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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: You are very defensive.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: Can I respond to that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: I was just going to say that people can see it for themselves in the Minister's briefing documents and make up their own minds. As I said-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: I will pick up on the theme of the elective hospitals. I will go first to Mr. O'Connor. Why is it taking so long to progress these? As Deputy Burke said, we have had numerous conversations with the Minister for Health about the need to pick up the pace in relation to elective hospitals. We know the elective hospitals will reform the health services. I use the word "Reform" with a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: We all know it takes time to deliver, but it should not take as long as it is taking. I refer even to the response that I have just gotten in relation to the constraints of the public spending code. We have to call out the feet-dragging on this issue, as far as I can see. There are no excuses as to why these projects are not further down the line, given the commitments that have been made...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: No, answer the question I put about why it has taken so long. Why is it taking so long? What is causing the delays in the delivery of this project? If the Minister is of the view that it should have been done earlier and if he is saying to us that he anticipated that we would have been much further down the line at this point in time, why is it the case that we are not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: I would be amazed if these hospitals were completed, or if the first patients were to be seen in 2027. Given our experience of building hospitals, I would be amazed if the doors were opened by then. We see this with the children's hospital. We have to look at the bandwidth in the system as well, because the national maternity hospital will come very quickly. That will take a lot of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: I have a follow-up question. From Mr. O'Connor's best estimation, when would he estimate that summary care records will be in place? That is the first step. We want to get to a point where we have electronic patient records. What is Mr. O'Connor's best estimation as to what year we can get to that across the health service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: In broad terms, are we talking five, seven or ten years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: That is for what? For summary care?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: For full electronic patient records?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: Is that within a three-year timespan as well, or will that be longer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: Will it be five years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: Regarding this patient app that Mr. O'Connor mentioned in his opening statement, will that include pathways for patients, signposting where people should go? I have travelled around the country a lot over the past year and met a lot of hospital managers, consultants and front-line healthcare staff, and I am conscious they have told me there is a lot more to be done to clearly signpost...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: Will that be linked to the summary care record?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: Okay. I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: This session just reaffirms for many of us that it takes far too long to get things done in healthcare. We have heard about the statutory home care scheme time and again. It was in the programme for Government. It still is not in place. The elective hospitals should be in place by now, or certainly much further down the road, and yet it is going to be 2028 at the earliest. Even then I do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: I am not asking Mr. O'Connor to account for the Minister. The Department sets policy and the HSE implements it. It seems to me the policy was that we were going to build these 1,500 beds. We were told there would be urgency, pace and a rapid build and that 700 of them would be in place in 2024. Can the witnesses tell me if any of those beds will be in place in 2024? Can either Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
David Cullinane: I do not see the planning. I do not see the evidence of the planning.