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Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: The Minister will be aware I tabled the same amendments on Committee Stage. I withdrew them in recognition of the clarity he brought and the logic of his argument at the time. I still think I was right to withdraw them at that point. However, on reflection, I welcome that an Teachta Smith has tabled similar amendments with the same intent. From memory, the Minister's argument was that An...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: We got caught out last week. That is why we are here now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: Sometimes evidence we hear presented before this committee stops us in our tracks and I think this is one of those days. I thank Ms Phoenix, Mr. Hughes, Ms Staunton, Mr. Staunton, Ms O'Mahony and Mr. Callaghan for their evidence today. It is important. As Mr. Staunton said, it should not be left to the families to do all the heavy lifting in terms of advocacy work and trying to seek...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome our witnesses. Dr. Henry heard the testimony and evidence of the advocate groups and family members earlier. I am sure he was as taken by it as I was. Given the nature of the joint committee, we hear an awful lot, but as I said in my opening remarks, it is very rare one gets stopped in one’s tracks. This morning was one of those occasions. I want to go into what we can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: Then the follow-up questions are: what can be done and how? That is what we want to do. I did not attend the sepsis conference. A member of my staff was. I was due to attend but I was called away. A few issues that came up at the conference were fed back to me. One was that the sepsis programme needs a publicly funded research nurse in every hospital. Is that a priority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I will come to those. I am asking about this one. I want to go through these. I know there are other priorities. Is having a publicly funded research nurse in every hospital possible and is it on the agenda?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: Okay. Questions were raised about the effectiveness of the mandatory national guidelines and whether they need to be reviewed. Certainly, the feedback from the conference was that they do. Is that a priority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: Okay. I thank Dr. O'Dwyer. Dr. Henry mentioned the need for greater awareness among the public and also among healthcare professionals. That was also one of the requests. Is there a national sepsis strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: A plan is different from a strategy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: What year does Dr. Healy expect it to be in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: We have to move on quickly from words like "on the agenda" and get to a point where things are in place. I have heard about several conferences on sepsis. We hear it is "on the agenda" and "it will happen" and so on, but we need to get to a place where it is happening. How many whole-time equivalent staff are working on the current plan whose job is only to deal with the sepsis plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I understand that but the question I asked is how many staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I will make a point to the Chair. All members have accepted that we want to make this one of the key priorities for this committee. We need to have quarterly meetings with Dr. Henry in private. We can hold them at the Department of Health if necessary or at the HSE offices, whatever suits. The first part has to be to get a comprehensive note from Dr. Henry about where the current plan is,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: That is additional.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: It does not include the ELS.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: The HSE said it is not adequate. Do not take my word for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I did not gloss over it at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: The Minister can raise issues about Sinn Féin all he likes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: He did not include that we would have provided for existing levels of service above that €1.5 billion. First of all, the Minister is wrong, as usual. People do not need bluster. I want the Minister to talk to patients and healthcare professionals, the older person or grandmother lying on a hospital trolley, the person with scoliosis waiting for a procedure or the child waiting for a...