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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I do not dispute that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated elective cancellations in 2023; and the number of elective procedures outsourced to private medicine in public hospitals or private hospitals in the same period. [2055/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: There is lots of information that we unfortunately cannot get through parliamentary questions. I understand the reason, namely, that there is an industrial relations dispute. I respect the right of people to engage in that. The information I am looking for is on the number of hospital-initiated cancellations for elective procedures. As we know, when the pressure is on in emergency...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: We all know the majority of cases are rescheduled. The problem is that people end up waiting longer. By cancelling elective procedures because of pressures in accident and emergency departments, we end up just shifting the problem from one part of the health service to another. I respect the fact that there is an industrial relations dispute, but it is extraordinary that the Minister, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome the surgical hubs, as anybody would, but they are not a substitute for the elective-only hospitals. I share the Minister's frustration but I have also expressed frustration about the slow pace of delivery of elective-only hospitals. We are talking about lots of big infrastructural projects in healthcare. Members of the Joint Committee on Health get frustrated with digital...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: 1. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute inpatient beds in the hospital system; the number of beds he will add this year; and if he has secured funding for the needed and promised 1,500 beds. [2054/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: My first question is in relation to the number of acute in-patient beds currently in the system, the number of additional acute in-patient beds that will be delivered in 2024 and, crucially, the 1,500 rapid-build beds that were much promised and spoken about last year. When will they be delivered? Has the funding been secured? What is the timeframe for the delivery of those beds?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome any and every additional bed put into the system. The Minister spoke of 1,126 beds that were delivered up to January. That money and those beds were committed to in 2020. In fact, they were to be delivered much quicker. It has taken far too long to deliver all those beds. In my view, that goes back to the need to reform how we deliver major healthcare infrastructure. That is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: Of course there are plans. That is the problem I have. The frustration is that the Department and HSE have done a lot of work identifying sites and, as the Minister said, looking at where they want the beds to be provided. I assume that will be in areas where there are pressure points. Much of that work has been done. The frustrating part is that these projects can be delivered very...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: I have visited five hospitals over recent weeks. I have spoken to many managers of hospitals, but also people who work on the front line, including nurses, doctors, consultants and healthcare assistants. Every single hospital is doing its best to deal with very difficult circumstances at the moment with rising infections in the community. Staff are working wonders, but they are burned out...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: -----the beds are not there and the staff are not.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: When will the 1,500 rapid-build beds this Minister promised be delivered-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: -----and how many of those will be delivered in 2024?

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: First, I want to commend the Women's Parliamentary Caucus, and the chair and vice chair, on their work on this comprehensive motion that raises a number of issues across the formal and informal care sectors. I welcome the debate today on behalf of Sinn Féin. I express our support for a rights-based approach to care, and the right to care. I am glad that the Minister of State...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: The Irish people, or at least the vast majority of them, will never be led by extreme voices when it comes to immigration because Irish people are fair and welcoming. We have seen that over the course of many years. Properly managed immigration enriches a society. We see this in our hospitals with nurses, doctors, healthcare assistants and specialists right across the health service coming...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: It is not a point of order.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister of State for all that. I also thank her officials for the work that has gone into this Bill. It is debated annually. It seems to be Groundhog Day in that we have the same discussion on it every year. It has to be done; it is going to be on our annual cycle of Bills. Its purpose is to review the risk equalisation mechanism. As the Minister of State said, it deals...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 7F of Principal Act 2.Section 7F of the Principal Act is amended, in section 4A, by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c): “(c) In respect of each of the following applicable 3 year periods— (i) the 3 year period from 1 January 2020...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: Every single patient and healthcare worker in this State should watch back the Minister's response to our motion here today. What they will see in the Minister's response is that he spent most of his time attacking Sinn Féin. He points to the North which, obviously, Ministers do every time they are under pressure. What the Minister failed to point out is that in the last two elections...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: €1.3 billion is a lot-----