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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: No. I understand that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I can also understand, however, the witnesses' position that there is a huge road to travel in relation to people with disabilities. "Give us a chance to have a bit of a life" was how it was put earlier. We have not given that chance to disabled people, and now they are being asked to give an opinion on assisted dying when we have not put the focus on assisted living. I completely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I have no difficulty with that and I do not believe that the question is being dodged. I have no difficulty with the answer being given. Notwithstanding all that, I was trying to understand whether the witnesses' organisations had had internal discussions in respect of a situation were this committee legislate for assisted dying if it brought about those safeguards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Dolan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Kearns.

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?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements. Last week, we had a very frustrating session with the Department of Health and the HSE. I will not go into the issues now. However, the substance of it was that it takes far too long to get anything done in healthcare. The delivery of some of the big picture reforms we are awaiting is moving at a very slow pace and there is no urgency...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: I have a real concern about some of these national strategies. The previous cardiovascular strategy was a very good one, as Mr. Macey rightly said. We see across mental health and in different areas that plans, visions and strategies are put in place and we all buy into them but they rarely get implemented in full. It is often piecemeal and funding is at the whim of a Minister in any given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: Before I address the representatives of Croí, I will make a number of points. The Irish Heart Foundation's opening statement refers to growing concern that 70 to 75 posts required under the strategy for 2024 will not be delivered. I would say it is a certainty they will not be delivered because there is no new additional funding. We had that clarified at this committee a number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: I ask Croí to answer the same question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: I have not seen the review and do not know what it is in it, although I know it is sitting on the Minister's desk. Even if it is published, it will make recommendations around specialist services in acute hospitals but that is it. All the other pieces of what would be a CVD strategy still need to be done. There is no indication yet that there is any substantial work done by the Department...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the new adaptation programme offered to overseas applicants by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54265/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: 307. To ask the Minister for Health his views on concerns expressed in relation to assessment processes undertaken by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54266/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: 309. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland from non-EU applicants, by country of training and in tabular for each year from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54267/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: 310. To ask the Minister for Health the number of decision letters issued by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland to non-EU applicants, by country of training and in tabular form for each year from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54268/23]