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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: What are the implications then, from an operational perspective, for the transition from CHI and its board into the HSE? What difference will it make?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Okay. I move to the capital plan and will start with Mr. Gloster. I contacted him a year ago privately - and it was a private conversation - about my concerns about the elective hospitals. I had got word at first hand, some from within the Department and some from within the HSE, that there was serious pushback from consultants about the elective-only hospitals. I think we can all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: I know that. I am asking about the money, because it will not take until 2030 to get the planning. I am sorry, but my question is really direct and I have only two minutes left. With the capital allocation available the Department has to build the maternity hospital. It is not going to deliver anywhere near those 3,000 beds the previous Minister for Health talked about, so that is out the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: That is not the question I asked. The question I asked is has the Department got the funding to move beyond what Mr. Tierney has said about planning within that capital envelope.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: The Department has the funding for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: To what extent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Does the Department have the money for the 3,000 beds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: What about the 3,000 beds? The beds that were announced, does Mr. Tierney have the money for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Policy does not build a hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: What builds a hospital is funding, bricks and mortar and the ability to do it. I am going to finish on my opinion, which is the Department does not have the money for it. We know it needs it and that it asked for billions more in capital expenditure but with all the other requirements that are there in terms of regulatory requirements, the maternity hospital and finishing the children's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Would Mr. Gloster have specifically discussed subsuming-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Services (23 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: The Minister of State might be familiar with the phrases "Build it and they will come" and "Show us the money". He stated that it is up to the airport "to demonstrate that sufficient demand and industry commitment [should] exist to facilitate regular scheduled passenger services". That can only be determined when there is a runway. If there is no runway, no airline will come in. At the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Services (23 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: I have lost count of how many times Waterford Airport has been raised over the last number of years in the Dáil Chamber. I have certainly raised it dozens of times. A meeting took place between Government representatives, the Minister for Transport and members of the board of Waterford Airport a number of months ago. There was a lot of frustration in Waterford following that meeting...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: The school transport system is simply not up to standard. As previous speakers said, every year in the first week or second week back after the summer recess we are dealing with the same issues. In fact, all of our constituency offices are inundated in the months of July and August, but particularly August, with parents who are frustrated with the eligibility criteria, the concessionary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 581. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HIQA review of Midwest urgent and emergency care. [49584/25]

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Earlier this year, Deputy Conor McGuinness and I met with parents of children with disabilities from Waterford city and county. At the time, those parents were heartbroken because they had no idea if their child would have an appropriate class place. Many of them were sent on a wild goose chase, as they were told they had to contact schools themselves. In some instances, they had to...

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: I was at an event about mental health a number of years ago where a presentation was given by an expert in the field who works on the ground. The person put up a photograph of a car that was held up, not by four wheels, but by plans and policy documents. She was illustrating the point that policy documents and plans are not in short supply. We have any number of them in mental health and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the potential funding options available to a Waterford school for a project (details supplied). [49017/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (17 Sep 2025)

David Cullinane: 1109. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will ensure that a Montessori operating an inclusive model of education and care (details supplied) is not forced to reduce services due to funding constraints; and that this Montessori is not forced to abandon an inclusive model of care in favour of mainstream or special status which would exclude some of the children...