Results 181-200 of 27,078 for speaker:David Cullinane

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (8 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 763. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new rare disease strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37134/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (8 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 866. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the mini-TT 380 copper coil is not included in the free contraceptive scheme; if this coil has not been included as a reimbursable items due to a clinical concern or due to the lack of an application from the supplier or for another reason; if so the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37758/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (8 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 891. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet a group representing parents (details supplied) affected by the hip dysplasia scandal at Children’s Health Ireland; if she will issue a detailed response to their correspondence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37902/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 892. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people covered by medical cards in each year 2011 to 2025, in tabular form. [37931/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 893. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people covered by GP visit cards in each year 2011 to 2025, in tabular form. [37932/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (8 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 894. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure the use of the Crumlin Hospital site for key worker housing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37934/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (8 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 895. To ask the Minister for Health the details of equipment and machinery, such as CT and MRI scanners and linear accelerator machines, which have reached their end of life, across each statutory and section 38 hospital, in tabular form; to be requested from each hospital as required; the date at which they reached end of life; the breakdown rate of these machines; the productive hours lost...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (8 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 896. To ask the Minister for Health if the main CT scanner for radiation oncology at St. Luke’s is within or beyond its end of life; if there is a concern whether this machine will not be operational if it is turned off, and as such if it is left turned on 24 hours a day; her plans for replacing all equipment at St. Luke’s which is beyond or nearing end of life; the budgetary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 897. To ask the Minister for Health the extent and cost of radiation therapy outsourcing to private providers, by hospital, in tabular form; and the details of total payments to private providers per instance of service provided. [37937/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 348. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1495 of 10 June 2025, the breakdown of weekly and weekend activity, by ordinary rostered hours compared to extra-contractual hours funded via NTPF or other insourcing funding streams, in tabular form. [36726/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all acute hospital-related NTPF spending for the period 2020 to ##2025, inclusive, by spending type by hospital, and by year, in tabular form. [36731/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: I wish to touch first on the CHI report because this was the first this committee heard of extremely serious issues regarding funding for the NTPF. In fact, it has led to this session where we can now discuss this report the HSE has done, which is a much deeper dive into insourcing and outsourcing. CHI says the HSE had sight of that report in March 2022. Is this the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: Given the seriousness of what was in that report, is it Mr. Gloster's contention that the HSE should have been made aware of the existence of the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: Okay. I will come to some of the issues. Is it also fair to say as well that in this report Mr. Gloster has submitted to the Minister and which was published yesterday, he was very clear that we now have an unsustainable reliance on what is called "insourcing"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster has said it is an overdependency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: It was about €90 million over those 27 months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: How many third-party companies have been identified as having been involved in that €90 million of spending?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: I just need the number.