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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?

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 was in the programme for Government. Bearing in mind that we are four years in and Ms Larthwell stated a Bill is in development, how advanced is it?

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

David Cullinane: We are not even at a stage of a Bill being developed to deliver a statutory home care scheme or a statutory entitlement. The essence and core of the commitment given in the programme for Government was a statutory right to access care. Many of us supported Sláintecare and the right care in the right place at the right time. One of the core tenets of that was to deliver a statutory...

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, it is very clear. It was not wide-ranging. It is 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: If it is a staged process, it is painfully slow. That is not what was envisaged as the first step. We were promised that the regulations would be developed in tandem with the other elements. A number of modules were promised that relate to the delivery of the statutory home care scheme. They are a statutory entitlement and there does not seem to be any development of that, apart from...

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 is a matter for the Government as opposed to the witnesses but, at the same time, the programme for Government commitment is clear and here we are four years on. I want to deal with some elements and touch on a number of other issues. Why are personal assistance services not part of this? What is the difference between personal assistance services and home care services? I thought...

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

David Cullinane: I think people who provide personal assistance services would disagree that they do not have a role to play in the home. There are a number of organisations that have written to us and lobbied us as members of this committee asking us to ask that very question. Why has the regulation of personal assistance hours or services been excluded? We are being asked to ask that question of the...

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

David Cullinane: As this Bill progresses, I imagine we will get more correspondence from people who are listening in to this session. I would say that many groups that have lobbied us on this issue will not be satisfied by those responses. However, we will take that up with the Minister whenever we get to the point of having a Bill to discuss with him. Is the fixed price authorisation scheme under the...

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

David Cullinane: There was an offer made in May of last year – an hourly rate. Is that correct?

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

David Cullinane: What was the hourly rate that was offered?