medical consultants, by firm, by the Health Service Executive, in 2016 to 2023 and to date in 2024, inclusive, in tabular form; the purpose and a brief description of the awards; the value of the awards and the total amounts paid; the timeline or timeframe of the contracts; and the desired or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 630. To ask the Minister for Health the awards made without a tender process to external non-medical consultants, by firm, by the Health Service Executive, in 2016 to 2023 and to date in 2024, inclusive, in tabular form; the purpose and a brief description of the awards; the value of the awards and the total amounts paid; the timeline or timeframe of the contracts; and the desired or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 631. To ask the Minister for Health the awards made following a tender process to external non-medical consultants, by firm, by his Department in 2016 to 2023 and to date in 2024, inclusive, in tabular form; the purpose and a brief description of the awards; the value of the awards and the total amounts paid; the timeline or timeframe of the contracts; and the desired or completed output....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the awards made without a tender process to external non-medical consultants, by firm, by his Department in 2016 to 2023 and to date in 2024, inclusive, in tabular form; the purpose and a brief description of the awards; the value of the awards and the total amounts paid; the timeline or timeframe of the contracts; and the desired or completed output. [20820/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 633. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in tabular form, all HSE expenditure on outside firms, including outsourcing of care, assessments, recruitment, diagnostics, legal, professional and consultancy fees and any other service delivered for the HSE by a non-HSE organisation (not including Section 38 organisations) for the years 2016 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [20821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 634. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in tabular form, all expenditure by each Section 38 organisation on outside firms, including outsourcing of care, assessments, recruitment, diagnostics, legal, professional and consultancy fees and any other service delivered for that organisation by a non-public organisation for the years 2016 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [20822/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We were asked to email in, so I emailed in a couple of issues and they were covered, to be fair. Maybe there was an oversight somewhere along the way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses. I will start with Mr. Watt. I have a lot of questions and may not get through them all. First, I am looking for a straight answer and a figure, if he has it, on spending for the first four months of 2024. Is it at profile, behind profile or ahead of profile? Is there a figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: That is €500 million in additional spend. What is driving that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We were told by the Minister there was a performance management review. There is a structure in place to achieve efficiencies. Mr. Watt spoke of productivity and savings, so people will be surprised. Figures have been put in the public domain concerning savings that will be achieved in agency spend. A recruitment embargo is in place, and I do not agree with that. There were savings to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: A less diplomatic answer would be the health service did not get the budget it needed for 2024 and we are now seeing the fruits of that. Four months in and it is already €500 million short of profile. Is it at this point a racing certainty there will be significant Supplementary Estimates in health by the end of the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Will it be close to €1 billion or more than €1 billion? What is the estimated figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I know that.