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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 4. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to achieve a maximum of four months waiting time for paediatric spinal surgeries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19774/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: This question relates to spinal surgeries for children with scoliosis and spina bifida. The Minister will be aware that over the past number of months there has been a number of high-profile reports of children and their families having to take the media. Some of those children have been waiting since as far back as 2020 for their spinal surgeries to be done. The families are pleading for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Despite all of the talk that comes from Government and the Minister regarding record investment, record staff, record capacity and all of that, we have children who are waiting. Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the case of Liam Dennehy, who has been left waiting more than five months for his surgery. Unfortunately, his spinal curvature is going in the wrong direction. I also raised,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit funding to 288 additional acute inpatient beds at University Hospital Limerick, UHL; the timeline for the full implementation of the coroner's recommendations following an inquest (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19773/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: This question relates to the mid-west region and University Hospital Limerick. I will start by recognising the loss of Aoife Johnston. I pass on my heartfelt condolences again to her family and her parents. Aoife was one of many patients whom we know were failed in that hospital. As the Minister knows, her family are grieving. We have a real challenge and a real problem in UHL. What...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when he will end the health service recruitment embargo; when the HSE will publish its pay and numbers strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19772/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: This question relates to the health service recruitment embargo, which, by the way, is a Government-imposed recruitment embargo given that in budget 2024, the health service simply did not get the funding it needed. Will the Minister end that embargo and publish the HSE pay and numbers strategy?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We have a growing population and demand in healthcare has increased. When we talked a number of times last year about the deficit that existed in healthcare, the Minister and officials in the Department of Health and the HSE cited two reasons for that, namely, health inflation and increases in demand for services, and the Minister rightly said we were not going to turn away patients....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: It is not a coarse measure; it is the wrong measure. It simply is wrong and I think Deputy Donnelly knows that as Minister for Health. We cannot seek to improve services in the healthcare system if a recruitment embargo is in place. The Minister cited the exemptions, which I accept are in place for final-year graduate nurses and hospital consultants, but all the other posts are not exempt....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We are training these people.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 68. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a new palliative care policy for adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19775/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 58. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in implementing the recommendations of the termination of pregnancy review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19776/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 53. To ask the Minister for Health if he has developed a framework for multi-annual funding of national strategies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19777/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 66. To ask the Minister for Health the current vacancy rates amongst health and social care professions across primary, community, and acute sectors, including relevant Section 38 and 39 organisations; the number of vacancies by profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19779/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: The Government did not have an embargo in place last year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: The Taoiseach should read our budget, so he can see what we proposed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: The Taoiseach is distracting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: It was 7,000 last year

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome all the witnesses. My first question is for Mr. O'Flynn. We met to discuss some of these issues some time ago. I thank him for that engagement and for his attendance today at the committee. Proper regulation is not a lot for which to ask. In fact, a lot of people would be amazed that we do not have proper regulation of dentistry, including a statutory code of conduct, and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Has the council had any contact since the meeting the Minister? Was there any follow-up to suggest that there has been some movement on legislation?